Tim Roth was one of the old stalwarts Quentin Tarantino teamed up with for his upcoming western, The Hateful Eight, writes Helen Barlow

THROUGHOUT the 1920s and ’30s, the Austrian novelist, Joseph Roth, travelled extensively throughout Europe, leading a nomadic life, living in various hotels across the continent.

Birds living high in the mountains are better problem solvers and have more reliable memories than ones living lower down, according to research just published, writes Richard Collins.

A Spool of Blue Thread

MY DAUGHTER is sitting in the conservatory looking over my mother’s shoulder. My mother, who has come to visit along with my sister, sits beside my daughter on the sofa, reading.

The World Cup kicks off shortly in Brazil, with associated nonsense either starting soon or already well under way (exhibit A: Wayne Rooney’s faux outtrage, with the English media’s interest in him and his family).

With the survival of a species on the line, Cincinnati Zoo scientists are hoping to mate their lone female Sumatran rhino with her brother.

Ah, the late, late rethink. Bane of the columnist’s life. Last week yours truly had a tasty segment of his column nicely tucked away, simmering like a stew just beginning to brown as the flavours seep through.

There’s always a faint whiff of hypocrisy when Hollywood’s millionaires gather to make a movie about the pernicious evil that is money, but Arbitrage (15A) works hard to earn itself the right to a fair hearing.

Dublin’s film festival mixes star power with an impressive roster of movies, says Pádraic Killeen

Life-saving kidney exchange programmes and ways for schools to select students are just two practical applications of the market-matching theories for which US economists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the Nobel prize for economics yesterday.

Americans Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley have won the Nobel economics prize for research that helps explain the market processes when doctors are assigned to hospitals, students to schools and human organs for transplant to recipients.

The loss of patent on Lipitor looks set to cost up to 180 jobs at two Pfizer plants in Cork. Linda Johnson examines the success of the lucrative cholesterol lowering drug

Activists inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement say they will follow the world’s political and business elite to their annual Alpine retreat in Switzerland.

PHILIP ROTH, America’s most decorated living novelist, yesterday won the fourth Man Booker International Prize, but the award sank into controversy as one of the judges resigned in protest.

Philip Roth has won the Man Booker International Prize recognising a novelist’s body of work.

Peaches Geldof has reportedly split from her film director boyfriend.

Peter Mayle

THE Irish second-level education system needs to be geared towards producing people who will create future wealth and prosperity as we are now falling behind international standards, a forum was told yesterday.

Authorities in North Carolina have charged a woman with keeping the corpse of her elderly mother in their home for months.

Freddie Ljungberg has become the latest big-name player to head to North America, signing for Major League Soccer’s newest club the Seattle Sounders.

Be careful who you let into your home, they might not be as pleasant as they first seem.

Director Eli Roth has vowed to "hit the botox" after Lindsay Lohan rejected him for being too old.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian guru to the Beatles and millions of meditators, has died at his home in the Netherlands, a spokesman said tonight.

Star Wars was named as the most influential visual effects film of all time today.

IRELAND’S John Banville has been pitched against literary heavyweights Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and 13 other writers from around the world in the shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize.

The rumours were true. Van Halen will reunite with original singer David Lee Roth for a summer tour of North America.

AN ELDERLY priest yesterday acknowledged he was naked in saunas with former US congressman Mark Foley decades ago when the latter was a boy in Florida, but denied the two had sex.

In a widely expected vote, the UN General Assembly has approved a recommendation from its main budget committee to block reform proposals that would have given Secretary-General Kofi Annan more budget power.

Now that's a top-notch gathering of screen talent, and it shows in this off-centre drama that manages to deliver pathos and humour and characters we can relate to. Shepard plays a cowboy star whose sunset has long passed.

One of those films that should have been much, much better, given the promise of a confused woman (Moore) who reports a car hijack, a misswing son and, perhaps, more than she's prepared to reveal; a cop (Eldard) who goes OTT and closes down a Black neighbourhood in an attempt to trap the kidnapper, causing mounting racial tension; a good cop (Jackson) caught in the middle.

A film that was originally so gory it had to be toned down … though it’s still a chiller.

Israeli lawyer Arthur Roth lost his 15-year-old daughter Malki in a Jerusalem suicide blast. Kenneth Thompson’s mother died in the Oklahoma City bombing. Spanish journalist Irene Villa lost both legs in an Eta bombing 15 years ago.

Rain pounded Key West early today as Hurricane Wilma accelerated towards storm-weary Florida, threatening residents with 115mph winds, tornadoes and a surge of seawater that could flood the Keys and the state’s south-west coast.

Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola is to return to directing after an eight year break – with a low-budget film starring British actor Tim Roth, it emerged today.

Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, a master of comic melancholy who in Herzog, Humboldt’s Gift and other novels both championed and mourned the soul’s fate in the modern world, has died at 89.

Iain Dowie is determined not to become involved in any mind games with Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho this weekend.

UEFA have distanced themselves from comments saying Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is an “enemy of football”.

UEFA referees chief Volker Roth, the man threatened with a law suit by Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, today claimed that match officials are turning their back on football due to abuse from managers and players.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter insists managers are damaging football by criticising referees.

JOSE MOURINHO says he will take legal action against European referees’ chief Volker Roth unless a claim the Chelsea manager is “an enemy of football” is retracted.

Jose Mourinho has promised to take legal action against UEFA referees’ chief Volker Roth unless he retracts the claim that Chelsea’s manager is “an enemy of football”.

JOSE PEREIRA, the president of the Association of Portuguese coaches, has backed Jose Mourinho after the Chelsea boss was accused of being “the enemy of soccer”.