West Ham 0 Chelsea 1: Champagne celebrations on the Wembley turf on Sunday, hard graft at Upton Park three days later.

A Chinese thief painstakingly wrote out 11 pages of telephone numbers from a stolen iPhone and sent them to the owner.

Usually a loss diminishes your reputation but for Paddy Barnes, following a gut-wrenching countback defeat, he walked out of the ring with his head held high.

John Joe Nevin is hoping to emulate compatriot Katie Taylor with Olympic gold after seeing off world champion Estrada Alvarez to reach the final of the men’s bantamweight division.

Paddy Barnes has been defeated by reigning champion Zou Shiming on countback in his men's Olympic light flyweight semi-final at London's ExCel arena after the fight finished 15-15.

Only five medallists from Beijing have survived as the Olympic boxing tournament in London reaches the semi-finals and two of those will face each other today (1.30pm) when the defending light flyweight champion Shiming Zou will face Ireland’s Paddy Barnes for a third time.

Paddy Barnes made history by becoming the first Irish boxer to win two Olympic medals when he assured himself of another bronze with an emphatic 23-18 victory over Devendro Singh Laishram (India) in an entertaining light flyweight quarter final last night.

CHINESE President Hu Jintao met with earthquake survivors yesterday in a remote, mountainous Tibetan region where rescue supplies were arriving at a faster pace.

British middleweight James DeGale has acknowledged his losing run against Ireland's Darren Sutherland - but insists that it will be different this time.

Irish captain Ken Egan joined compatriot Paddy Barnes on the winners' podium at the Beijing Olympics after he outclassed Brazilian light heavyweight Washington Silva (8-0) over four rounds today.

World and three times European lightweight (60Kg) champion Katie Taylor claimed yet another victory after stopping Canadian Katie Dunn at the University of Illinois in Chicago last night.

PADDY BARNES went the full distance with the world champion, Shiming Zou from China, in their light flyweight quarter final at the World Championships in Chicago but his brave effort ended in the defeat.