Self-styled militiamen occupied the headquarters of a US wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon, in a standoff with authorities, officials and local media reports said yesterday, in the latest dispute over federal land use in the West.

Tommy Gilbert Jr has been arrested on suspicion of shooting Tommy Sr, a rich Wall St investor. How did such a gilded life corrode? asks Lynnley Browning

From his madcap childhood to college in the North, Omid Djalili has plenty life experiences to mine for comedy, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Political incorrectness is to the fore in the Broadway and West End hit musical, Avenue Q which is coming to Cork.

‘Admission’ is a lightweight romantic comedy about a key member of staff at one of America’s most prestigious universities, who bears this responsibility of making or shattering young dreams.

Princeton University has been evacuated due to an unspecified bomb threat.

What gender gap?

Sue Leonard talks to Pulitzer prizewinner Jeffrey Eugenides, about his latest novel, The Marriage Plot, a romantic triangle among three college students

BACKSTAGE, behind the floodlights, moments before he gave the 2004 Democratic convention keynote address that would launch his career into the national stratosphere, Barack Obama made a confession to his wife, Michelle.

Peter Benchley, whose novel Jaws terrorised millions of swimmers, has died.

Would-be space traveller Gregory Olsen remains optimistic that his flight to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket will go ahead even though it is temporarily on hold due to an undisclosed medical issue.

Kathy Hennessy, Princeton

Russell Crowe says his new film plays down hints of homosexuality which are included in the book it's based on.