Show jumper Billy Twomey pocketed €30,000 yesterday when he won the Hamburg Derby in Germany on Diaghilev.

Beyonce and Mariah Carey have reportedly held talks over making a duet together.

A 28-year-old American man has been fined €1,000 after a plane was forced to divert to Shannon Airport.

Ireland manager Robert Splaine yesterday had one piece of advice for Bertram Allen going into next week’s World Cup final: Play your usual game, writes John Tynan.

Johnny Sexton had suffered a few knockouts in his time but never one like this — sitting on a chair in a Paris suburb just off the peripherique.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar has insisted ex-Fine Gael adviser Frank Flannery is not working with him “on the side” about his future prospects, saying he has grown “very close” to Taoiseach Enda Kenny in recent months.

Usher has reportedly got engaged.

President Barack Obama has that the United States will not be intimidated by Islamic State (IS) militants after the beheading of a second American journalist.

We love this softer side of Simon.

Police in the UK say a plane has been escorted into Manchester Airport after information "about a possible device on board".

Paris Hilton has been accused of attacking a former 'Baywatch' star at her home.

Justin Bieber is "sorry" he didn't "bow down" to Seth Rogen when they met.

Justin Bieber is seeking a delay in his trial, currently scheduled to begin next month, on charges of driving under the influence, resisting arrest and driving with an expired licence.

McBusted are to support One Direction on their upcoming stadium tour.

Simon Cowell has hired a dog expert to help his pets adjust to his baby son.

Justin Bieber's manager has given him an ultimatum.

The star of ABC TV show 'The Bachelor' has apologised after making anti-gay comments that drew a swift rebuke from the network.

Paris Hilton has vowed to make Lindsay Lohan "pay" for allegedly ordering an attack on her younger brother.

He's one of the richest and most powerful men in media - but Simon Cowell gets as nervous as the rest of us when the time comes to meet the girlfriend's parents.

A postman has been shot dead while delivering mail in Maryland.

The reality TV mogul has placed the home in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, on the market, which many see as him signalling the end of his single days as he prepares to settle down with his pregnant girlfriend Lauren Silverman.

THE life of a Hollywood A-lister isn’t all glitz and glamour.

Lauren Silverman reportedly used her mother as an excuse to secretly visit Simon Cowell.

Justin Bieber's bodyguards are being investigated for alleged battery.

Justin Bieber stole a memory card from a paparazzi photographer.

Justin Bieber has been hit with another paternity claim.

Paris Hilton has become the latest victim of 'swatting', or hoax burglary calls.

A woman believed to be the first known five-organ transplant patient to deliver a baby has spoken of her joy.

A second Jonah Lehrer book is being pulled from shelves, a year after his best-selling work 'Imagine' was withdrawn following reports that the author had made up quotes from singer Bob Dylan.

Kim and Kourtney Kardashian are finalising a deal on a $6m property in Miami, Florida.

The South Beach mansion in Miami, Florida, where Italian designer Gianni Versace was shot dead is back on the market for $125m (€100m).

Robin Gibb's last words saw him pay a touching tribute to his late twin brother Maurice.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accused the Syrian regime of committing “almost certain” crimes against humanity as activists reported fresh violence and the arrest of several prominent dissidents.

More than two decades after the US forced him from power, Manuel Noriega returned to Panama as a prisoner and, to many of those he once ruled with impunity, an irrelevant man.

Mexican authorities set up emergency shelters and cruise ships shifted course as Hurricane Rina strengthened off the Caribbean coast today, following a projected track through Cancun and the resort-filled Mayan Riviera, Mexico’s most popular tourist destination.

The US government has begun legal action against 17 financial firms, including the country’s largest banks, for selling billions worth of mortgage-backed securities that turned toxic when the housing market collapsed.

IT was not just in this part of the world that Rory McIlroy’s US Open progress was being monitored extremely closely last night.

Chuck Blazer, the man who blew the whistle on an alleged bribery scandal, has dismissed claims of a FIFA/USA conspiracy, insisting: “The only things that were American in all this were the $100 bills.”

Sean Kingston is in a stable condition after a jet-ski accident on Sunday.

Passengers on a US flight which made an emergency landing at a military base after a sudden drop in cabin pressure took dramatic pictures of a hole in the aircraft.

FORMER President Carlos Andres Perez, whose popularity soared with Venezuela’s oil-based economy but who later faced riots, a severe economic downturn and impeachment, has died in Miami, Florida, from a heart attack, aged 88.

AT least 1,721 Haitians have died from a worsening cholera epidemic in the earthquake-devastated country, according to new figures released by the health ministry yesterday.

Panicked residents fled a coastal city that has been hit twice already this decade by huge floods as an intensifying Hurricane Tomas moved up Haiti’s north western coast.

Hurricane Earl battered tiny islands across the north-eastern Caribbean with heavy rain and roof-ripping winds as it rapidly intensified into a major Category 4 storm and threatening the US.