USA: A judge has dismissed charges against a woman who threw uncooked bacon and sausage inside a police station while saying she was there to “feed the piggies”.

Philippa Gregory

“Oh shut up, Baldrick – you’d laugh at a Shakespeare comedy.”

CHINA: An actor’s apology to his actress wife following rumours of his infidelity has set a record for comments and retweets on China’s version of Twitter.

SOUTH KOREA: With a click on a smartphone, the experimental “Armadillo-T” electric car will park itself and fold nearly in half, freeing up space in crowded cities.

A little over a week after the 2005 All-Ireland football final, this writer received an email from a fairly irate Kerry supporter.

Patrick Moy in the title role of Richard II.

There will be no grand tomb marking the final resting place of King Richard III, cathedral chiefs say.

The living descendants of Richard III want him reburied in York.

Richard III’s remains may have been discovered in a car park in Leicester earlier this week but Owen Farrell would do well to pay greater heed to Shakespeare’s Henry IV ahead of England’s visit to Dublin this weekend.

You've seen the 3D reconstruction of the head of Richard III, right?

He wore the English crown, but he ended up defeated, humiliated, and reviled.

The confirmation yesterday that a skeleton found under a car park in Leicester is that of Richard III is an indication of how far the science of DNA and its power as an investigative tool has advanced.

The body of a man found buried beneath a council car park is almost certainly that of the last Plantagenet King of England, Richard III, according to academics.

Over the past few weeks the very worst characteristics of Irish political practice have dominated the public square.

'The Hobbit' star Ian McKellen is to receive an honorary degree from the University of Ulster.

The Kingmaker’s Daughter

Galway Arts Festival is a wild fortnight of theatre, music and comedy, says Carl Dixon

Kevin Spacey is set to portray Richard III in an upcoming production directed by Sam Mendes.

PHILIPPA GREGORY is best known for The Other Boleyn Girl, her Tudor novel that spawned both a TV series and the 2008 film starring Scarlett Johansson.

Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia was heckled by Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey during a recent music industry gig.

Al Pacino launched his big screen version of The Merchant of Venice today and called for more of Shakespeare’s plays to be given the movie treatment.