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Sony Pictures Entertainment has told US cinemas they can cancel plans to show The Interview, hours after hackers invoking the memory of the September 11 2001 terror attacks issued ominous threats against film-goers and patrons of the comedy.

Two window cleaners who were stranded 69 storeys above street level when their cradle partially collapsed have been rescued.

USA: A tree planted in Los Angeles to honour former Beatle George Harrison has been killed — by beetles.

ENGLAND: Half of people in Britain do not know the First World War began 100 years ago next month, according to The Daily Star.

A four-year-old girl was left for at least 12 hours in a house with the bodies of her mother and sister after her “jealous and controlling” father killed them in an “appalling” axe and knife attack, a British court has heard.

IT WAS as good a Patriots Day, as good a marathon day, as any; dry and seasonably warm but not hot like last year.

A man police believe to be the fugitive ex-Los Angeles officer wanted for three killings was barricaded inside a burning cabin today after a shootout in a California mountain town that left one deputy dead and another wounded.

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Presenter Richard Hammond has been nominated for a Bafta for his Blast Lab children’s TV show.

The US Justice Department was considering whether to prosecute a Somali pirate in Washington, New York or Kenya, following the rescue of a US hostage and the arrest of his only surviving captor.

SHANE LOWRY will be looking to equal Rory McIlroy’s feat and retain the Radisson-Blue West of Ireland title when the championship gets underway at Rosses Point this morning.

Wall Street closed out a difficult week with a mixed finish tonight after the Federal Reserve injected billions of dollars into the banking system to calm markets torn by worries about evaporating credit.

US stocks finished flat today after the Federal Reserve offered a cautious reading on inflation but said the economy appeared to be growing at a “moderate” pace.

Extreme weather made life miserable from one end of the United States to the other, with people forced out of their homes by wildfires and major flooding.

Stocks shot higher today after the Federal Reserve answered two of Wall Street’s major concerns, indicating that the economy remains healthy and that inflation pressures are easing.

CORK’S city manager has moved to diffuse the controversy over a €1 city centre property deal ahead of a crucial vote tonight.

Glanbia plc has today announced four changes to its board of directors.

FINANCIAL guru Eddie Hobbs and All-Ireland hurling hero Seán Óg Ó hAilpín have been installed by the bookies as joint favourites to lift the title of Cork Person of the Year, at the annual awards ceremony which will be held in the Rochestown Park Hotel today.

The United States does not plan to raise the security threat level because of a new tape of Osama bin Laden on which he says al Qaida is planning attacks.

A collection of unique personalised coffins featuring a canal boat, a sledge, a skateboard and a box kite is to go on display in Cork.