SATURDAY

Not for the first time, an air of dissatisfaction hangs over Russia.

Lad band Loveable Rogues and schoolgirl singer Molly Rainford have become the latest acts to win a place in the 'Britain’s Got Talent' final.

THE lives of parents typically orbit around their children, but those roles could be about switch — one lucky Irish child is to have a satellite named after them.

Elia Barceló Translated by David Frye

IN Cork and Dublin they came in their thousands with candles, flowers and solemn prayers.

A MILLIONAIRE financier being sued by a former employee for discrimination yesterday told a tribunal he never used prostitutes.

IRELAND is in the midst of a baby boom, with the highest number of births in more than a century.

Ireland is experiencing a baby boom with the highest number of births in more than a century, it was revealed today.

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin led mourners paying tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn as the author, dissident and patriot lay in state inside the Russian Academy of Sciences today.

The funeral of the poisoned Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko was being held at Highgate Cemetery in north London today.

Grandmother Svetlana Atamaniuk sobbed and moaned as she paced the pavement opposite Lviv’s central morgue, overflowing with bodies from the Ukrainian air show crash that killed 83.