Latest:Five people have been killed in a shooting at a workplace in Orlando, Florida.

Stormzy will headline Friday night at Longitude at Marlay Park in July.

Actor Harrison Ford reportedly had a potentially serious run-in with an airliner at a southern California airport.

Uber Technologies is paying 20 million dollars (£16.2 million) to settle allegations that it duped people into driving for its ride-hailing service.

Paula Burns sees some similarities with Nicole Scherzinger. Mostly it’s their cougar status. Is age really just a number in the dating game?

A sheriff said charges are unlikely against a Nebraska couple after an alligator killed their two-year-old son by snatching him out of shallow water at a Walt Disney World beach, but the entertainment giant is reviewing whether to add alligator warning signs.

Wildlife officials have pulled four alligators from a lagoon at Walt Disney World after a two-year-old boy was dragged into the water by an alligator.

A search is under way for a two-year-old boy who was dragged into the water by an alligator near Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa, authorities said.

ENGLAND: A seaside resort has axed a Punch and Judy show over fears it trivialises domestic violence.

Such is the nature of Las Vegas undercards, early fights can be fought in front of a basically empty arena. So, but for a vociferous band of travelling Irish, Jason Quigley’s masterclass performance against James De La Rosa was seen, in person, by very few.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Some of the stranger stories from around the world

ENGLAND: If Spider-Man was real, he would be forever falling off vertical walls and struggling to maintain credibility as a superhero, new research suggests.

An elderly husband and wife stranded for two weeks in southern California’s high desert ate oranges and a pie and drank rainwater that they collected in cups, but the 79-year-old husband died at some point before the couple’s rescue.

USA: Authorities say an Orlando man panicked after robbing someone of a phone and shot himself while fleeing the scene and eventually flagged down a deputy for help.

Packaging company Smurfit Kappa yesterday announced that it had struck a deal to acquire an American competitor for $150m (€118.24m).

I’m not a very relaxed person. 

US president Barack Obama has said that denying climate change is like arguing that the moon is made of cheese.

US president Barack Obama has said denying climate change is like arguing that the moon is made of cheese.

He was one of the most beloved teachers in the small world of international schools that serve the children of diplomats, well-off US expatriates, and local elites.

It was one huge bar bill, but singer Nadine Coyle and her family finally paid it off, shelling out more than $160,000 (€115,000) to cover property taxes dating back more than five years.

A girl has been killed and 14 others, at least a dozen of them children, injured, after a car smashed into a Florida day-care centre following a chain-reaction crash.

Guilt-racked Britons are using their sheds to eat unhealthy snacks and store love letters from old flames, a new survey has shown.

A jury has found that Toyota is not liable for the death of a woman who was killed when her car apparently accelerated and crashed despite her efforts to stop.

A group of north Cork students has traded the Rebel County for Orange County this week as they carry the green flag into a world robotics competition in California.

A shooting spree through California has left four people dead, including the gunman, and several others injured.

A massive manhunt continued in the California mountains for a fired policeman accused of three murders who declared war on law enforcement officers and their families in a rambling internet manifesto.

Florida Democrat Earl K Wood and Alabama Republican Charles Beasley won their elections but will not take office.

FORGET the Real Housewives of Orange County and their cat fights.

Police have investigated allegations of child neglect at the former California home of Octomom Nadya Suleman and her 14 children.

Bad things happen to bad people. In Oliver Stone’s films, the wicked pay heavily for their manifold sins and the Oscar-winning writer-director certainly doles out tough justice to the godforsaken characters in this serpentine and sexually-charged immorality tale co-written by Shane Salerno and Don Winslow.

Goalkeeping coach Alan Kelly has insisted the Republic of Ireland's preparations for Euro 2012 could hardly be more different to the campaigns in which he played a part.

A New York bride who faked having terminal cancer to swindle well-wishers into funding her dream wedding and honeymoon to the Caribbean has been ordered to repay over $13,000 (€10,000) to her victims, prosecutors said.

WHEN TMZ’s Peter O’Riordan was first beamed onto TV screens last August, eyes widened and ears perked, around homes in the US as curious fans took to the internet to question the identity of the new “hot Irish guy”.

THE HEADLINES ebb and flow but this last week in American sport gushed in an entertaining torrent of confusion. It didn’t matter if the moment was glorious, seedy, violent or downright miraculous, skill and common sense ranked low and we, the humble onlookers, were all the better for it.

The man accused of a deadly shooting rampage at a Southern California hairdressing salon that killed eight people has faced enraged relatives of the victims at a court appearance.

A GUNMAN shot dead six people and critically wounded three others yesterday at a Southern California hair salon in the coastal town of Seal Beach, an Orange County fire official said.

Six people were killed and three wounded in a shooting at a hairdressing salon in the Southern California city of Seal Beach, police said tonight.

IT is time to chill out about the potholes and spare a thought for commuters in Los Angeles who are bracing themselves for this weekend’s 53-hour closure of one of the world’s busiest motorways.

I was aware of the programme, like everyone who travels abroad. It’s a magazine show really and like anyone I’d think ‘how did your man get that job’?

Nadine Coyle's celebrity neighbours complained when she moved near them in Orange County.

Courtney Love claims she was once too poor to buy shoes.

The world’s longest surviving octuplets celebrated their first birthday at their California home.