Gold Cup hero Leading Light made the perfect return to action in the Palmerstown House Estate Irish St Leger Trial Stakes on another fine afternoon for Aidan O’Brien at the Curragh yesterday.

Sir Maximilian ran out a most impressive winner of the Listed Kilfrush Stud Abergwaun Stakes at Tipperary last night.

Eye Of The Storm, who hasn’t made the impact one might have expected this season, can get back on track by landing the Group 3 Ballyroan Stakes at Leopardstown tonight.

Order Of St George gets the nap to land a particularly interesting Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Naas today.

Odds-on favourite Gleneagles and 14/1 shot Jack Naylor grabbed the Group 3 glory in last night’s two-year-old twin features at Leopardstown.

Aidan O’Brien has entered his unbeaten juvenile pair The Great War and War Envoy in Monday’s Alfred Nobel Rochestown Stakes at Naas.

Voters in the economically powerful region of Catalonia have punished the leader who made a referendum over breaking away from Spain a central plank of his campaign, seeing his party’s majority reduced by a dozen seats.

Four separatist parties in Spain’s Catalonia last night looked set to win a majority in regional elections yesterday, partial results showed, but the main one was on course to lose some seats, possibly undermining its bid to call an independence referendum.

A gang of heavily armed rebels has killed many people after attempting to overthrow Haiti’s government during an attack on the National Palace early today.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been sworn in for a second term as Haiti's president.