There was a lot of controversy about Martin Luther King movie Selma at this year's Oscars, mainly the fact that it was left out of most award categories.

Selma *****

Parts of Donal Óg Cusack’s RTÉ’s documentary make for uncomfortable viewing, writes Michael Moynihan.

A former Indian army officer wanted for a 1996 murder killed his wife and two of their children at their California home before apparently taking his own life.

Liam Neeson is too old to play Abraham Lincoln.

Barack Obama's firebrand minister said the US leader was "like any other president", in an appraisal of his former parishioner's short time in the White House.

Formerly strife-torn Belfast is now one of the world’s top 12 tourist destinations in 2009, according to leading travel guide publisher Frommer’s.

US presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have crossed campaign paths for the first time today.

A Republican official who worked with George Bush in an Alabama campaign in 1972 said she recalled him talking about his National Guard duty and seeing him in uniform before the election that year.

A Loch Ness-style monster search is being lined up for the Irish Republic later this month.