We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

The creed that freedom and the rule of law are inextricable has formed the backbone of democratic theory at least since the time of Cicero, writes Vittorio Bufacchi.

EGYPT’S top archaeologist made his version of a sales pitch yesterday, presenting 22 coins, 10 mummies, and a fragment of a mask with a cleft chin as evidence that the discovery of the lost tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra is at hand.

Hugh Jackman has pulled out of Roman epic 'Cleo' and will no longer play Catherine Zeta-Jones' lover in the big-budget 3-D musical.