John Michael McDonagh is back with War on Everyone, which seems to be taking the title pretty darn literally as he tears up the screen.

There was no joy for the Irish women on the third day of the IAAF World Championships in Beijing with Tori Pena, Michelle Finn, Sara Treacy and Kerry O’Flaherty missing out on qualification in their respective events.

The actress died of natural causes after a brief illness.

Fionnuala Britton sprinted to the Women’s 5,000 metre title at today’s Glo Health Senior track and field championships in Santry stadium.

Usain Bolt lit up Moscow in the same manner as the real lightning bolts in the Russian skies as the mercurial Jamaican claimed his fourth global 100m title in the Luzhniki rain this evening.

Athletics Ireland have announced a hugely inexperienced squad for the upcoming World Championships.

Kelly Proper was the star of the Woodies DIY national track and field championships taking three gold medals in Santry Stadium.

Ireland are well on course to retaining League One status the European team championships, held in Dublin today.

At least six people have been killed and 18 others injured in mudslides triggered by heavy rain in a gold-mining community in southern Ecuador, officials said.

Writer-director David Ayer evidently believes that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Set in South Central, LA, End of Watch (16s) is a ‘ride-along’ with LAPD cops in one of America’s most notorious districts.

Robert Heffernan embarks on the first leg of an Olympic double today when he lines up for the men’s 20k walk before embarking on a new Olympic experience in the 50k walk next Saturday.

Some of the most beautiful people on the planet will compete at the Olympics. Larry Ryan rates the top five men and women

Another sensational day in Helsinki has seen three Irish athletes qualify for finals at the European Athletics Championships.

The US Secret Service sex scandal has spawned X-rated jokes, inspired a spicy song set to a local Caribbean beat, and made an unlikely celebrity of a 42-year-old taxi driver who lives with his mother and now seems to be in hiding.

Tori Pena has become the first Irish pole vaulter to qualify for an Olympic Games.

Tori Pena has become the first Irish pole vaulter in athletics history to qualify for an Olympic Games.

Rio Ferdinand has been named as skipper as Alex Ferguson makes seven changes to his Manchester United starting line-up for tonight’s Champions League encounter with Otelul Galati at Old Trafford.

Joanne Cuddihy bowed out of the World Championships after false starting in her 400 metres semi-finals in Daegu.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's mistress' ex-husband thought he had fathered their child.

Ireland's Mary Cullen was a notable absentee from today's 3000 metres heats at the European Indoor Championships in Paris.

Tuesday night: I’m locked in a bathroom, behind a door with a faulty lock. Forty-five minutes into the ordeal I’m eating toothpaste and have promoted a rubber ducky to head of communications.

The Chilean miner who jogged in the tunnels while trapped underground not only will attend Sunday’s New York City Marathon – he wants to run it.

The Chilean miners began leaving hospital today and got a taste of their new lives outside the doors – a swarm of reporters, TV producers, publicity agents and even football teams desperate for a piece of their story.

Tori Pena made a winning debut at the Woodie's DIY National Senior Track & Field Championships today, breaking the women's pole vault record by clearing 4.15 metres.

The Phil Spector murder trial erupted in intense arguments outside the jury’s presence today over whether the defence can introduce a diary written by gunshot victim Lana Clarkson in which she wrote of her visions of a dead actress, depression over her acting career and fascination with guns.

THE barrel of a gun may have been forced into actress Lana Clarkson’s mouth, bruising her tongue before she was fatally shot, a coroner has testified in music producer Phil Spector’s murder trial.

The barrel of a gun may have been forced into actress Lana Clarkson’s mouth, bruising her tongue before the gunshot that killed her, a coroner said today in record producer Phil Spector’s murder trial.

One of controversial director Stone’s least political films and one of his best tells the true story of John McLoughlin (Cage) and William J. Jimeno (Pena), two of the last survivors of the World Trade Center attack.

Villarreal 0 Arsenal 0 (agg: 0-1)

Sol Campbell returned to the heart of the Arsenal defence for tonight’s crunch encounter with Villarreal as the Gunners look to book their place in the Champions League.

Villarreal 1 Inter Milan 0 (Agg: 2-2)

Inter Milan 2 Villareal 1

Rangers 2 Villarreal 2

A Colombian councillor has today outraged local priests by suggesting a law to ensure everyone in his town aged 14 and above carries a condom to prevent pregnancy and disease.

Manchester United’s Champions League campaign faces being plunged into total darkness at the Stadium of Light next month.

Man Utd: Van der Sar, Brown, Ferdinand, Silvestre, O’Shea, Fletcher, Smith, Scholes, Ronaldo, Rooney, van Nistelrooy. Subs: Howard, Neville, Saha, Park, Richardson, Pique, Rossi.

Cristiano Ronaldo put his personal grief to one side and stepped back into the heat of Champions League battle for Manchester United tonight.

Authorities are trying to determine why a gunman fatally shot two Wal-Mart employees gathering shopping trolleys in the car park of one of the retail stores in suburban Phoenix, USA.

Michael Pena, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Maria Bello have been added to the cast of Oliver Stone’s forthcoming film about the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York.

A Los Angeles police commander today defended the actions of officers who killed a young girl in a shoot-out with her father, one of three stand-offs in the past nine months in which officers killed suspects holding hostages.