Eli Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career and earned film immortality as a conniving, quick-on-the-draw bandit in the classic western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, has died.

Ardagh Group has bought the US-based Leone Industries from the Leone family.

The Spaghetti Western Orchestra recreate the soundtracks of Italy’s legendary film composer, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Wall Street retreated today as continuing violence in the Middle East reminded investors that the market could face problems beyond the recession.

A woman with a history of mental illness walked her young niece and nephew into oncoming traffic to commit a double-murder suicide, prosecutors said today.

Sister Leonella, a nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in volatile regions of Africa, used to joke that there was a bullet with her name engraved on it in Somalia. When the bullet came, she used her last breaths to forgive those responsible.

Stocks rose today after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan delivered an upbeat assessment of the economy and Wall Street focused on the solid earnings reported by a growing number of companies.

Wall Street surged higher for the third trading session in a row today as stocks gained momentum from a benign reading of consumer inflation.

Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns helped reinvent a tired genre and introduce the world to Clint Eastwood, the Man With No Name. — Fistful of Dollars SE and For a Few Dollars More SE form part of the famed Eastwood/Leone trilogy (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was the third) and are well worth adding to your collection.

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is getting better, badder and uglier, with 14 minutes of newly-restored footage.

A US Forest Service ranger credited with reporting a fire that has blackened nearly 103,000 acres has been charged with starting the blaze.

The opening ceremony of the World Athletics Championships was followed by the men’s marathon which was won by Gezahenge Abera of Ethiopia in a time of two hours, 12 minutes and 42 seconds.