It's 'The Vertigo Tour', dates are announced on Monday, Kings of Leon are on board and U2.Com will have the itinerary first.

Readers of Rolling Stone magazine have made U2 'Best Band' and 'Artist of the Year' in their annual poll... and that's not all.

'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own', the second single from 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb', will be released by Universal Island Records outside Canada, the US and South America on 7th February.

Digital download sales overtook those of 'physical' singles in the UK in 2004 - and U2's 'Vertigo' was the best-seller.

U2 are nominated for two 'Brits' at the leading UK music awards show next month.

That's how novelist Salman Rushdie describes the unique relationship between U2 and longtime photographer Anton Corbijn.

The answer, for young bands today is simple, says Edge, in the second part of the NME interview.

"I'm sure there ...

Check the first of our exclusive extracts from the recently published photo-documentary of U2's touring history - 'U2 Show'.

The video for U2's new single in North America, 'All Because of You', will premiere on the ABC network in ...

Bono and Bill Gates of Microsoft argue for a better deal for the poor of the world in 2005.

U2 fans have helped deliver fourteen wells in Africa, providing water for up to 20,000 people.

The African Well Fund was ...

The band are on the cover of the Christmas edition of the UK's NME - and reviewing 2004.

Maybe we should have called this one Man.' Great read in Rolling Stone on how U2 'closed the circle' ...

The single release of 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own' will feature a Bono/Pavarotti performance on the B-side.

'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' has now sold one million copies in the UK - and is in ...

Voting has just opened in the annual 'Shockwaves NME Awards'. You-know-who are in contention...

Dublin's Gaiety Theatre was the venue yesterday, as the band shot a video for 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On ...

'All Because of You' is to be U2's second single in North America, while 'Sometimes You Can't Make it On ...

Bono is to be guest editor of the UK's most influential political radio programme later this month.

He will take over ...

'MTV Jammed U2', shot when the band played live in Brooklyn two weeks ago, will air on MTV this Friday.

U2 have received three Grammy nominations for the single 'Vertigo' - the new album will not be eligible till next year. ...

"The job of art is to chase away ugliness", Bono tells Chuck Klosterman for the cover story of the new ...

'Ireland's biggest boy band' performing on 'Friday Night With Jonathan Ross' tonight.

'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' has gone straight to the top of the US chart, the fifth time U2 have been at No.1 simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic.

Edge, Adam and Bono were among the glitterati in London this evening, at the opening night of the first London exhibition by painter and lifelong U2 friend Guggi.