Eric Clapton has paid tribute to legendary blues musician BB King, who has died aged 89.

An unauthorised biography of Mick Jagger, writes David Kernek, is a must-read for fans, but it doesn’t provide a clue to the central Jagger puzzle

Three students have lost a High Court challenge against cuts of around 60% to their maintenance grants.

The High Court is to rule in a case of three students challenging cuts to their maintenance grants.

A US town is being stalked by a renegade grey squirrel.

IT was a wonderful weekend for the Kerry clubs in the opening round of the Martin O’Sullivan Cup.

A gang of police impersonators from the Dominican Republic abducted and tortured cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multi-million-dollar stashes by holding their families hostage or threatening to squeeze their testicles with pliers, US authorities said.

The following is the Leinster under-19 team to play Munster in the Inter-provincial Championship at Musgrave Park on Sunday:

The Leinster U-19 team to face Ulster in Greystones RFC on Saturday (KO: 2pm) has been named.

Blue Ocean Wireless (”BOW”), an Irish company focused on delivering GSM communication capability for the merchant maritime sector, and Japan Radio Company (“JRC”), one of the world’s longest established companies in the field of marine electronics, today announced that JRC will provide BOW with its Fleet F33 terminal, the JUE-33, to connect BOW onboard equipment to the Inmarsat satellite system.

BANK of Scotland (Ireland) has acquired a 10% stake in Irish communications company Blue Ocean Wireless for €3.6 million ($4.8m).

Little Richard's 1956 hit Tutti Frutti has topped a new UK poll to find the 100 Records That Changed The World.

Ireland U18 12 England U18 23, Burnbrae RFC, Glasgow

The Ireland Schools team management has made several changes from the team that defeated Italy 22-5 in the first game of the Six Nations Schools tournament for their next game against France.

The Ireland schools team defeated Italy 22-5 in the first game of the Schools tournament in Glasgow, Scotland.

The Ireland Schools Rugby international season began today with the announcement of the teams and replacements for the annual Irish Schools trial match between the Probables and Possibles selections.

A Kilkenny teenager reported missing this week has been found safe and well.

Gardaí are appealing for help from the public in tracing the whereabouts of a missing Kilkenny teenager.

David Bowie, blues pioneer Robert Johnson and the late comedian Richard Pryor are among recording artists who will receive lifetime achievement honours during next month’s Grammy Awards.

Irish music label Rubyworks has announced its first signing of 2005 in the shape of Irish jazz and bluesman Nigel Mooney.

EVERYONE dreams of winning the lotto, or at least of marrying money.

Michael Jackson says he is outraged by the way he is mocked in rapper Eminem’s recently-released video Just Lose It and has asked cable music stations to remove the video from their rotations.

The war of words has continued to rage as two contaminated ships from the US were given permission to dock in Britain.

Actor-singer Donovan Leitch sought the advice of his estranged father, 1960s folk singer Donovan, about portraying a British superstar singer in the play I Just Stopped By To See The Man.

Airport security workers found a loaded handgun stuffed inside a brown teddy bear that a nine-year-old boy was carrying on a trip home after his family’s Florida holiday.

Airport security workers found a loaded handgun stuffed inside a brown teddy bear that a nine-year-old boy was carrying on a trip home after his family’s Florida holiday.

Sean Combs – the hip-hop figure also known as P Diddy – is in talks to star in a film biography of 1930s blues legend Robert Johnson.

Many of the world’s richest people saw their fortunes shrink again during the last year, but US chat show queen Oprah Winfrey’s grew enough to put her on Forbes magazine’s list of billionaires – the first black woman to join the ranks.

LAST week’s terror attacks in Kenya have highlighted another threat — surface-to-air missiles fired at commercial airplanes — and leaders of the US Senate Intelligence Committee say they anticipate more terrorist action ahead.

THE Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to allow commercial pilots to carry weapons in the cockpit after the Bush administration dropped its opposition to the idea.

Tipperary rally driver Donie Keating and his co-driver Nicky Condon are leading the London-Sahara-London World Cup Rally after four days of driving.