TORTURED artist Vincent Van Gogh died this month back in 1890.

The cold weather bringing chaos to Ireland has also caused problems across large areas of Europe.

When a baby is born, there is a tag on its ankle with ‘best before .. etc’ stamped on it.

The draw has been made for the 2006 O'Neills Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland Football Sevens tournament.

ACCORDING to the Examiner of June 26, the light died, last month, for the oldest known living animal.

A VAN Gogh masterwork expected to fetch more than €40 million at auction went on display yesterday.

CHRISTIAN Lacroix harked back to his southern French roots for his bright and elaborately-crafted haute couture collection, while Riccardo Tisci’s talent for structure offered elegance tinted with romanticism at Givenchy.

French customs agents seized two illegal shipments of artefacts from Africa, including statuettes, prehistoric fossils, jewels and pearl necklaces, the Budget Ministry said today.

KERRY and Tyrone will be strongly represented at this year’s Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland football sevens in Dublin on Saturday week.

CAROLINA KLUFT has played down reports she is suffering from a knee injury ahead of what promises to be the best heptathlon competition in history.

Galway 2-13 Laois 1-17

PADDY CLARKE was in the air, flying to Australia as part of the Irish management for the 2001 International Rules Series, when Brigid’s lost heavily in the Dublin county football final to a Na Fianna side captained by Kieran McGeeney.

THREE original works by Vincent van Gogh were auctioned last night at a sale of Impressionist and Modern Art.

A new mother died of smoke inhalation when a fire broke out in the maternity ward of a French hospital, rescue services said.

A woman has been killed in a road traffic accident which happened shortly before 11.30am at Arles, on the main Carlow-Portlaoise road.

Six people have died and another 12 are injured after a bus travelling through southern France veered off the road and crashed into a house last night.