From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics reveal their picks for the year ahead.

It’s almost impossible to recall past controversies without wondering how much the Twitter prism would have stirred things up even more.

For 17 days in July and August, we didn’t look at London through a prism of begrudgery and snorting derision, because they only put on the damn best show anyone could remember. (Ireland should try it sometime ...) Here’s the top ten memories of Olympics 2012

A man who agreed to plead guilty in a plot to extort more than $1m from Tom Cruise for the actor’s stolen wedding photos was found dead in his home, authorities said.

A man known for brokering deals involving compromising celebrity photos and videos has agreed to plead guilty in a plot to extort more than $1 million from Tom Cruise for the actor’s stolen wedding photos, court documents have shown.

AN Arizona man who allegedly demanded more than $1 million not to publish Tom Cruise’s stolen wedding photographs has been arrested, the actor’s lawyer said yesterday.

TEN years ago Tonya Harding found herself the unlikely cover girl of Time magazine. She was not a complete unknown but her newly-won status as US National Figure Skating champion hardly warranted the attention she was getting, even in the build-up to the following month’s Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.

THERE’s talk of a reality show and a clothing line, speaking appearances and a book — a lot of attention for a 13-year-old girl who has never recorded a song or rehearsed a script.

BEN JOHNSON has been voted the worst sporting cheat of all time for the 1998 drugs scandal that saw him stripped of his Olympic gold medal.

A new US reality TV show plans to feature an ordinary man as he is put through intense boxing training before fighting Mike Tyson.