Fashion rules are made to be broken, Rihanna told a glittering crowd of fashion industry leaders, and her outfit dramatically conveyed that message: a sheer fishnet gown, sparkling with thousands of embedded crystals, that left little to the imagination.

A man involved in a custody dispute who was supposed to turn his three-year-old son over to the boy’s mother instead threw the child off the roof of a 52-storey Manhattan apartment building before jumping to his death, police said.

Musical director Cian McCarthy is bringing Book of Mormon to West End, says Roz Crowley

American classical pianist, David Syme, has played to audiences of 10,000 at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Centre, in New York, and the Kennedy Centre, in Washington DC.

Paul Simon probably never had a vocal partner quite like Bobby McFerrin, who coaxed him on stage for an impromptu performance of a Simon and Garfunkel hit - the highlight of opening night of Jazz at the Lincoln Centre’s 25th anniversary season.

In New York’s Lincoln Centre last May over 1,300 Irish Americans and their friends attended a dinner which, in the middle of the most difficult economic circumstances in decades, raised $4.3m (€3.5m) for the American Ireland Fund (AIF).

President Michael D Higgins adjusted the green, white, and orange ribbons on the wreath and bowed his head.

A top orchestra stopped playing during a performance interrupted by a ringtone from an audience member’s mobile phone.

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has called for a renewed sense of national purpose and pride at the annual 1916 state commemoration at Arbour Hill.

A plague of bedbugs hitting New York has now become so bad that tourists are cancelling holidays.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the ousted Honduran president sneaked back to his country with the help of Honduran military personnel.

Hudson River hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger has become such a hot media commodity that journalists are being restricted from taking pictures of him being introduced to the audience at a Broadway play this weekend.

Britney Spears tried to put her widely-criticised appearance on 'The X Factor' behind her today as she celebrated her 27th birthday with a special show on US television.

Scarlett Johansson is reportedly in the running to star on Broadway in a “sexy” revival of musical South Pacific.

MAGICIAN David Blaine began his latest stunt last night, lowering himself into the “human aquarium” where he will live for the next seven days before attempting to break the world record for holding breath under water.

David Blaine’s latest stunt – to hold his breath underwater for a record amount of time – will be broadcast on ITV.

David Blaine intends to sleep with the fishes. but only for a week, and in full public view.

An electrician was convicted of murdering a wealthy Wall Street banker, following bombshell evidence from a British nanny.