TV personality and new mum Jennifer Maguire admits she was “a basket case” in the early weeks after bringing home now six-month-old baby Florence.

Two men and a woman have admitted involvement in an attack on a man who was found naked, bruised and battered in a taped-up wheelie bin in Co Antrim.

With her trademark big perm and dangling fag nowhere to be seen, RTÉ funnygirl Jennifer Maguire got hitched to long-term partner Lau Zamparelli at an intimate ceremony in Castle Leslie.

The parents of a Swansea City fan have spoken of their devastation after their son died watching his team on TV.

A man who was beaten and sealed inside a wheelie bin after a drink and drug-fuelled party that lasted for days looked like he had been tortured, a court in the North has heard.

Fired Apprentice hopeful Sophie Lau said her boardroom experience was so stressful she actually wanted to leave.

Glasgow’s Celtic Connections draws performers from all over the world for 18 days of 24-hour music, says Nicki ffrench Davis

Pope Benedict XVI pledged today to remember the millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust.

The managing director of the McDonald’s restaurant chain in Hong Kong has been charged with taking bribes from a corn supplier, the territory’s anti-corruption body said.

China today said it had charged a reporter for a Singapore newspaper with spying for rival Taiwan, four months after detaining him.

Married Open Water movie-makers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau have joined Petra Nemkova and Jet Li on the list of celebrity tsunami survivors.

Hong Kong heart-throb Andy Lau is fuming after discovering his ex-girlfriend Yu Ho-Yun is publishing a kiss-and-tell book about their former relationship.

In the new thriller “Open Water,” a couple scuba-diving far off the Bahamas surface after being submerged for 40 minutes to find themselves abandoned by their dive boat. The real panic sets in when sharks start circling.

Israel’s Chief Rabbi Meir Lau today urged Jews not to celebrate Christmas or New Year’s Day, warning that such observances threatened the identity of the Jewish state.

Share prices closed the morning slightly higher in tandem with the rise on Wall Street overnight but the market lacked a clear direction in the run-up to the Sept 11 anniversary as well as uncertainty over whether the US would lead a strike against Iraq, dealers said.