Actors may have the excuse of artistic licence, but a news programme should not be glamorising a crime that destroys the lives of girls and women around the world, writes Nina Burleigh

The doctors and therapists who worked with a little girl from Afghanistan knew the prosthetic arm they gave her would change her life.

Dating websites for dogs have started emerging online.

WHETHER it’s a Tiffany diamond or a three-year-old lawnmower, more and more Americans from all social classes are pawning their possessions to make ends meet.

ONE day Liam Kennedy is on the dole in north Tipperary — the next he’s orbited into a millionaire lifestyle in Beverly Hills.

SLOANE Capital, the Limerick-based property company backed by JP McManus and John Magnier, has bought one of the most prestigious retail outlets on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills for €196 million.

Rodeo Drive was not quite down and out, but owners of chic stores along the glitzy Beverly Hills thoroughfare were worried that it was losing its lustre.

Illusionist David Blaine treated shop staff to a mini-show during a recent LA shopping trip.

Beverly Hills police are investigating a complaint that retired astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin punched a man in the face after being asked to swear on a Bible that he had been to the moon.