An Australian TV newsreader broke down in tears during a live broadcast when she realised her connection to one of the victims of yesterday's siege at a Sydney cafe.

The defence team for Oscar Pistorius plans to close its case this morning after its last witness, a physician who has treated the athlete, completed his testimony at the murder trial, a lawyer said.

The family of Oscar Pistorius has accused an Australian TV channel of illegally obtaining video footage which shows the athlete moving quickly without his prosthetic legs.

One of the Australian DJs who made a prank call to the hospital where Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge was being treated during her pregnancy has admitted she "should have tried harder" to stop the call going to air.

The first mow of grass and the ball is thrown in ahead of another long summer. This year’s championship will be successful for some and a let-down for others, but one thing on many people’s minds is the new TV deal.

Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris was a “Jekyll and Hyde” character whose “untouchable” reputation allowed him to carry out a string of alleged indecent assaults on under-age girls, a court has heard.

The chairmen of the Cork and Kerry county boards have criticised the GAA’s decision to agree to a single International Rules Test in Australia this November.

GAA president Liam O’Neill is convinced people will have a deeper understanding of the Sky Sports media rights deal after yesterday’s Oireachtas committee on transport and communications debate.

From next month to September, 45 Championship games will be shown live on TV.

The GAA is a conservative and traditional organisation but it is far from backward.

So big, bad Sky Sports are going to broadcast Gaelic Games. The GAA has sold out. Profit has replaced principles. And the ordinary Gael has been shafted once again.

At this September’s Ryder Cup, the European and US players will emerge from a tunnel into the amphitheatre of the first tee. Before a ball is struck, it will make for great TV.

GAA president Liam O’Neill admits he is nervous about the organisation’s decision to make live championship games available to Sky Sports.

The Philadelphia 76ers couldn’t have picked a worse time to record their first win in 27 attempts.

I DON’T know when I had cabbage like it. The right amount of firmness, so tasty it must have been grown on volcanic soil fertilised by contented, opinionated cattle and cooked in water from one of those ads where the water surges free off a mountain that had trapped it since antiquity.

An Australian woman convicted of smuggling marijuana into Indonesia in 2005 has been released from jail on parole.

The first victim from the Costa Concordia disaster was identified today - a 38-year-old violinist from Hungary who had been working as an entertainer on the stricken cruise ship.

Some of Ireland’s finest young players have headed Down Under in search of a career as a professional sportsman. While, the allure of Sydney and Australia’s other attractions fill many a dream, the reality for Tommy Walsh, Michael Quinn, Chris McKaigue and Setanta Ó hAilpÍn also includes bouts of homesickness and a punishing schedule.

Explosive eruptions shook two huge volcanos in Central and South America, forcing thousands to flee their homes and disrupting air traffic as ash drifted over major cities.

Explosive eruptions shook two huge volcanos in Central and South America today, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and disrupting air traffic as ash drifted over wide regions.

An aeroplane crashed into an air traffic control tower today after landing on the popular Thai resort island of Samui, an airport official said.

Naomi Watts was among the family and close friends who attended a private memorial for late actor Heath Ledger in Los Angeles on Saturday night.

A prisoner who was having marital problems killed his wife during a conjugal visit in a Costa Rican jail, officials said.

Actor Heath Ledger has apologised to the presenters of Australian TV show Sunrise after he ignored reporters' questions and focused on peeling an orange during an interview.

JUDGING by Clive Woodward’s look of thunder it was just as well the Channel 7 cameraman was filming from the open door of a hovering helicopter.

Bushfires destroyed the set of popular TV soap Home and Away today as searing summer temperatures wreaked havoc around Australia’s biggest city.

A journalist in northeastern Thailand sprayed rival reporters with bullets over allegations of bribe-taking.

David Beckham is the star sports chiefs want to kick off next year's Commonwealth Games in Manchester.