Jake Gyllenhaal has joined the cast of 'Let it Snow'.

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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers believes Divock Origi "can light up world football" after the Belgium striker completed his £10 million (€12.6m) move to Anfield yesterday.

Franck Ribery has likened his World Cup absence to "a death in the soul".

'Britain's Got Talent' finalists Jonathan Antoine and Charlotte Jaconelli have signed a £1m (€1.25m) record deal.

Music legend Fats Domino has returned to the home that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina for the first time since the 2005 storms.

Manchester City manager Stuart Pearce will be keeping an eye out for a mysterious ‘man in black’ ahead of his team’s friendly encounter with Japanese side Kashima Antlers in Shanghai tomorrow.

FRANCE’S Antoine Deneriaz caused a sensation yesterday by storming to the Olympic Games men’s downhill gold medal ahead of the Austrian and American favourites in alpine skiing’s blue-riband event.

Robert Gueiguion’s captivating The Last Mitterrand (Fox, €21.99) takes the form of a verbal duel as a young writer Antoine (Jalil Lespert) interviews President Francois Mitterrand (the excellent Michel Bouquet), slowly stripping away the latter’s cool exterior to reveal a remarkably intelligent mind at work, anxious to protect his political legacy.

Manchester City boss Kevin Keegan has already ruled Antoine Sibierski out of the Premiership clash with Chelsea on October 16.

Manchester City are facing a midfield injury crisis ahead of Saturday’s televised match at Southampton.

A Lebanese businessman was freed today after about one week in captivity in Iraq, his father said.

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A man threw a grenade at police detectives and injured four before being shot dead by the officers near Beirut tonight, Lebanese security officials said.

Detectives were today investigating the death of a mother who apparently hanged herself after killing her two young children in their bedrooms.