“We strongly believe the Eurovision Song Contest has the potential to evolve organically into a truly global event. Australia’s continued participation is an exciting step in that direction.”

An Irish scientist has won the Nobel prize in medicine for his work combating river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.

The controversy over the recent arrest of Irish Water protesters after Tánaiste Joan Burton was trapped in a car has spread abroad.

A new study has put Dublin as the best place in Europe - and second in the entire world - for US citizens to live in.

Consideration is been given to staging show jumping at a number of greyhound stadia next year.

U2 have announced the dates for the world tour of their Songs Of Innocence album.

Morrissey has announced dates for his European tour.

Mick Jagger inspired by ABBA museum

Justin Bieber has been behaving like a bad boy to boost his career, R&B singer Brian McKnight has claimed.

Wexford TD Mick Wallace has spoken of how he and Dublin North TD Clare Daly paid a visit to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for nearly 14 months.

President Barack Obama’s national security adviser has conceded there are legitimate questions about US spying on its allies, as America sought to soothe Brazil’s concerns about far-reaching surveillance by the National Security Agency.

Barack Obama worked yesterday to persuade sceptical politicians to endorse a US military intervention in Syria.

Three women held prisoner in a run-down home for a decade kept diaries documenting the horrific physical and sexual abuse they suffered on a daily basis, it has emerged, as their captor faces sentence today.

Beyonce was slapped on the butt by a male fan during her show in Denmark last night.

One Irish man had a hell of a weekend.

Dublin’s Conor McGregor made an immediate splash in his UFC debut on Saturday night, knocking out Marcus Brimage in just 67 seconds at UFC on Fuel 9 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Kidnapped aid workers could be saved by a new hi-tech bracelet which uses Facebook and Twitter to alert millions of people to a hostage crisis.

Beyonce has unveiled plans for a world tour, including two dates in Ireland.

Rihanna has racked up over €249,000 of fines on her '777' tour.

Rihanna will play seven gigs across seven countries during her '777' world tour.

Every aspiring scientist dreams of some day making a discovery so illustrious that it lands them a spot on the stage of the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

A naked man has been arrested outside Orlando Bloom's home, it has emerged.

One Direction are recording their second album.

Eating two rashers of bacon a day can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19% and the risk goes up if a person eats more, experts have said.

SUCCESS eluded the three Irish riders in Saturday’s Global Champions Tour final in Abu Dhabi, with Billy Twomey coming out best in 13th.

Rihanna has been ordered by doctors to curb her partying lifestyle.

Robert Pattinson says he and girlfriend Kristen Stewart could already be married.

NEGOTIATIONS about the future of the 2012 Irish Open are ongoing with a June 28 to July 1 date favourite to get the green light according to sources close to the European Tour.

A £10bn (€11.4bn) deal between British oil giant BP and Russian government-owned Rosneft is on hold today after a tribunal ruled it breached agreements with other partners.

BRITISH Police patrolled transport hubs across London yesterday amid growing fears of a terrorist attack.

The US embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, has stepped up security after receiving an unspecified threat.

SHOW jumper Billy Twomey looked to be motoring in the €150,000 grand prix at the Audi Masters in Brussels, Belgium, yesterday until an unexpected two refusals with Je t’Aime Flamenco at the double put the brakes on his effort.

AN Irish-made medicine has been shown to reduce death and hospitalisation due to heart failure by more than a quarter in a worldwide study.

A NEWBORN baby from Cork who is fighting for his life at a Swedish hospital underwent further surgery on Sunday after doctors became concerned about the positioning of tubes in his heart.

Metallica rocker James Hetfield has nerves of steel - he has revisited a restaurant blamed for his bout of food poisoning in March.

Martti Ahtisaari has received the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for mediating in some of the world’s thorniest conflicts.

Helicopters evacuated passengers from a Finnish ferry in the Baltic Sea early today after a fire broke out in the engine room, rescue officials said.

A DUBLIN man who has recouped more than $1m (€645,000) in owed wages for international seafarers docking in Ireland has received international acclaim for his efforts.

Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today and called on humanity to mobilise at once against the dangers of a changing climate.

Al Gore and the UN climate panel’s chief scientist will accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway today for sounding the alarm over what the former US vice president called the “planetary emergency” of global warming.

Former US vice president Al Gore and the United Nations’ chief climate scientist met Norwegian leaders early today to kick off the official programme leading up to them accepting the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo tomorrow.

Discoveries of planets orbiting stars outside the solar system, efforts to better understand the weather and work on carbon tubes are among the discoveries that could win the Nobel Prize in physics today.