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When Independence Day was released in 1996 the world was crying out for a sequel to what was the greatest summer blockbuster ever released.

THIS latest work of fiction by the West Indies-born writer and Yale professor is as much a personal journey of discovery as it is a literary gem.

'The Help' star Viola Davis "prayed" for a husband weeks before she met Julius Tennon.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are set to team up for a sequel to 'Twins'.

Soprano Ruby Hughes is among the headline acts at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival this summer, writes Tina O’Sullivan

ACTOR Tony Curtis’s life could have come straight from one of his Hollywood scripts: rising from the streets of the Bronx to become a matinee idol who boasted of sleeping with 1,000 women.

IT’S AN indication of what an instant hit Federico ‘Kiko’ Macheda has been with Reds that we are already scrambling about trying to knock up a song or two for him.

Veteran actor Tony Curtis credits his sixth wife with dragging him back from the brink after a bout of pneumonia left him near death.

A Lithuanian woman was gang-raped, drugged and told she would be sold into prostitution during an ordeal, a court heard today.

Wigan striker Julius Aghahowa has signed a three-year deal with Turkish club Kayserispor.

Historians will today seek the release of US grand jury records in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whose espionage trial for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union became a defining moment in the Cold War.

Southern Vic heads the 47 initial entries for the Ellen Construction Thyestes Handicap Chase at Gowran Park on January 25.

HEATHER Mills-McCartney raised the stakes in her divorce from Paul McCartney yesterday by hiring the solicitor of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Heather Mills-McCartney raised the stakes in her divorce from Paul McCartney today by hiring the solicitor of Diana, Princess of Wales.

A HISTORIC First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays was yesterday snapped up by a book dealer for €4 million (£2.8m) at auction.

THE progressive Celestial Wave and Nina Carberry proved an irresistible combination in the Dawn Omega Milk EBF Mares Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

A follower of Osama bin Laden received life in prison without parole for the deadly bombing of the US Embassy in Kenya after a New York jury was deadlocked amid concerns that imposing a death penalty would create a martyr.