Since March of this year, the A Head Full Of Dreams Tour has played to 2.5 million people across Latin America, the US and Europe, including four sold-out nights at London’s Wembley Stadium.

OUTSMARTING CANCER: The number of cases of ovarian cancer could be reduced if more at-risk women were offered pre-emptive surgery, experts have said. 

The mother of a 23-year-old man who was beaten unconscious and left to drown in the River Shannon has said she cannot forget her son’s “massacred face” when she closes her eyes.

Ah, good old fight gameMonopoly - having just turned 80 years old, the creator of more family arguments than any other form of recreation is releasing a special round-the-world edition.

Morrissey has announced dates for his European tour.

STUDENTS have been making an exhibition of themselves for 50 years at the Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.

Japan has drastically scaled back its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, possibly complicating efforts to forge a global climate change pact.

Mark Ronson has confirmed he's recorded new material with Sir Paul McCartney.

Charges are expected to be brought against the bosses of an international sex trafficking gang arrested in Ireland last month.

A man and a woman are being questioned by gardaí following raids linked to suspected human trafficking.

Madonna has announced her 2012 World Tour. It includes a July 24 date in Dublin's Aviva Stadium.

A COMPANY spearheaded by the failed presidential candidate Mary Davis went into the red last year due to the costs of holding the 2010 Special Olympics Ireland Games.

Investigators were today searching for flight recorders in the shattered remains of an airliner that crashed on the banks of the Volga River, killing 43 people including most of one of Russia's premier hockey teams.

Irish IT marketing agency TSL Marketing has announced that it has opened an operations office in Warsaw, Poland.

EUROPEAN Rugby chiefs insist the Heineken Cup and Amlin Challenge Cup semi-finals will go ahead as scheduled despite the travel chaos caused by the eruption of a volcano in Iceland.

Madonna says Jesus Luz is "the love of her life".

THE government body for integrating asylum seekers has been accused of “stifling political debate” by not allowing canvassing at hostels.

Veteran rocker Iggy Pop has been blasted after using a racist term during a live interview with the BBC.

Roman Polanski will be presented with a lifetime achievement award from the European Film Academy later this year.

THE Turk who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 will be released from prison on Thursday, but he then may be tried in a military court for allegedly dodging the draft and escaping military custody, an official said yesterday.

After years of planning, countless hours of travel and more than 11 hours waiting crushed in a crowd, thousands of young pilgrims got their reward - seeing the Pope.

Peter Woodman