Three suspects in a thwarted attack last week in the southern French city of Montpellier have been handed preliminary terrorism charges, Paris prosecutors said.

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Zayn Malik has said he would consider a One Direction reunion “if the time was right and that was the right thing to do”.

US authorities could soon be snooping on social media posts from would-be immigrants in a new effort to close security gaps in the country’s visa system.

US authorities could soon be snooping on social media posts from would-be immigrants in a new effort to close security gaps in the country's visa system.

A couple who massacred 14 people at a holiday party in California were discussing martyrdom online a year before they met in person and married, FBI director James Comey said.

Barack Obama has vowed that the United States will overcome a new phase of the terror trying to “poison the minds” of people around the world, as he sought to reassure Americans rocked by the attacks in Paris and California.

The Pakistani woman who joined her US-born husband in killing 14 people in a commando-style assault on his co-workers in California is at the centre of a massive FBI terrorism investigation, yet she remains shrouded in mystery.

Investigators in the US believe the woman who carried out Wednesday's gun attack in California with her husband had sworn allegiance to the so-called Islamic State.

With respect to Dr Malik’s letter in the Irish Examiner (November 17) may I suggest a lot less God and a bit more love as the way forward.

One Direction fans are gearing up for an emotional weekend as the band prepare to play what could be their final gig tonight.

Niall Horan and the other four members of boy band One Direction last year more than doubled their company’s cashpile to £42m (€57m).

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Reports that One Direction will break up next year have sparked a scramble for tickets for what looks like being their final concert.

Perrie Edwards said she is “heartbroken” after splitting from her former One Direction fiance Zayn Malik.

One Direction fans reacted with dismay to a report that band member Louis Tomlinson is to become a father.

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Here’s a quick look at the latest music, gig, film and entertainment news.

Zayn Malik has left One Direction, saying he wants the chance to be “a normal 22-year-old”.

One Direction star Zayn Malik has quit the boyband’s world tour after being “signed off with stress” and is returning to the UK.

She beat One Direction in the TV talent show, and is now taking on the songs of Billie Holiday, writes Ed Power

Zayn Malik walked off stage after falling ill during a gig.

Zayn Malik is reportedly ready to leave One Direction.

One Direction star Zayn Malik said he has been angered by a US TV host’s suggestion that drug use could have been a factor in the singer’s absence from promotional commitments.

MUSIC NEWS: Hozier is in Mitchelstown this weekend, and has also released a video of a duet with Karen Cowley on his single ‘In A Week’ that was recorded at Kilkenny Castle.

Malik, who was brought up a Muslim, posted the hashtag #freePalestine to his 13m followers yesterday, and it has already been shared more than 140,000 times.

Improvements in lifespans, education, and incomes are slowing due to natural disasters, misguided government policies, and worsening inequality in a world where the 85 richest people have as much wealth as the 3.5bn poorest, the UN said in its annual human development report.

Police say they have arrested a fifth suspect and are hunting for two others in the gang rape of two teenage cousins who were later found hanging from a tree this week in northern India.

One Direction fans rushed to the boyband’s defence after footage was published appearing to show two of them smoking cannabis.

One Direction fans rushed to the boyband's defence after footage was published appearing to show two of them smoking cannabis.

1D mania hit London as screaming fans greeted the chart-topping boyband at the world premiere of their film, One Direction: This Is Us.

1D mania hit London and Dublin, as chart-topping boyband One Direction attended the world premiere of their film, One Direction: This Is Us.

In America, the government fought back in the war against drugs by tightening federal policy so that anyone found in possession of narcotics could be persuaded to testify against friends in order to reduce their sentence.

Ireland fell agonisingly short of a first series win against a full-member nation following a two-wicket defeat to Pakistan in the second RSA Insurance one-day international in Dublin.

Pakistan blocked the head of an airline whose jet crashed near the capital from leaving the country as it began an investigation today into the country’s second major air disaster in less then two years.

Osama bin Laden’s three widows have been charged with illegally entering and living in Pakistan, the interior minister says.