Channing Tatum has gone from being a stripper in Florida to one of Hollywood’s top earners. What does that do to a person? As he returns to the screen in Magic Mike XXL, Rob Haskell investigates.

A witch wreaks havoc on fairytale characters in musical merry-go-round Into The Woods; Liam Neeson protects his daughter one final time in the action-packed sequel Taken 3, and a philanthropist sets up a wrestling academy in the harrowing true story Foxcatcher.

An Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler and his brother fall in with a businessman who wants to coach the US team.

Former wrestler Mark Schultz has blasted the movie based on his story, and its director Bennett Miller.

Self-confessed killer Mikey Schultz denied mouthing "fuck you" to Oscar Pistorius’s sister Aimee as a threat while inside the courtroom.

Police say a man with an extensive criminal record — he spent time in prison a decade ago for the shooting death of his young son — killed six of his grandchildren, his adult daughter, and himself in a rampage at a home in a small Florida town outside of Gainesville.

A convicted criminal killed six of his grandchildren, his adult daughter and himself in a shooting at his Florida home.

German Socialist Martin Schulz became the first person to be elected president of the European Parliament for the second time when he got more than 50% of the votes in the first round.

Oprah Winfrey is creating her own tea line for Starbucks.

Coffee chain Starbucks has said guns are no longer “welcome” in its US cafes, although it has stopped short of an outright ban.

Romeo Is Bleeding can land the nap in the Giltspur Scientific Maiden Hurdle at Downpatrick this afternoon.

Double Seven, trained for J P McManus by Martin Brassil, landed the €50,000 Gigginstown House Midlands National in dramatic circumstances at Kilbeggan last night.

Opening in Texas in 1858, Django Unchained (18s) begins with bounty hunter King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) liberating Django (Jamie Foxx) from slavery, so that Django can identify a trio of brothers Schultz is tracking down.

Following the colossal impact of ‘Pulp Fiction’, Quentin Tarantino's reputation kept him a cult favourite straight through smaller pictures like ‘Jackie Brown’, the ‘Kill Bill’ series, and even the less impressive ‘Death Proof’.

A young man who testified against a former college American football coach sued Penn State University, blaming it for how its top officials dealt with complaints that Jerry Sandusky behaved inappropriately with boys.

AER Arann intends to employ 50 additional staff this year and double in size by 2015, the airline’s chief executive said yesterday.

Authorities in the US state of New Jersey said they arrested a man for allegedly killing a police dog that was trying to apprehend him.

Signs of a weaker US housing market and a gloomier outlook on the economy gave investors more reasons to dump stocks today.

A hoax video purportedly showing Michael Jackson emerging from a coroner’s van was an experiment aimed at showing how quickly misinformation and conspiracy theories can race across the internet, German broadcaster RTL said today.

The body of a little boy was found buried in the sand of a playground, US police said today.

Starbucks Corp plans to slash nearly 7,000 more jobs during a new round of store closures and other cuts, the company said as it reported that its profit dropped by more than two thirds in its fiscal first quarter.

Actress Cate Blanchett is set to attend a two-day Australian conference - just six days after giving birth to her third child.

Stocks finished mixed as lacklustre economic reports offered Wall Street little incentive to place big bets ahead of a long weekend.

STARBUCKS, which has ambitious plans for the Irish market, has replaced its chief executive Jim Donald with its group founder and chairman Howard Schultz and said it would slow an aggressive US expansion.

Troubled Starbucks has sacked its chief executive, handing the reins back to chairman Howard Schultz in a major restructuring initiative to pull the company out of a downward slide.

Starbucks said tonight it was bringing its chairman and former chief executive, Howard Schultz, back to lead a major restructuring initiative, replacing Jim Donald.

A young US sheriff’s deputy who opened fire on a pizza party and killed six people reportedly flew into a rage when he was rebuffed by his former girlfriend.

Wall Street soared today, propelling the Standard & Poor's 500 index and Dow Jones industrials to record highs as bright spots among generally sluggish retail sales allowed investors to cast aside concerns about the health of the US economy.

England’s Greg Owen was Britain’s best early performer in the early stages of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.

A man shot dead two people and wounded two others, hours after breaking up with his girlfriend, in a terrifying rampage which included the primary school at which she taught.

REGULATORS of the Irish market must ensure those operating in the medical devices sector are not hampered by over-regulation.

After five years of legal wrangling, America‘s largest cigarette-makers are today meeting federal lawyers in court for the trial phase of the government’s record $280bn (€229.7bn) civil racketeering suit against the tobacco industry.

Italian premier Berlusconi provoked uproar in the European Parliament today by telling a German critic that he should star as a Nazi concentration camp guard in a film.

Irish record holder Paul McKee led up until the last two strides of a brilliant 400m race before being pipped at the post by Ingo Schultz in today's EAA Dortmund International meeting.

TOMAS COMAN made a sensational return to form in Cuttbus on Wednesday night when he pipped reigning European champion Ingo Schultz for second place behind Danny McFarlane of Jamaica in an exciting finish to the 400m.