Generally regarded as one of Japan’s most important living writers, Yoko Ogawa has, over a 25-year career, produced a stellar body of work and won all of her country’s major literary honours.

The glory that was Tipperary, the grandeur that was Limerick.

When I hear the term, ‘The Gathering’, I can’t help thinking it means something Poe, Hitchcock, or King, might write about.

Cusack is suitably woebegone as the poverty-stricken Poe, the expression in his melancholy eyes constantly vacillating from depression to rage and perhaps even madness, and he gets strong support from Luke Evans as the dogged Detective Emmet Fields and Brendan Gleeson as the scenery-chewing Colonel Hamilton, father of Poe’s love interest, Emily (Alice Eve).

The bloodthirsty writings of Edgar Allan Poe give birth to a deranged serial killer in James McTeigue’s hack-and-slash thriller set on the streets of 19th century Baltimore.

FIRST a confession.

The Anthologist

A mystery man made the 58th consecutive visit to Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in Baltimore this morning and was watched by the largest group of onlookers ever, the event’s most faithful viewer said.

MARY CHENEY, the openly gay daughter of US Vice President Dick Cheney, is pregnant.

Mary Cheney, the openly gay daughter of US Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, is pregnant.

Mary Cheney, the openly gay daughter of US Vice President Dick Cheney and wife Lynne, is pregnant according to a published report.

Fernando Poe Jr, “Da King” of Philippine cinema who rallied millions of fans in a daring bid for the presidency earlier this year, has died after suffering a stroke and slipping into a coma.

Security forces in the Philippines were on red alert today as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared she had a new mandate to govern after the final election tally showed her winning by 1.1m votes.

A new “people power” revolt will erupt in the Philippines if movie star Fernando Poe Jr loses the presidential election through fraud, his party warned today – fighting words in a nation where popular protests have knocked two leaders out of office.

PHILIPPINE President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo took the lead in early election returns yesterday and a nationwide poll predicted she would win, but rumblings of trouble emerged as her movie star opponent said he believed he was being cheated.

Filipinos voted for president today amid high security and reports of scattered violence in a race pitting an incumbent who strongly backs the US war on terror against a film star whose best friend lost the job in disgrace three years ago.

A 42-year-old Louth man has been found guilty of the murder of a young German woman in Co Meath in 2001 at the Central Criminal court today.

Timothy Spall, who is best known for his roles in low-budget, British character-driven films, is gaining a high-profile in Hollywood through his appearances in three potential blockbusters.

A prominent Syrian historian said today that US and European Zionists prodded the Vatican into absolving Jews of responsibility for the death of Jesus and that the Roman Catholic church has fallen under Jewish influence.