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The Defiant Ones traces the careers of two of music's most innovative producers and will air on HBO next year.
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Read MoreThe U2 singer's humerus – the largest bone in the arm – was driven through his skin following his bicycle accident in New York.
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Read MoreSpeaking at the Web Summit today, the U2 frontman says he's pleased the band released Songs of Innocence as they did.
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Read MoreThe ceremony will take place in Paris tonight.
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Read MoreAn 'Ambassador of Conscience Award' concert will take place in Dublin in June.
Read MoreHear new material from Bono and The Edge before it hits the shelves...
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Read MoreBelfast has been awash with U2 lookalikes this week as work begins to transform former HP scribe Neil McCormick’s I Was Bono’s Doppelganger memoir into a big screen blockbuster.
Read MoreHe's also hopeful that U2 will have some new material out this year.
Read MoreThe first issue of (RED)Wire digital music magazine will be available for download on December 1 to coincide with World AIDS Day. It's the latest initiative from (RED), the HIV/AIDS organisation whose prime movers include Bono.
Read More(RED), a charity started by U2 frontman Bono, has announced a new initiative to help to raise money for people living with AIDS in Africa, through the medium of music.
Read MoreThe tabloids were aflutter earlier this week at the idea that Bono might be working on the forthcoming Spice Girls record. Unsurprisingly, it's not at all true...
Read MoreCelebrated Japanese architect Tadao Ando was welcomed to Dublin by Bono today.
Read MoreBono's cinematic homage to The Beatles Across The Universe is due to hit America later this month
Read MoreU2 frontman Bono has landed a role in a new musical film inspired by the Beatles.
Read MoreThe popping of corks was extra loud in the Hewson household this New Year as Bono received an honorary knighthood from the Queen.
Read MoreBono is one of a gaggle – or should that be whoop? – of stars appearing in a video for the new Johnny Cash single, ‘God’s Gonna Cut You Down’.
Read MoreBono used Friday October 13’s Oprah Winfrey Show to launch the new iPod nano RED.
Read MoreAs revealed earlier in the year, Bono, Andrea Corr and Gavin Friday are among the artists contributing to the CD Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys.
Read MorePolitical activist and sometime frontman of U2 has taken a new job: he's the editor of the UK Independent, out today.
Read MoreThe U2 frontman will be editor for a day of a UK newspaper to raise awareness of AIDS in Africa.
Read MoreThe U2 frontman will be editor for a day of a UK newspaper to raise awareness of AIDS in Africa. Is the pen really that mighty?
Read MoreHaving previously sung with Frank Sinatra, Bono is helping to celebrate the 80th birthday of that other Italian-American great, Tony Bennett.
Read MoreHe may have missed out on the Nobel Peace Prize, but Bono received due recognition for his humanitarian efforts yesterday when he was named alongside Bill and Melinda Gates as one of Time magzine’s People of the Year.
Read MoreThe bookies got it wrong with 7-1 joint favourites Bono and Bob Geldof pipped to the Nobel Peace Prize by Mohamed ElBaredi, an Egyptian who works with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Read MoreA question mark continues to hang over Bono's motivations for associating with sundry right-wing politicians. Plus: why there has to be an alternative to the dogmatic positions adopted by the Provos and the Indo on the Northern issue.
Read MoreBono newest fashion initiative is based on eco-friendly production in developing countries
Read MoreBono, Colin Powell and Pope John Paul II are among the nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize
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Read MoreHas the world been taken over by the FCC? Bono and Hot Press are the latest to be condemned for using naughty 'f' and 'b' words
Read MoreBono has been invited to the annual awards dinner of the King Centre - the foundation set up in honour of Martin Luther King
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Read MoreBono gets busy with Zucchero and announces the winnng design of the new U2 studios
Read MoreU2 star and opera legend team up to raise money for the Iraqi people
Read MoreThe U2 producer and collaborator enlists the vocal stylings of Emmylou Harris and Bono for forthcoming solo album
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