Dog blamed for apartment fire

The Irish relationship with drink has come in for a lot of criticism, not least in Des Bishop’s recent TV series. But how do young people treat alcohol in other countries? We sent reporters out with teenagers in six different cities to talk about alcohol, clothes and the opposite sex

SYDNEY SWANS coach Paul Roos has predicted big things for Tadhg Kennelly this year after a pre-season campaign in which the 2009 All-Ireland medallist has greatly impressed.

A SYDNEY family has launched a lawsuit against Kentucky Fried Chicken, claiming their daughter became brain damaged and crippled from salmonella poisoning after eating a chicken wrap.

Peter (Rudd) is getting married but realises he has no really close male friends, one of which would make a suitable best man … the search, via a series of ‘man dates’, is on to find his ideal companion, who might just be Sydney (Segal).

Sydney Chaplin, second son of Charlie Chaplin and himself a Tony-winning actor has died at 82.

“I WAS strangled in Hawaii in late March 1974, on my way to Vietnam. My assailant was a former Green Beret I was interviewing in my hotel room. He left me for dead.”

George Clooney has led the tributes to his 'Michael Clayton' co-star Sydney Pollack, branding the actor/director a "class act".

Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with 'Tootsie' and period drama 'Out Of Africa', has died of cancer at 73, his agent said today.

What’s gone wrong for Tarantino? This disappointing film – plotless and poorly directed – adds another bummer to the former whiz kid’s CV.

American bookstore Barnes & Noble has overturned its decision not to stock OJ Simpson's hypothetical book about the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in its shops.

O.J. Simpson's hypothetical book about the murder of his ex-wife and her friend Ronald Goldman will not be sold in the shops of American bookstore chain Barnes & Noble.

Nicole Brown Simpson's sister is calling for a boycott of OJ Simpson's hypothetical book of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Alias star Jennifer Garner is devastated her hit TV show is ending after five seasons, because the character is such an integral part of her life.

A VALUABLE literary collection including letters and a manuscript by WB Yeats fetched stg£72,000 (€104,572) at auction in London yesterday.

A valuable literary collection including letters and a manuscript by WB Yeats fetched £72,000 (€104,770) at auction today.

OJ Simpson marked the forthcoming anniversary of his ex-wife’s killing by saying he was “angry” with her.

WILL SMITH and Martin Lawrence are back in Bad Boys II as Miami cops Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett, hot on the trail of a shipment of ecstasy supposedly being brought in from Cuba by Johnny Tapia (Jordi Molla).

Movie hunk Russell Crowe has described how his wife is a woman after his own heart – for her no nonsense view that ante-natal classes were pointless.

Colour footage showing how Charlie Chaplin planned a different ending to his masterpiece The Great Dictator has been unearthed.