More than a dozen great white sharks have been spotted along the Southern California coast, sparking urgent warnings to paddle-boarders to get out of the water.

The Cold War is heading for deep freeze as Bridge of Spies (12A) opens in 1957 with the capture of Russian spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) in New York. 

ANTONIO Muñoz Molina is one of Spain’s leading contemporary novelists. 

Ex Machina ****

Sci-fi thriller Ex Machina, Johnny Depp stars as a bumbling buffoon in comedy Mortdecai, New York-set drama A Most Violent Year and Mark Wahlberg plays a professor with a gambling addiction in The Gambler.

Champions League Group B

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Will Arnett has filed for divorce from his estranged wife Amy Poehler.

Noah, the story of the ark, is the first of a ‘raft’ of religious movies due on our screens as Hollywood eyes the 50m US weekly churchgoers, says Declan Burke.

Live music: Ms Mr - Academy, Dublin

In what’s being billed as a Cain and Abel-style clash of the titans, two Cork brothers go head-to-head in the boxing ring before nearly 1,000 spectators.

Amy Poehler has moved on from Will Arnett.

Cain

Will Smith is set to make his directorial debut with 'The Redemption of Cain'.

THE “resilience” of the victim must be recognised as a key to overcoming the trauma of crime, and victims should not be pressurised into feeling they needed to forgive, a leading Dutch criminologist has said.

TWO late goals by Portugal brought a disappointing end to a promising Ireland U21 performance in last night’s friendly.

Portugal Under-21 2 Republic of Ireland Under-21 0

WAYNE ROUTLEDGE marked his second QPR debut with a goal as the npower Championship leaders came from behind to sink Coventry yesterday.

NOBEL literature prize winner Jose Saramago, who left his native Portugal after arguing with his country’s government, has died at the age of 87, his Spanish publisher said yesterday.

Blood Over Water by David and James Livingston. Bloomsbury; £18.99

Everton 2 Sporting Lisbon 1

Everton 2 Sporting Lisbon 1

Pelt-clad primitives Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) are incompetent and lazy and don’t pull their weight like the other men in their village.

BAYERN MUNICH put one foot in the last eight, putting five goals past Sporting Lisbon in the Portuguese capital.

Samuel L. Jackson used his own confrontations with racist cops as inspiration for his role in latest movie 'Lakeview Terrace'.

A FORMER nurse at a Cork hospital was fined €3,000 yesterday for stealing quantities of drugs from a medical store at the hospital and forging the signatures of other medical staff in the process.

RANGERS captain Barry Ferguson insists his players can cope without him in the UEFA Cup semi-final first leg after he picked up a silly booking in the Gers victory over Sporting Lisbon.

RANGERS dreams of European glory took a knock when they drew a blank against Sporting Lisbon in their UEFA Cup quarter-final first-leg clash at Ibrox.

GARY MEGSON paid the price for fielding an under-strength side as Bolton followed Everton and Spurs out of this season’s UEFA Cup at the last-16 stage.

Sporting Lisbon 3 Dynamo Kiev 0

Cristiano Ronaldo saw off his old club for the second time this season in the Champions League – and then claimed his Manchester United team can win the competition.

WINNING the Champions League for only the second time as manager is what keeps Alex Ferguson motivated after 21 years at Old Trafford and he got another pointer as to his team’s potential to achieve that dream last night.

Manchester United 2 Sporting Lisbon 1

Cristiano Ronaldo and Nemanja Vidic return for Manchester United tonight as they seek to clinch top spot in Champions League Group F.

Wayne Rooney returned to Manchester United’s starting line-up for the first time since the opening day of the season as Alex Ferguson’s men tackled Sporting Lisbon to kick off their latest Champions League quest.

Middlesbrough have confirmed defender Abel Xavier will leave the club this summer after failing to agree a new contract.

Middlesbrough defender Abel Xavier is included in the squad for the first time since completing his year-long drugs ban for tomorrow’s Barclays Premiership clash with West Ham.

Abel Xavier gets a chance to stake a claim for a new deal at Middlesbrough when he returns to action for the reserves tonight after completing a year-long drugs ban.

ATTEMPTS to brush up the image of Judas Iscariot are not exactly big news.

Middlesbrough defender Abel Xavier has vowed to fight his 18-month drugs ban in court after testing positive for an anabolic steroid.