People who engage in light or moderate drinking every day are at an increased risk of cancer, a study has found.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has insisted ex-Anglo CEO David Drumm should physically attend the banking inquiry, as it emerged the investigation’s members have split over whether the exiled banker can give evidence by video-link from the US.

He said that he picked the infamous sum Anglo needed on guarantee night “out of me arse”, later leaving for the US and telling a reporter who tracked him down to “have a bit of respect”.

As a child, artist Mary Nolan O’Brien passed the old Famine graveyard every day on her way to school — and, at the request of her mother, always murmured a prayer as she walked by.

Antidepressants in pregnancy ‘may raise risk of fatal condition’ in unborn child

Very overweight or obese teenagers are at twice the risk of developing bowel cancer in middle age compared with their slimmer peers, a study has suggested.

Actor Leonard Nimoy died yesterday, aged 83. US president Obama described Nimoy’s Mr Spock as ‘cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the centre of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future’.

The newly crowned Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh has revealed she is gay.

James Bond star Daniel Craig has reportedly pulled out of his latest film at the last minute, plunging the future of the production into doubt.

A US woman has splashed out $560,000 on two parking spaces.

At least eight people are dead and 38 people injured after a tour bus collided with two other vehicles in the mountains of Southern California early today.

The battery that caught fire in a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner was not overcharged, but US government investigators warned there could still be problems with wiring or other components.

Japan's major airlines grounded their Boeing 787 planes for safety checks today, hours after one was forced to make an emergency landing, in the latest blow for the new jet.

President Barack Obama is within reach of the 270 electoral votes needed to win a second term as Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s path to victory is narrowing, five weeks from US election day.

Drugs firm GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3bn (€2.4bn) in fines after admitting to the largest healthcare fraud in US history.

Adele is to perform at the Grammy awards.

MADELINE MILLER was brought up to love books.

THE COST of treating a 4-year-old Co Cork girl for a rare cancerous brain tumour has been estimated at over €1 million though the final figure is expected to be around €820,000 following negotiations.

Prince William arrived at Westminster Abbey to marry Kate Middleton, with best man Prince Harry at his side.

FBI agents raided three hedge funds in what one of the targets called a wide-ranging probe of insider trading in the financial industry.

Health chiefs are examining at least 120 suspected cases of cholera in Haiti's capital, the most significant warning sign yet that the epidemic has spread from outlying areas to threaten as many as three million people.

Three Pakistani men said to have supplied funds to Times Square car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad were arrested in a series of raids as the FBI followed the money trail of the failed attack.

An immigration hearing for President Barack Obama’s African aunt ended without an immediate decision on asylum.

Researchers have traced the source of mass poisoning in rural Bangladesh which has been causing deaths and has affected millions over the past three decades.

Katie Holmes has enrolled her daughter in a Catholic school.

HOTEL giant Marriott has dropped its legal claim that a woman raped in front of her children at gunpoint was careless and partly to blame, following a storm of protest.

Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler has a broken shoulder and stitches in his head after falling from the stage during a South Dakota concert, bandmate Joe Perry said.

Lawyers for a German who calls himself Clark Rockefeller said they would appeal against his kidnapping conviction, calling it "the first chapter" in the case.

A German con-man who posed as a member of the wealthy US Rockefeller dynasty was found guilty of kidnapping his own daughter from her London-based mother today.

Jurors in the kidnap trial of the German who calls himself Clark Rockefeller ended a third day of deliberations yesterday after asking the judge’s advice regarding an insanity defence.

US jurors in the kidnapping trial of the German who calls himself Clark Rockefeller face a third day of deliberations today.

U2 thrilled 200 fans at Hollywood's historic Capitol Records building on Monday night by chatting about their career and new album in a cramped studio.

Paul Simon is going back to school - he has been appointed to the board of trustees at the prestigious Berklee College of Music.

A US internet retailer is to create 200 jobs in Ireland with the opening of a customer support centre, it was announced today.

An afterparty held by Madonna for her touring crew in Boston, Massachusetts came to an abrupt end on yesterday morning when a fire alarm cut short the fun.

Madonna soldiered on with her US tour this week, appearing onstage in Boston, Massachusetts just hours after news of her divorce was confirmed by her publicist.

Germany became the latest country to act over the financial meltdown, with a new rescue plan for its second biggest commercial property lender and a 100% guarantee on private bank accounts.

Oscar winner Ben Affleck is writing, directing and starring in his next movie project - about a career thief who falls in love with a bank manager.

George Michael was forced to delay his flight to Boston, Massachusetts by one hour on Sunday - because rockers Sting and Bruce Springsteen were given priority by air traffic controllers.

SMALL rocky planets like Earth may outnumber Jupiter-sized “gas giants” by three-to-one, a recent discovery suggests.

Hollywood couple Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson are reportedly engaged, after the 'Fool's Gold'

Cyndi Lauper and the organisers of her upcoming tour have thrown Britney Spears a comeback lifeline - by asking the fallen star to join the second 'True Colors' trek.