Set within the historic grounds of a renovated gun powdered mills just metres from the buzzing village vibe of downtown Ballincollig, at first sight it’s hard to believe that you’ve arrived at one of the world’s biggest software multi-nationals. VMware Cork: a working utopia? Evelyn Kerge, for one, seems to think so.

International intelligence agencies have joined the investigation into the two passengers who boarded the missing Boeing 777 plane with stolen passports.

Justin Bieber has been behaving like a bad boy to boost his career, R&B singer Brian McKnight has claimed.

I HAVE two Annes — one that belongs to me, and one that belongs to the world”.

A convicted rapist has brought a High Court challenge against the decision to remove and exclude him from the State.

Europe’s stalled economy will not get more help today from the European Central Bank, which is expected to hold off cutting interest rates as it waits for financial markets to heal so that its already low benchmark rates get through to businesses and consumers.

The Killers would love to team up with Muse for a track.

Kim Kardashian has no interest in recording a duet with Kanye West.

The “insecure” Taylor Swift triumphed at last night’s MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) picking up three gongs.

Carly Rae Jepsen is "terrified" of crowd surfing for the first time at the MTV Europe Music Awards tonight.

Whitney Houston will be remembered at this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) with the tragic star being named a global icon.

Carly Rae Jepsen, fun. and Rita Ora will perform at the MTV European Music Awards (EMAs).

Rihanna leads the 2012 MTV European Music Awards (EMA) nominations with six nods.

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and his coalition partners have struck a deal on new cuts demanded by creditors to secure a vital €130bn bailout.

IF previous rogue traders are anything to go by, notoriety and possibly even a Hollywood film await the person behind the €1.66 billion UBS fallout.

ALMOST €1.8 trillion was wiped off world stocks this week as fears mounted about a US recession and the spreading of the eurozone crisis.

NOVEMBER in Toronto and Dermott Lennon is in top form. Fourth in the World Cup qualifier with Hallmark Elite and, along the way, picking up a couple of decent placings.

David Haye's hopes of facing one of the Klitschko brothers before the end of the year are effectively over after the Ukrainian heavyweight champions lined up alternative opponents.

SCIENTISTS have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.

Two planes collided today while taxiing to an airport runway.

A former Tipperary factory manager turned homeless alcoholic has been given a seven years sentence for importing cocaine worth over €460,000 from Chile.

Anne Frank’s cousin gave up custody today of thousands of letters, photographs and documents that archivists say will reveal details about the background of the teenage diarist who became a symbol of the Holocaust.

FRANCE’S foreign intelligence service learned as early as January 2001 that al-Qaida was preparing a hijacking plot likely to involve a US airplane, former intelligence officials said yesterday, confirming a report that also said the CIA received the warning.

An Air India flight carrying 273 passengers and crew made an emergency landing in the US after blowing a tyre as it took off.

Israeli-American Robert Aumann and American Thomas Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences today for their work in game-theory analysis.

A company that specialises in anti-counterfeiting technology claims Europe’s common currency infringes on a patent obtained from a New York inventor’s family.

Boston-based heavyweight Kevin McBride was due to face the man who many called the best pound-for-pound fighter of his generation at the end of the month.

Michael Jackson has abused drugs and alcohol and given teenage boys wine, which he calls “Jesus juice”, a former business adviser claimed in a magazine today.

A Parmalat employee who had been questioned in the Italian company’s fraud scandal died in an apparent suicide after he jumped off a bridge into a river, officials said.

A 19-year-old German passenger was arrested by Gardaí today after a bomb alert caused an American airliner to make an emergency landing at Shannon Airport.

Increased security at the European Parliament in Brussels today failed to stop at least one letter bomb from being delivered.

European security forces are tightening protection for leading European Union officials following the discovery of four bombs mailed to EU agencies.

THE draw for the Euro 2004 qualifying play-offs will not be seeded, UEFA decided yesterday.

THE leader of Nigeria headed for Liberia yesterday to offer embattled President Charles Taylor asylum in his country, as a US military team prepared to begin a mission to study whether American troops should be sent to Liberia

THE World Health Organisation has warned that a highly contagious and deadly pneumonia-like illness of unknown cause is fast becoming a worldwide health threat.

Datalex, a provider of technology solutions for the global travel and transportation industry, has today announced a new agreement with T-Systems, a division of Deutsche Telekom.

eTel Group, a corporate telecommunications service provider for Central Europe, has announced the launch of its International Network Operations Centre [iNOC] to serve Central Europe.

The US military has expressed its regret after two Afghan civilians were killed when aid supplies dropped by parachute crushed their house.

British stars are celebrating after picking up six gongs at the 2001 MTV Awards.

Two of the European Union’s top figures were in Dublin today, two weeks after Ireland’s shock referendum rejection of the community’s Treaty of Nice.

The European Central Bank is unlikely to cut interest rates when its governing council meets in Dublin later today.

A Scottish court today convicted Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi of murder in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie that killed 270 people.