WARNER Bros, leading a push to spur movie purchases by delaying the availability of DVD rentals, is running into resistance in the US from two of its biggest customers.

America’s largest Roman Catholic archdiocese is to pay out $60m to settle 45 sex abuse cases.

CORK software firm Comnitel Technologies continued to make significant losses, its latest accounts show, racking up a deficit of €8.5 million in 2003.