THE Festival of Youth Orchestras takes place at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Saturday. Along with groups from all over the country, Cork School of Music’s Chamber Orchestra will be taking to the road.

Madonna is dating her 26-year-old backup dancer Timor Steffens.

Madonna has come under fire for posting pictures of her teenage son with a bottle of alcohol.

Fugitive film director Roman Polanski has asked a judge to sentence him in his absence over a child sex case, a Los Angeles court was told early today.

An international row was brewing today over the arrest of film director Roman Polanski as artists and politicians leapt to his defence.