Last week was a mixed one for former athletes, with Texas coursing through their veins.

US government prosecutors have forced a Mexican drug trafficker to turn over his stake in a planned prequel to Mel Gibson’s 2004 blockbuster 'The Passion Of The Christ'.

The Conversations exhibition at IMMA reflects on the relationship between photographers and their subjects, Carl Dixon reports.

“I’VE just been listening to a foaming-mouthed BBC reporter describe this past United month as “the perfect start”.

Boxing TV host Jim Rosenthal lost a legal bout with chef Heston Blumenthal today as a judge ruled he should not be refunded for a £1,300 (€1,550) meal which left him “disastrously” sick.

WITH one, highly ineffective swing of the boot, Carlos Tevez relieved Ronny Rosenthal of his unwanted place in the forward’s equivalent of Room 101.

The head of a private swimming club at the centre of a civil rights-style race row defended cancelling the memberships of dozens of minority children, saying it was for safety reasons.

David Bowie, Whoopi Goldberg, Fred Durst and director Doug Liman have all been named as jury members at the Tribeca Film Festival - which kicked off in New York on Wednesday.

Oil giant BP formally entered a guilty plea in a deal with US prosecutors over the deadly explosion at its Texas City plant in 2005.

IF REALITY television majors, these days, on the re-cycling of the second-rate nearly-famous, film is rediscovering people of rather different calibre.

An American Jesuit magazine has apologised after inadvertently publishing an advertisement for a Virgin Mary statue wrapped in a condom that a British artist intended as a protest against the church’s opposition to condom use.

Texas governor Rick Perry has commuted the death sentence of a Houston killer with an IQ estimated at 63 – a move required under a 2002 Supreme Court decision barring the execution of retarded inmates.

What about that sporting blunder by Christophe Dominici against Italy in the Six Nations? But what rivals does Dominici have in a long line of sporting blunders? Simon Lewis and Micheal Moynihan investigate.

The second alleged September 11 terrorist to face trial anywhere appeared in court today in Hamburg, Germany.

US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright plans to write her memoirs after she leaves public life later in the month.