ECUADOR coach Luis Fernando Suarez will not announce his starting XI for the game against Costa Rica until the last minute. The Tricolor take on Los Ticos today in Hamburg in what is set to be the biggest game in their history.

IT SEEMS the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is finally getting the powers he so vocally coveted on his recent visit to China.

I AM disgusted that the national anthem is no longer sung in its entirety prior to Irish rugby matches at Lansdowne Road.

FOR a year after 9/11 there were large Stars and Stripes on every avenue in California; people attached little flags to their cars and baseball caps.

The shipwrecked Tricolor could continue to be an obstacle in the world’s busiest shipping lane for months to come, the French Navy said today.

A cargo ship that hit the sunken vessel Tricolor in the English Channel was tonight heading for port under its own power.

THE operation to salvage a cargo ship which sank in the English Channel carrying over €45 million worth of luxury cars was continuing yesterdayThe Tricolor, a Norwegian-registered car carrier, had 2,862 BMWs, Volvos and Saabs on board bound for British and US showrooms when it collided with the Bahamas-registered container ship Kariba in bad weather 30 miles east of Ramsgate.

Bad weather today hampered the salvage operation on a cargo ship which sank in the English Channel taking with it £30 million of luxury cars.

Efforts to salvage a cargo ship which sank in the English Channel while carrying €46.5m worth of luxury cars are continuing today.

A cargo ship which has sunk after a collision in the English Channel was carrying more than 2,800 brand new cars.