West Ham 3 Watford 1: Andy Carroll and Mark Noble were on target as West Ham kept their chances of a top-four finish alive with a 3-1 win over Watford.

Watford 1 Everton 1: Heurelho Gomes lauded a “great result” for Watford after they ended their run of four successive Barclays Premier League defeats with a 1-1 draw against Everton at Vicarage Road.

Watford 1 Leeds United 0: Defeated Leeds manager Steve Evans has hailed cup counterpart Quique Sanchez Flores as a “fantastic addition” to the Barclays Premier League.

Tottenham 1 Watford 0: Erik Lamela believes Tottenham have momentum in the title race after this deserved win lifted them to second spot.

Brought up as the eldest of seven, Clár was always interested in words. 

Watford 2 Newcastle 1

Vardy has recovered from a minor groin surgery in time for tonight's big game.

Watford 1 Manchester City 2: Manuel Pellegrini expects Sergio Aguero to launch another goalscoring run as Manchester City step up their hunt for the quadruple.

Watford 1 Tottenham 2: If Tottenham have ambitions to do more than simply finish in the top four, they will need more performances like this, where they showed character and resilience to grind out a somewhat fortuitous victory against a Watford side reduced to 10 men for the final half-hour.

Aston Villa 2 Watford 3: Remi Garde is contemplating changes in a bid to plug Aston Villa’s leaky defence.

Arsene Wenger faced an angry supporter at last week’s shareholder Annual General Meeting when he was accused of overseeing an ‘embarrassing’ run of recent results in the Champions League.

Watford 0 Crystal Palace 1: Alan Pardew hailed the resoluteness of Wilfried Zaha, who was publicly rebuked by the Eagles boss after being hauled off at half-time in the defeat to Tottenham last week.

Watford 1 Swansea 0: Captain Troy Deeney feared Watford would be made to rue a host of missed chances before Odion Ighalo scored a second-half winner against Swansea.

Man City 2 Watford 0: For Manchester City, the club records are being countered with caution; they may look unstoppable in both the Premier League and the transfer market as August closes, but no one at the Etihad Stadium expects this to be a trouble-free season. Friday’s Champions League draw gave notice of the difficulties that lie ahead.

Watford boss Quique Sanchez Flores has backed Troy Deeney to open his Premier League goal account soon.

Chelsea 3 Watford 0

The father of a teenager who survived a five-hour flight from California to Hawaii tucked in a jet’s wheel well has said his son missed Africa, where he used to live, and was struggling at school.

'The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug' leads the Jameson Empire Film Award nominations.

Jack Rodwell was handed only his fourth start of the season as Manchester City hosted Championship side Watford in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

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Two boxes of charred body parts found in Kenya’s Westgate Mall may be those of the gunmen who killed more than 60 people in the shopping centre last month, officials believe.

"They're not here to fish" - cast and director talk about 'Captain Phillips', the new thriller based on the 2009 hijacking of a US container ship by Somali pirates

Crystal Palace 1 Watford 0 (AET)

Watford 3 Leicester City 1 (Watford win 3-2 on agg)

Watford 1-2 Hull City

Somali pirates who have been holding a hijacked ship for nearly two years killed a Syrian hostage crew member and wounded another to protest over a delayed ransom payment, a pirate leader said.

Celtic 1 Udinese 1

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger made two changes to his starting XI as the Gunners began life without Cesc Fabregas by taking on Udinese in tonight’s Champions League play-off first leg at the Emirates Stadium.

Three Mountjoy Prison inmates have received consecutive sentences for their roles in a riot that caused a five hour lock-down and left prison officers with broken teeth.

A heroin dealer in Cork city was jailed for six years today, as the drugs squad said the problem had surfaced in the area over a year ago.

A stampede after an Islamic religious seminar killed at least 29 women and children and injured more than 70 others in Karachi today.

About 2,000 outraged members of the Somali community in Columbus, Ohio, were expected to protest outside City Hall today to demand justice for the death of a mentally ill immigrant shot by a sheriff’s deputy.

A Somali living in Ohio has been charged with plotting with other al-Qaida operatives to blow up a US shopping mall.

A consultant psychiatrist who said a father accused of the murder of his 20-month-old son was not insane did not interview the man’s wife or family and did not speak to any of the professionals who had dealt with him around the time of the killing, a jury has heard.

A consultant psychiatrist at the Central Mental Hospital has directly contradicted the diagnosis of two consultant psychiatrists called by the defence in the trial of a father accused of the murder of his 20-month-old son.

A father accused of the murder of his 20-month-old son was suffering from an abnormality of the mind at the time he took his son by the feet and swung his head against a kitchen wall, a consultant psychiatrist has told the Central Criminal Court.