Superman’s actions are called into question and the Dark Knight enters the fray…

This is how to take your beating.

Zack Snyder (Watchmen, Man of Steel) is bringing some real superhero royalty to the screen next year, with a film featuring both the man in the red cape and the man in the black armour. That's Batman v Superman.

George Wendt returns to the Kilkenny’s Cat Laughs event 19 years after his first appearance, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

Zack Snyder is due to direct 'Justice League'.

On Saturday night in New York, the best player in College Football will be handed the coveted Heisman Trophy.

The 'Man of Steel' sequel has been confirmed to be set in Detroit, Michigan, with the city standing in for the fictional comic book cities of Metropolis and Gotham City when filming on the production starts early next year.

Ben Affleck will don Batman’s cape and cowl.

Ryan Gosling has been tipped to play Batman in the 'Man of Steel' sequel.

Superman is coming back, and he’ll have a caped co-star.

IT might feel as though we’ve only just ditched our cosy jumpers, but bikini season is upon us.

Being a columnist, especially a prominent one, is still an important role.

Thousands of angry bees attacked a man in a wheelchair, sending him and three others who came to his aid to hospital.

A JUDGE has given Facebook access to the personal email accounts of a man suing for half ownership of the social networking website and ordered him to explain why he can’t produce documents its lawyers believe are evidence.

A judge has given Facebook access to the personal email accounts of a man suing for half ownership of the social networking website and ordered him to explain why he cannot produce documents its lawyers believe are evidence.

Once upon a time we got films based on video games, but here director Snyder goes one better – or worse – in bringing us a video game, forget the film, forget a plot we can get involved in, forget characters we care about … hey, it’s a video game.

Amy Adams will portray Lois Lane in the new 'Superman' movie.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that an anti-gay church has the right to picket military funerals as part of the US constitution's guarantee of freedom of speech.

The now classic Alan Moore comic-book stories of fallen super-heroes was long thought to be unfilmable, but Snyder has done it with some verve and style and has brought us a film that far outshines most of the recent crop of futuristic actioners.

THE grieving father of a dead US soldier has won nearly $11 million (€7m) damages from a fundamentalist church that pickets military funerals as a campaign against homosexuality.

The grieving father of a dead US soldier has won nearly $11m (€7.6m) damages from a fundamentalist church that pickets military funerals as a campaign against homosexuality.

At the epic Battle of Thermopylae 300 Spartans stood against the might of the Persian Empire … and that ancient gallantry has made for a film of epic, thrilling, gory proportions.

North Korea today marked the 65th birthday of leader Kim Jong Il amid progress in ending its nuclear programmes and lingering speculation abroad over who will eventually succeed him.

A GUNMAN in a trench coat fired a shotgun randomly at shoppers in a mall in Utah on Monday, killing five and wounding four before being killed by police.

A man with a shotgun entered a US shopping centre and began randomly shooting customers last night, killing five people and injuring at least four others before being killed, police said.

TOM Cruise has won a new movie deal with the owner of an American football team, after his high-profile split from Paramount Pictures last week.

Tom Cruise has won a new movie deal with the owner of an American football team, after his high-profile split from Paramount Pictures last week.

Tom Cruise has found a new group to finance his films after being publicly dumped by Paramount Studios last week.

Fourteen children kidnapped at gunpoint along with their bus driver on their way to school have been released unharmed, but an American missionary abducted in a separate incident remained in captivity, Haitian police said today.

Rookie Joey Snyder fired a seven-under-par 65 and has a one-shot advantage after the third round of the Southern Farm Bureau Classic.

Michael Jackson is throwing a thank you concert this weekend for some of his most dedicated fans for their support during his child sex abuse trial.

International donors pledged an additional €160m to fund the African Union peacekeeping operation in Darfur today during a conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to raise money to stop the ongoing violence in western Sudan.

The US has today pledged an additional €39m to fund the African Union peacekeeping operation in Darfur during a conference of international donors.