Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

Good morning. Here’s everything you need to know before you start your day.

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

Parts from the roof of a World Cup stadium in Brazil fell on to the pitch during a storm, just hours before a regional championship.

Big Buck’s lost his unbeaten run over hurdles when he was relegated into a narrow third by shock winner Knockara Beau and At Fishers Cross in the galliardhomes.com Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham.

A US businessman says he told federal investigators the location of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan years before his killing and is seeking a US $25m reward.

IT’S the part of the internet that makes you a little sheepish. You’re filling out a form, typing in your name and address, and then the website asks for your ZIP code.

THERE is an old adage about the wine industry that if you want to make a small fortune, you need to invest a very large one first.

A teaser trailer for the sequel to Marvel superheroes movie Avengers Assemble has been shown at the Comic-Con event in San Diego.

HE is affable, personable and courteous, but also cold and logical.

It’s served by dozens of direct flights, and spilling over with great shops, restaurants, museums and shows. It’s London, baby, and it’s time you paid another visit, says Pól Ó Conghaile.

SAMOA, marshalled by dynamic Crusader’s half-back Kahn Fotuali’i, is a world-class unit that combines the qualities of raw power and unbridled flare that has characterised Pacific rugby for decades.

Ricky Gervais's hapless sidekick Karl Pilkington has landed his own travel series visiting the Seven Wonders of the World, it was announced today.

Space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts blazed into orbit on a spectacular midnight flight to the international space station, transporting a treadmill named after a TV comedian, mice and thousands of pounds of more solemn supplies.

Muirhead looks like being Noel Meade’s sole representative in the Toshiba Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown next Sunday.

SUNDAY WORLD crime editor Paul Williams was among a number of journalists, newspaper editors and media organisations fined €60,000, plus legal costs, by a High Court judge.

Eoin Griffin insists there is more to come this season from smart staying hurdler Kazal, who returns to the track in the Grade Two Philips Electronics Lismullen Hurdle at Navan on Sunday.

Tom Cruise has finally been given permission by the German government to film at a World War II memorial site in Berlin for his new movie, 'Valkyrie'.

SIX days before Ireland flew out to their Rugby World Cup base in Bordeaux, Malcolm O’Kelly was surveying the future.

Santa Claus came to town today – less than 48 hours after the hottest day of the year in Britain.

One of controversial director Stone’s least political films and one of his best tells the true story of John McLoughlin (Cage) and William J. Jimeno (Pena), two of the last survivors of the World Trade Center attack.

Batman & Robin star Alicia Silverstone had an awful premonition the morning she woke up to the 9/11 atrocities that a family member was dead.

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have received new guidelines to deal with high and rising oil prices, trade gaps and other problems that threaten to disrupt global economic growth.

Golden Cross made heavy weather of landing the odds in the McCabe Builders Ltd Boyne Hurdle in Navan.

Four children and two adults were killed this morning in a fire in the Fim do Mundo (End of the World) shantytown in Cascais, about 25 miles west of Lisbon.

Once again at Epsom it was a case of ‘horses for courses’ today as those with proven ability to handle the ups and downs of the unique track took the honours.

New York police searched trucks, blocked streets and posted machine-gun carrying officers outside financial landmarks a day after the government’s warning that terrorists might target the buildings with bombs.

The father of a Briton killed in the September 11 attacks spoke today of how the horrors of the tragedy appeared inescapable two years on.

THROUGHOUT the western world — Europe, the USA and Canada, Australia and here in New Zealand — there is an extraordinary debate as to the appropriate legal status for cannabis, with often sharply-divided opinion ranging from those advocating a harsh old-style crackdown through to a growing chorus of users, police and medics who want a more liberal law and a separation of cannabis from hard drug dealers.

Residents of a Romanian village have been banned from drinking in public to avoid upsetting Nicole Kidman.

Two passengers were arrested after making threatening remarks to flight attendants on separate flights in America and Argentina.

Unemployment has soared in New York in the wake of the World Trade Centre attacks, it was announced today.

A $5m reward has been offered for information about the World Trade Center and Pentagon terror strikes.

FBI director Robert Mueller has said that 4,000 special agents, 3,000 support personnel and 300 lab workers have been deployed at various sites around the US as part of the investigation into the World Trade Centre bombings.