Donncha O’Callaghan is edging ever closer to making 400 top class professional appearances in a remarkable career that shows no signs of coming quickly to an end.

Munster A - champions in 2012, begin their challenge for a second B & I Cup title when they take on London Scottish at the Athletic ground in Richmond, London tonight (7.45pm).

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie opened his 2016 campaign for president and, never one to aim small, declared he’s “out to change the world.”

Two window cleaners who were stranded 69 storeys above street level when their cradle partially collapsed have been rescued.

The resurrected World Trade Centre has opened for business again, 13 years after the 9/11 terror attack – marking an emotional milestone for New Yorkers.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie yesterday apologised to his constituents and said he was “embarrassed and humiliated” by his staff but had no idea his aides may have closed highway lanes to exact political retribution.

Mark Anscombe has made two changes to the team that beat Montpellier last Saturday for tomorrow night's game against Cardiff Blues at Ravenhill (kick off 19:05).

Officials are hoping to reopen both runways at New York’s LaGuardia Airport after a plane’s landing gear collapsed, sending it skidding along the tarmac and causing operations to be suspended.

Connacht trio Frank Murphy, Mata Fifita and Brian Murphy have committed to the province by singing contract extensions.

Sale Sharks today confirmed their Scotland international lock Richie Gray is to join French club Castres.

Rob Penney’s men aren’t the only Munster outfit in search of glory across the Irish Sea tomorrow.

Mark McCrea has been released early from his two-year contract with Connacht, moving to Jersey RFC for the remainder of the season and next year.

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Joe Schmidt has made eight personnel changes from the starting XV that lost to Clermont Auvergne at the Aviva Stadium last weekend for Friday's RaboDirect PRO12 derby meeting against Ulster at Ravenhill (7.05pm).

Usually the weekends bring the good vibes and Mondays the backdraft of depression but the status quo was turned on its head for Leinster yesterday with some welcome snippets of positive news to help banish their Saturday night blues.

Leinster and Ireland hooker Richardt Strauss is facing four weeks on the sidelines after sustaining an arm injury in the province’s Heineken Cup defeat to Clermont Auvergne on Saturday.

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Mike Ross is confident his contract talks with the IRFU will result in a deal that keeps him at Leinster well beyond next summer when his current deal is due to expire.

On a weekend when the provinces showed their class in the Heineken Cup, Munster, Ulster and Leinster also had big wins in the British and Irish Cup.

US President Barack Obama will travel to New Jersey later, to assess the damage caused by superstorm Sandy.

Seven alleged victims of Jimmy Savile made complaints to four separate police forces in the UK while the disgraced television presenter was alive.

Convicted child sex offender Gary Glitter raped a girl in Jimmy Savile’s dressing room in front of the television presenter, it has been claimed.

US counterterrorism officials are chasing a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaida threat to use a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington.

NEW YORK CITY was slowly getting back to business as usual after Hurricane Irene, but hundreds of thousands of people who normally travel in from the surrounding area faced a tortuous commute as flooding knocked out transit routes.

A man suspected of killing six people, including his wife and two young children, has been described by friends as a “really good father”.

Flights at a US airport were delayed after 150 turtles crawled onto a runway.

IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn was remanded in custody today accused of a sex attack on a US hotel maid.

The head of the International Monetary Fund was today waiting to be brought before a US court accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

The leader of the International Monetary Fund, a possible candidate for president of France, was pulled off a plane in New York moments before it was to depart for Paris and arrested over sex attack allegations involving a hotel maid.

New York’s airports struggled today to clear a huge backlog of flights that stranded thousands of passengers across the United States.

Structural steel for the 1,776ft tower that will be known as 1 World Trade Centre has risen 200 feet above street level in a tangible sign of ground zero progress since the September 11 2001 terror attacks.

US police said a man of Haitian descent who left the island nation after the devastating earthquake caused a security breach at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport by opening a restricted door.

US senators criticised authorities regarding an airport security breach at the weekend as a video of the incident emerged showing a guard standing nearby as a man followed a woman into the terminal.

The High Court has refused to appoint an examiner to companies in the Liam Carroll-controlled Zoe Group.

The High Court will decide on Thursday whether to appoint an examiner to companies in the Liam Carroll controlled Zoe group.

ACC bank has today urged the High Court to reject an application made on behalf of companies in the Liam Carroll-controlled Zoe group to be placed into examinership.

A second attempt by the Liam Carroll-controlled Zoe Group to be placed into examinership will be heard by the High Court next week.

Developer Liam Carroll was impaired due to stress when he opted to omit important information in his original petition seeking the appointment of an examiner to companies in the Zoe group, the High Court heard today.

An air traffic controller was joking on the phone about barbecuing a dead cat moments before a light aircraft collided with a tour helicopter over the Hudson River, it has been revealed.