The US is abandoning its goal of training a new force of moderate Syrian rebels and will focus on equipping, arming and supporting established groups already fighting Islamic State (IS) inside Syria, officials said.

Damn you, internet! Sometimes I don’t know whether what you’re giving me is real or whether it’s being dreamed up by two stoned teenagers chained to a PC in someone’s basement, wondering whether to get the Domino’s deep-dish spectacular or not...

Tune in to RTE One at 8pm tonight for the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest live from the B&W Hallerne in Copenhagen.

Regularly scoffed at by fellow broadcasters for his allegedly non-aggressive style, David Frost invariably almost always extracted more intriguing information and revealing reactions.

Scientists discover marine mammal's love for 'Boogie Wonderland, by Earth, Wind and Fire.

You may have seen some of your friends adding the logo supporting marriage equality to their Facebook pages recently.

Yes. Jonathan Miller muses on life at the Everyman in Cork, says Alan O’Riordan

Only time will tell if the quick divorce settlement reached between Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise lasts longer than their five-year marriage.

Christie Brinkley has accused her ex-husband of trying to "destroy" her happiness.

WE’VE reached the moment that the Romans celebrated with the Festival of Janus, the two-faced god who managed to look both forwards and backwards at once.

SO NOW the penny is beginning to drop. From the start, this season had ‘CONSOLIDATION’ branded into its wrinkled flesh and we’ve seen little to change that perception.

Model Christie Brinkley and her former husband today settled their post-divorce spat before a New York judge.

Family and friends of comedian Peter Cook gathered today to unveil a plaque in his honour.

The highly public divorce battle between supermodel Christie Brinkley and her ex-husband may be settled, but the couple’s bitter dispute is heating up again with yet another court fight.

Christie Brinkley has vowed never to remarry after reaching a settlement in her high-drama divorce trial with Peter Cook.

A SETTLEMENT has ended supermodel Christie Brinkley’s nasty divorce trial.

CHRISTIE BRINKLEY says the day she learned her husband was having an affair with a teenager was the day “my life as I knew it had vanished”.

AS a Canadian resident for most of the year, I have always replied to those who asked for a postal code in the Irish Republic: “Oh, the Irish mail men know where the addresses are”.

“IT being the weekend and all,” purred the commander-in-chief down the blower, “we’d like another of your Letter from Germany yokes, preferably with a stamp attached this time as proof that you’re actually out there and not, as some of us suspect, watching it all in a pub in Kinnegad, only ever putting down your drink in order to file another massive mileage claim.”

Little Britain star David Walliams said he could “never get bored” with winning awards as the programme pulled off a Bafta double.

Cult 70s hit Is This The Way To Amarillo? Is released today, threatening to carry the almost-forgotten singer Tony Christie to number one in the charts, and raising more money for Comic Relief in the UK.

Late legendary comic Peter Cook has been crowned the world's greatest comedian by fellow humourists in Britain and America.

AS Peter Cook might put it, life can be a cruel mistress. Just ask Richard Dunne.

Lovely former model Christie Brinkley and architect hubby Peter Cook have paid $7.5m for a new home in the Hamptons, the exclusive beach neighbourhood outside New York City.

BBC2 is celebrating its 40th birthday – and the BBC Radio Times has compiled a list of 40 landmark shows which have kept viewers tuning in.

Notorious British rapist Peter Cook has died in prison of natural causes, it was announced this evening.

There are fears now that up to 50,000 people may have been killed in the devatstating earthquake in the Iranian city of Bam.

Preparations were under way in a picturesque village today for the visit of US President George Bush to Tony Blair’s constituency.