Scientist John O’Keefe, whose father hailed from Newmarket, Co Cork, and Norwegian married couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser, have won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the "inner GPS" that helps the brain navigate through the world.

Three scientists, including a Norwegian married couple, have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the “inner GPS” that helps the brain navigate through the world.

Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill compared her experience in the music business to the slavery her ancestors endured before a judge sentenced her to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1m (€763,110) in tax over the past decade.

Colorado prosecutors formally charged a former neuroscience graduate student with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder in the shooting rampage at the midnight showing of the new Batman movie.

Country singer Wynonna Judd has tied the knot.