Charlie Kaufman is back with a film called Anomalisa, and this stop motion marvel is setting itself up to be the best of the year

In 2010 Clarecastle GAA Club lost another promising young hurler to emigration. But Co Clare’s loss was Germany’s gain as Dean Power ended up in Munich as one of the stars of the city’s renowned Bavarian State Opera.

A Virgin Atlantic passenger plane “is preparing to implement a non-standard landing procedure at Gatwick airport” because of “a technical issue with one of the landing gears”, the airline said.

Katie Holmes greeted well-wishers in a black leather blazer and gold beaded heels as she became the latest celebrity to take a serious stab at fashion with her Holmes & Yang preview at New York Fashion Week.

AN Occupy Wall Street protester has landed a job... in an investment firm on Wall Street.

A US jury convicted five current and former police officers of gunning down people on a New Orleans bridge in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Take a very deep breath and concentrate. Kaufman brings us one of the most complex films of recent years, full of switching plots built on several layers, yet still a richly entertaining, thoughtful, funny-sad observation of the human condition.

SO Eugene Murphy (Letters, August 29) did not find my column headlined ‘Taxpayers fleeced and reputations ruined by false child abuse claims’ (August 22) to his taste.

The prince of pop art, Steve Kaufman, will pay his first visit to Ireland today.

A former assistant to legendary US artist Andy Warhol will preview his first Irish exhibition to a select guest list of art collectors tonight.

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An armed Palestinian man burst into the British Embassy in Tel Aviv today demanding political asylum, saying in a dramatic interview on live television that he would rather die than return to the West Bank.

BRITISH prime minister Tony Blair will sack Gordon Brown as chancellor of the exchequer if he wins the next general election, senior Labour MP Gerald Kaufman claimed yesterday.

THE lawyer defending a Disney World entertainer from charges of molestation earned his stripes yesterday.

Actor and director Mel Gibson’s biblical film The Passion of the Christ is “damagingly anti-Semitic”, Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the UK-based Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee, claimed today.

The BBC’s credibility was questioned tonight after Dr David Kelly was confirmed as the prime source for reports that intelligence on Iraq was “sexed up”.

US national security adviser Condoleezza Rice called Iraq's Saddam Hussein an "evil man" in a broadcast interview Thursday, saying he would wreak havoc on the world, if the West does nothing to stop him.