A group of tourists who ran up the famous Rocky steps in Philadelphia got a knockout photo at the top - a selfie with Rocky himself.

A woman diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Glasgow from Sierra Leone is a nurse who volunteered to help in the fight against the deadly virus.

This week, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum go back undercover in the raucous comedy sequel ‘22 Jump Street’ and Nicole Kidman stars as a film star, who is asked to play the role of a lifetime, in ‘Grace of Monaco’.

Gardaí arrested four people and brought them to Cork District Court yesterday on various charges arising out of the seizure at the weekend of €600,000 worth of cannabis plants growing at an industrial unit in South Link business park.

Ireland are odds-on to claim their first John Smith’s Grand National in six years following the first entry stage for the Aintree showpiece.

Business leaders in Cork City have called for emergency talks with the city’s transport chiefs after it emerged that two major projects are set to cause traffic chaos for over a month.

Dublin's Heuston station has been named the overall best rail station in Ireland and the UK.

An estimated 30 people were injured this afternoon after a double decker bus toppled over close to Belfast's Central Station.

Milly Dowler’s family launched a scathing attack on the British justice system today as their daughter’s “spineless and gutless” killer was given an unprecedented second whole-life jail term.

EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou has decided to hold back a flotation of low-cost travel business easyBus, it was reported today.

I’VE always been very proud of the fact that I am Irish. The source of this pride has stemmed largely from Ireland’s rich cultural heritage.

Tests will be carried out today on the body of a teenager who died in hospital after a street brawl.

Upwards of 40,000 spectators braved the wet conditions to welcome home the Tipperary All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winning squad and management at Semple Stadium in Thurles last night.

A canoeist pulled from a river during stormy conditions in the UK died, the fire service said.

Gig-goers driving to the Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally, Co Laois this weekend have been warned to allow at least an extra two hours for their journey.

A message the sole surviving Mumbai massacre gunman hoped to get to his backers in Pakistan was ordered to be kept secret by a judge in India today.

Damien Enright on a new guide to hedgerow beauties

A young Cavan man accused of murdering his father told gardaí: “I always had it in my head growing up to kill somebody”, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The mother of Shannon Matthews was charged by police today in connection with the alleged abduction of her daughter.

A man was injured in the leg in an overnight shooting attack in Clonmel, gardaí said today.

BUS ÉIREANN is hoping to offer commuters free rides on a new Luas-style bus system that will be tested in Cork within months.

A man was sentenced to five years in prison today for conspiring to blow up a busy Manhattan underground station.

Actor Ryan O'Neal was arrested at his Malibu, California home and booked on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and negligent discharge of a firearm after a fight with his son Griffin on Saturday night.

TIME doesn’t stand still and Waterford city’s evolution as a thriving business hub is about to be mapped through an exhibition of works from one of Waterford’s best-known photographers.

A French court today handed an eight-month suspended jail sentence to a volunteer firefighter, and a £100,000 (€147,500) fine to an apartment operator, following the death of an eight-year-old Scottish boy killed when he fell down a lift shaft.

Investigations in Italy could delay the extradition of a suspect sought by British authorities for the failed London bombings on July 21 and arrested in Rome last week, the suspect’s defence lawyer said today.

A man is being questioned by gardaí following a €5000 drugs seizure in Dublin.

POLICE are searching for a white van seen leaving the Prince William County gas station where a man who may have been the ninth victim of a sniper terrorising the Washington area was fatally shot Wednesday night.

Hundreds of commuters have been cleared from a London underground station after a fire was reported on a rush hour train.