'Gone Baby Gone' keeps you guessing

When a little girl vanishes from her bedroom in one of Boston’s poorest neighbourhoods, her distraught mother (Amy Ryan) makes a television appeal for her safe return.

Ireland scrap South Africa plan

Ireland have shelved plans to play South Africa at a neutral “non-traditional” venue in November after running out of time.

Live Earth back with solar aim

INDIA is to host a Live Earth concert later this year, featuring stars from the world of music, film and television, to raise funds for solar energy.

Sack for teacher sent home 'in disgrace' from school trip

A TEACHER at one of Scotland's leading fee-paying schools, sent home in apparent disgrace from a student expedition to East Africa, has now been sacked.

NATAS circles grow

Film News: Donahue, Bergen, Williams honored -- The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Pacific Southwest chapter, has inducted six new members into its prestigious gold and silver circles.

TVNZ VOD pacts for ABC shows

Business News: Disney-owned channel pacts with Ondemand -- The Asia Pacific arm of Disney-ABC Intl. Television has inked a deal with Kiwi pubcaster TVNZ to provide its skeins on its fledgling online delivery service TVNZ Ondemand.

Canadian unions seek strike mandate

Business News: Current deal expired on June 30 -- After 17 months of negotiations with reps of the ad business, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is seeking a strike mandate from its membership.

Candian unions seek strike mandate

Business News: Current deal expired on June 30 -- After 17 months of negotiations with reps of the ad business, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is seeking a strike mandate from its membership.

Tiger Wishes Team Well, But Won't Attend Ryder Cup

The closest Tiger Woods will get to the Ryder Cup is in front of his television.

Hansen unhappy with alleged filming incident

New Zealand assistant coach Steve Hansen has accused an Australian television station of supplying footage to the Wallabies ahead of the Tri-Nations decider last Saturday.

Weather disrupts Ryder preparations

A television tower and a number of trees were sent crashing by 60mph gusts at Valhalla yesterday on the eve of the European and American teams’ arrival for the Ryder Cup starting on Friday.

Football fans 'being turned off by costs'

Premier League clubs may be courting Arab trillionaires but it is a different story for their supporters, the majority of whom are being priced out of watching live football on television, according to a new survey.

Casting directors pact with AMPTP

Business News: Tentative labor deal reached for new contract -- Casting directors have reached a tentative deal for a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. The AMPTP made the announcement Friday morning, following three days of negotiations with reps for Intl.  Brotherhood of Teamsters.
 

Du Toit Wins 4th Gold At Paralympics

Natalie Du Toit of South Africa won her fourth gold medal in swimming
at the Beijing Paralympics, taking the 400-meter freestyle on Friday in
a world-record time for her disability group.

Pizza sales up as diners stay at home

Cash-strapped consumers are shunning restaurant meals and ordering takeaways at home, Domino’s Pizza said today as it forecast better than expected full-year profits.

No Irish stores affected by planned M&S closures

Marks & Spencer has confirmed that no Irish stores will be among the 27 that the retailer is planning to close in response to a fall in sales.

M&S stocks up despite dismal sales figures

Retailer Marks & Spencer’s shares rose almost 6% today despite its worse sales performance for nearly a decade.

Barclays to axe 400 IT jobs in the UK

Banking giant Barclays is to axe 400 jobs in its IT departments after a review of its operations, it was announced today.

M&S food store closure costs 37 jobs in North

The Marks & Spencer Simply Food store in Newtownards is facing closure with the loss of 37 jobs, it was announced today.

FTSE rally comes to abrupt end

The six-day rally on the FTSE 100 Index was brought to an abrupt end today as falling commodity stocks put pressure on miners and oil majors.

Little movement for ISEQ

The ISEQ index of Irish shares closed at 2, 621.56 this evening, an increase of just 41 points or 0.02%.

Poor showing for Dow

A warning from tech giant Intel about poor business conditions and more evidence of rising unemployment left US stocks with their biggest losses in a month today.

NHL Suspends Ruutu 2 Games For On-Ice Bite

Ottawa Senators forward Jarkko Ruutu has been suspended by the NHL for
two games without pay for biting Buffalo Sabres enforcer Andrew Peters.

BC Fires Jagodzinski After Coach Meets With Jets

Boston College fired Jeff Jagodzinski on Wednesday, days after he was
warned of dismissal if he interviewed for the coaching job with the New
York Jets.