Next week, Harper Lee will break a 55-year silence when she publishes her second ever book. Marjorie Brennan still finds inspiration in ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ and Harper Lee herself after all these years

The US Supreme Court yesterday allowed Barclays to claim about $4bn (€3.6bn) of disputed assets as part of its hurried purchase of much of Lehman Brothers Holdings’ brokerage unit at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.

Renowned American actress Laura Dern is the latest movie personality to become enraptured by the rugged grandeur of the Dingle Peninsula and the earthy charm of its people.

Forget Peter Piper and his Peck of Pickled Pepper – psychologists have come up with what may be the world’s most frustrating tongue twister.

MILEY Cyrus’s eyes are closed, her mouth gaping open as her hands grab at her crotch. The Lolita pose, the harsh, unforgiving lighting, the blank white background; it could only be the photography of Terry Richardson.

A former US ambassador aboard a Gaza aid ship seized by Israeli commandos is on his way home.

A UK Conservative Party councillor lost his seat on the draw of a playing card after a tie in a local election in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England.

BRANDO, Wayne, Peck and McQueen had it, Streep Binoche and Hackman have it. Paul Newman had it in spades.

Lehman Brothers in Europe has asked its US counterpart to give back more than $US8bn (€5.5bn) that it says was trapped when its holding company filed for bankruptcy protection in New York a week ago.

TO be grateful for the simple things — that’s the philosophy of acclaimed actor Gabriel Byrne who says he’s trying to be happier in the second half of his life than he was in the first.

This is a terrific coming-of-age story, with both the main characters – a troubled teenager and a slightly wacky psychologist – facing up to who they are.

The late Hollywood legend Gregory Peck is to be honoured at the Dingle Film Festival in September.

A woman who was in a car chased by a drunken Lindsay Lohan before the actress was arrested says the incident caused emotional trauma and cost the woman her job and thousands of dollars in doctors' bills.

SOCIAL networking site, Facebook, popular with students in Ireland and Britain has been valued at $6 billion (€4.3bn) by influential analyst Robert Peck.

The man whose foot Lindsay Lohan drove over as she left a party in pursuit of a former assistant is threatening to sue the actress.

Spy planes that Iran claims to have shot down over its territory were not operated by the US Air Force, a top American general said today.

While the US Army ordered its Louisiana-based troops to stay and fight in Iraq, the Air Force said today it would send 300 airmen home from Iraq and Afghanistan to handle emergencies on a Mississippi air base devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Actor Brock Peters, best known for his heartbreaking performance as the black man falsely accused of rape in the American movie To Kill A Mockingbird, has died at his home after battling pancreatic cancer.

One Irish film-maker was particularly saddened by the death of the great Gregory Peck.

SUPERSTARS Michael Jackson, Harrison Ford and Lauren Bacall were among 3,000 friends, family and fans who bade an emotional farewell to Hollywood legend Gregory Peck.

THE death of screen legend Gregory Peck, this month voted the top movie hero of all time, was being mourned in Kerry last night where the star was remembered with fondness by many living relatives.

GREGORY PECK, the handsome movie star whose long career included such classics as Roman Holiday, Spellbound and his Academy Award-winner, To Kill a Mockingbird, died yesterday. He was 87.

Gregory Peck, the handsome movie star whose long career included such classics as Roman Holiday, Spellbound and his Academy Award winner To Kill A Mockingbird, has died, a spokesman said tonight. He was 87.