The World Cup ball was billed as the world’s perfectly round football, made with thermally bonded, spherically moulded, 3D panels.

A 16-year-old boy was brought before the Children’s Court today charged with the murder of Dubliner Aidan O‘Kane, who was shot dead at the weekend.

BRITNEY, Tiger, Gandalf and Madonna will soon join the more usual Peters and Janes in Britain’s playgrounds, while Harry Potter may also drop in, according to a new survey of babies’ names.