Chuck Feeney, the grandson of an immigrant from Fermanagh, is not a household name.

Charles Dunstone, the founder of Carphone Warehouse and TalkTalk, has become the UK's first digital billionaire, according to figures released today.

Families of Virginia Tech shooting victims reacted with fury after it emerged that the gunman's missing mental health records were found at the home of a former campus clinic chief more than two years after the incident.

FOR centuries, many of the owners of estates and large gardens in this country were compulsive and competitive collectors of exotic trees. Many of these collections still survive. I have a passionate interest in trees and for somebody like me, visiting one of these collections for the first time is an exciting event.

A BRITISH billionaire’s 14 million high speed superyacht yesterday became the first monohull to sail across the Atlantic in less than seven days.

A 70-YEAR-OLD British billionaire set sail from New York yesterday in a bid to break the world speed record for crossing the Atlantic by sea.

An older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams was shot dead early today following a dispute in suburban Los Angeles, authorities said.