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Angel Olsen made many of the media’s ‘best of’ lists last year with her incredible album, Woman. She tells Ed Power why she’s looking forward to playing it in Ireland

CRH is expected to make another large-scale acquisition some time next year as its cash generation improves and debt levels continue to decline.

Florence Foster Jenkins 4/5

An American woman found dead in her Florence apartment had been brutally beaten and strangled, Italian prosecutors said.

Danish households, the world’s most indebted, are refusing to take on more credit.

It was the year when the most expensive bag ever sold - a Hermes Birkin for a whooping €200,000. Corina Gaffey looks at our obsession with designer arm candy    

Quarterback Cam Newton threw three touchdown passes and his Carolina Panthers pummelled the Atlanta Falcons 38-0 on Sunday to earn an NFL playoff first-round bye.

This week’s 400-page report from the Garda Inspectorate follows a similar 490-page report last

Danskjavlar is an affectionate Swedish expression that can best be translated as ‘Bloody Danes’. It was used quite a lot after last month’s qualifying draw pitted Sweden against Denmark in the Euro 2016 play-off, with the first leg tonight in Stockholm.

With lectures in full flight and assignments starting to trickle in, there also comes the perennial ’what am I going to wear to college?’ Paula Burns has done her homework and picked key looks this Autumn that student budgets can stretch to.

The newly created European cement giant, LafargeHolcim formally launched yesterday, with the immediately stated aims of full merger integration by the end of next year, and cost savings of €1.4bn being achieved by the end of 2018.

In the aftermath of the balcony collapse in which six Irish students died on Tuesday, attention in Berkeley has now turned to the construction of the Library Gardens apartment complex at the centre of the tragedy.

The superhero team must fight together to take on a threat to the entire Earth.

Former Tour player Dan Olsen alleged in an interview on US radio station 730AM The Game on Friday that Woods was serving a drugs ban.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wowed New York as they ended their US Tour by attending a glamourous fundraising event in aid of their old university.

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino believes Sergio Aguero is the best out-and-out striker in the world, likening the Argentinian’s genius to Mozart.

SLOWLY and stealthily being a geek has become positively fashionable — flat shoes, large glasses, sensible clothes and minimal grooming have entered the contemporary style lexicon as badges of cool.

Two senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge were sentenced to life in prison on war crimes charges for their role in Cambodia’s terror period in the 1970s.

Bryan Cranston thinks Godzilla would be "horrible" at making crystal meth.

Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston revealed he hesitated about appearing in Godzilla because he had doubts about the script.

Colette Sheridan talk to writer Billy Keane about his latest novel and his life’s influences

Thanks to Angelina Jolie's BAFTA tux, androgyny is back. Get ready for masculine tailoring, cropped hair and brogues.

From Justin Bieber to Lindsay Lohan, what is it about child stardom that seems to result in controversy?

Ashley Olsen didn't have the time to continue her acting career working on her business, while her sister Mary-Kate quit over having no control over her movies.

WORLD CUP QUALIFIER GROUP C:

Perhaps it was Giovanni Trapattoni seemingly on his way to the sack that caused Faroe Islands Lars Olsen to downplay his side’s hopes before they hosted Ireland last October.

Lars Olsen has admitted it would be a sensation of epic proportions if the Faroe Islands ruined Robbie Keane’s party tomorrow night.

From Elizabeth Olsen, to Olivia Wilde - the best and worst of this week's red carpet fashion.

THE S/S 2013 Fashion Weeks were seeing double, with some of the biggest international names sending their models out twinned, two by two.

Faroe Islands boss Lars Olsen tip-toed diplomatically around the subject of Giovanni Trapattoni’s end-game when he fielded a series of questions on the subject ahead of tonight’s World Cup qualifier in Torshavn.

Faroe Island boss Lars Olsen has warned his players to expect a Republic of Ireland backlash as manager Giovanni Trapattoni fights to save his job.

It may have been dubbed ’Car-nasty’ in 1999, but Carnoustie appeared to be holding no fears for Dunhill Links pace-setter Branden Grace today.

Singer Lana del Rey is the latest star to promote a fashion brand. Annmarie O’Connor scales the highs and lows of celebrity collaborations.

THE FASTEST man in the world will tomorrow romp home to victory.

It wasn’t pretty but St Patrick’s Athletic did just enough last night to make it into the second qualifying round of the Europa League after Stephen O’Flynn’s extra-time goal.

A first-half goal from Christy Fagan was enough to get St Patrick’s Athletic off to a winning start in their Europa League First Qualifying Round First Leg tie against Icelandic side IBV Vestmannaeyjar at Richmond Park last night.

Seeing is deceiving. Look beyond the obvious and you might glimpse writer-director Rodrigo Cortes’s sleights of hand in this intriguing thriller, which follows two paranormal investigators as they debunk fraudulent mediums, mind readers and ghost hunters through the appliance of rigorous science.