Starvation, poverty, flooding, heatwaves, droughts, war and disease are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts.

A leaden cloak of responsibility lies on the shoulders of UN scientists as they finalise the first volume of a huge report that will give the world the most detailed picture yet of climate change.

Actor Dennis Farina, a former Chicago policeman who played a TV cop on Law & Order during his wide-ranging career, has died at the age of 69.

Six nations have started talks with Iran in an attempt to satisfy both Tehran’s demands for international recognition of its right to advanced nuclear technology and world concerns that the Islamic Republic wants to misuse that expertise to make atomic arms.

Brace yourself for the boxing analogies.

London and Paris are seeking to lift an EU embargo to enable them to arm Syrian rebels, said the French foreign minister.

Chris Hemsworth has signed up for Michael Mann's new film.

Australian duo Dead Can Dance have ended a long silence by recording their new album Anastasis in Ireland, says Ed Power

The verdict is in: Global warming is real and greenhouse-gas emissions from human activity are the main cause.

US horse racing series 'Luck' has been axed by HBO chiefs after a third thoroughbred died during the making of the drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte.

21 Jump Street is the latest TV show reworked for cinema, but trading on nostalgia has a history of mixed success, says Paula Burns

Causeway CS had to battle a spirited Hazelwood College’s challenge at a blustery Tournafulla yesterday.

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Michael Mann is set to direct 'The Big Stone Grid'.

Birdsong, BBC One, tomorrow

Iran says it has proposed a new round of talks on its nuclear programme with six world powers that have been trying for years to persuade Tehran to freeze aspects of its atomic work that could provide a possible pathway to weapons production.

Thousands more emails from the university at the centre of the “climategate” row over global warming science two years ago appear to have been posted online today.

'Pirates Of The Caribbean' star Naomie Harris has confirmed she is in the running for the role of Bond girl in the next 007 movie.

DRAMA at the end of this cracking Harty Cup third round group game in Ballybrown yesterday, fortunes swaying first one way and then the other, a precious quarter-final berth at stake.

FORMER European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy shot into the spotlight across Europe because he and 16 of his former colleagues were still being paid by Brussels even though they are in new jobs.

EU citizens can try to change a law or introduce a new one by gathering just a million signatures, including a minimum of 9,010 from Ireland.

Matt Damon thrilled restaurant staff by leaving a $400 (€300) tip.

Stephen Soderbergh has compared Matt Damon to screen legend Jack Lemmon.

Writer-director Michael Mann’s film is a biopic of American Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger and his team of men who operated on the fringes of the law.

'Public Enemies' director Michael Mann insists Christian Bale - who has been described as "intense" by several former co-stars - was the perfect person to take on the role of detective Melvin Purvis in his latest movie.

A glorious modernisation of all those classic gangster films from Warner … honed to perfection by the period detail, the music, the atmosphere and the performances into one of the best films of the year.

WHEN we first meet happy loving couple Julien (Vincent Lindon) and Lisa (Diane Kruger) in Anything For Her (France/15A/96mins), they are in a passionate embrace in the elevator up to their apartment, where their young son and a babysitter awaits.

NATIONAL state aid for each farmer affected by the pork crisis, of up to €7,500 over three years, or up to 100% compensation — if it can be establish the crisis is an exceptional occurrence — was all the EU could offer Tuesday.

TEMPERATURES in the northern hemisphere have been warmer in the past decade than at any time in the past 1,300 years, researchers said yesterday.

THE European Commission said it is largely up to national governments to monitor supermarkets, and take action where competition rules are broken by engineering-agreed, food-price hikes.

Michael Mann goes into Saudi Arabia all guns blazing in ‘The Kingdom’ (Universal, €24.99). Well, Mann is behind the camera, and it’s Jamie Foxx who does the shooting.

Climate-change critics complain they have been kept out of the international debate by mainstream scientists who dismiss them as oil industry lobbyists or lunatics.

THE Hollywood writers strike has forced producers to postpone work on the Tom Hanks movie Angels and Demons, a prequel to the worldwide blockbuster The Da Vinci Code.

THE European Parliament has voted by an overwhelming majority to investigate retailers’ responses to global food price hikes.

Robert De Niro is returning to his Mafia-character roots with acclaimed director Michael Mann.

Kind hearted Robert De Niro has spent time in jail offering help to prison convicts.

Tests will reveal today if a vet involved in the bird flu outbreak in England who is suffering from a mild respiratory illness has caught a potentially deadly virus.

IRELAND and other EU member states were told yesterday by veterinary experts to tighten protection measures against the H5N1 virus.

EU regulators said they had received more documents from Microsoft Corp. by a today deadline but had not yet made any decision to levy new fines.

Hollywood heartthrobs Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx will make an appearance on the red carpet for the European premiere of Miami Vice tonight.

European Union foreign ministers will hold special talks on Tuesday to discuss efforts to end the conflict in Lebanon, diplomats said today.

Oscar winner Jamie Foxx spent two years trying to persuade director Michael Mann to make a big screen version of 1980s TV series Miami Vice.

It has been 2,000 years and possibly much longer since the Earth has run such a fever.