Jose Mourinho is pleased Chelsea were joined in the last 16 of the Champions League by Premier League title rivals Manchester City and Arsenal.

When she answered the phone and the caller said he was Eamon Ryan from the Green Party, Waterford woman Grace O’Sullivan didn’t know what to say.

Ireland has been placed fourth in a top-10 list of dream destinations by readers of an up-market travel magazine in the US.

FORENSIC experts fear a missing German yachtsman was “hacked to pieces and burned” by cannibals while visiting a remote island in French Polynesia on the trip of a lifetime.

FROM Sligo to Saudi, Kilkee to Kusadasi and Navan to Nairobi — Irish holidaymakers are nothing if not adventurous, at least online.

The US said today it was considering its response to the hijack by Somali pirates of an American couple sailing the world with a yacht full of bibles.

A devastating magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck Chile early today, shattering buildings and bridges, killing at least 122 people and setting off a tsunami that threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean – roughly a quarter of the globe.

TOPFLIGHT, which has been voted Ireland’s Best Ski tour operator for the 14th successive year, has a new winter ski brochure.

FRENCH troops stormed a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates, killing one, capturing six and freeing their two French hostages in a raid that France’s president said yesterday was a warning to criminals on the high seas.

Eddie Murphy has no plans for a real wedding after “symbolically” marrying film producer Tracey Edmonds two weeks ago, the couple have revealed.

Newlyweds Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds will marry for a second time in a legal ceremony when they return to America.

Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds have married in a New Year's Day ceremony.

ACTOR Eddie Murphy celebrated New Year’s Day by tying the knot with film producer partner Tracey Edmonds.

US actor Eddie Murphy celebrated New Year’s Day by tying the knot with film producer Tracey Edmonds.

Fallen media mogul Conrad Black will be sentenced for his role in a £3m (€4.1m) fraud, a judge ruled today.

Fallen media mogul Conrad Black will be sentenced today after he was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice.

ABBEY Travel has released the latest selection of high-quality holidays to Dubai and Oman, with an additional destination to Abu Dhabi. That’s not surprising since the relatively recent start-up of flights from Dublin with Etihad to Abu Dhabi and beyond.

At least 17 people were killed when a small plane plunged into the sea moments after taking off from the French Polynesian resort island of Moorea in the Pacific.

Jurors in the trial of former media mogul Conrad Black have been told to prepare for closing arguments next week.

Newlyweds Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban landed in Tahiti on Monday to begin their honeymoon, according to media reports in Australia.

In a dramatic twist to French Polynesia’s political crisis, the ousted president declared that he and his ex-government had started a hunger strike to protest at what they called unlawful elections.

THE Communications regulator yesterday launched an attempt to crackdown on internet dialling scams.

More than 120 passengers were evacuated today after fire broke out on board their luxury cruise ship.

P&O Princess, the cruise group at the centre of a takeover battle, today increased its fleet of ships in a $150m (€154m) deal.

President Jacques Chirac’s coalition of mainstream rightist parties appeared to be heading to take control of France’s parliament following a first-round vote today, exit polls showed.

New Zealand is forging a coalition of South Pacific nations committed to banning whaling in their waters after repeatedly being frustrated in its attempts to set up an internationally recognized whale sanctuary in the area.