THE darkest and most adult of the Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II (12A) brings to a close the epic saga of the teenage wizard’s battle against the forces of evil.

AN ICELANDIC court has ruled the widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer was his lawful wife and should inherit his £1.2 million (€1.4m) fortune.

An Icelandic court has ruled that the widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer was his lawful wife and should inherit his estimated £1.2m (€1.4m) fortune.

The body of US chess champion Bobby Fischer has been exhumed in Iceland for tests to see if he is the father of a nine-year-old girl from the Philippines.

THE remains of former chess champion Bobby Fischer, who died two years ago in Iceland, will be dug up to settle a paternity claim, Iceland’s Supreme Court has ruled.

Reclusive chess genius Bobby Fischer was buried today in a private ceremony at a churchyard in southern Iceland, a television station reported.

IT would be hard to explain to anyone under, say, 40, the international excitement that surrounded America’s Bobby Fischer’s dethronement of Soviet Grandmaster and chess world champion Boris Spassky in 1972.

Controversial former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64 in his adopted home of Iceland.

Montenegro’s government is looking to lease the exclusive Sveti Stefan resort on the Adriatic Sea, a former summer mecca for Hollywood stars that has fallen into decline since the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

REBEL chess legend Bobby Fischer yesterday declared he was finished with a chess world he regards as corrupt.

Bobby Fischer met the press today, his hair and beard neatly trimmed but his opinions still bristling, and declared he was finished with a chess world he regards as corrupt.

CHESS legend Bobby Fischer walked free from a Japanese detention centre early yesterday.

Chess legend Bobby Fischer landed in Denmark for a brief stopover today on the journey to his new home, Iceland, after being released from nine months in a Japanese detention centre.

Supporters of jailed former world chess champion Bobby Fischer said today that the Japanese Justice Ministry has informed them that he will be allowed to leave tomorrow for Iceland, where he has been granted citizenship.

American chess champion Bobby Fischer could be deported to the United States to face tax evasion charges there, it was reported today.

Icelandic immigration authorities agreed today to grant former American chess champion Bobby Fischer a special foreigners' passport which would allow him to travel to western Europe.

Iceland is considering granting citizenship to United States chess legend Bobby Fischer, a parliamentary official said in Reykjavik today.

Iceland has approved a residency permit for Bobby Fischer, but the former chess champion faces hurdles in travelling there because he remains in Japanese custody and lacks a valid passport.

A 16-YEAR-OLD boy has won the US Chess Championship, making him the youngest player to claim the title since 14-year-old Bobby Fischer won it in 1958.

Lawyers have exchanged documents in the first court hearing on detained former chess champion Bobby Fischer’s battle against deportation to the United States.

Troubled former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has won a temporary reprieve from deportation to the US by Japan.

JAPAN rejected former chess champion Bobby Fischer's demand for protection as a political refugee yesterday and issued an order to deport him.

Japan’s Justice Ministry today rejected former chess champion Bobby Fischer’s demand for protection as a political refugee, instead issuing an order to deport him.

FORMER world chess champion Boris Spassky has appealed to US President George W Bush to show mercy to former rival Bobby Fischer and not seek his extradition from Japan, according to a copy of a letter faxed to the media.

FORMER world chess champion Bobby Fischer, detained in Japan for allegedly travelling with a revoked US passport, wants to renounce his American citizenship, his lawyer said yesterday.

FUGITIVE US chess master Bobby Fischer has applied for political asylum in Japan in a new bid to avoid being deported to the United States, where he could face a jail term.

Chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer plans to appeal against a deportation order to the United States next week for the second time and to apply for temporary freedom from a detention centre in Japan, an adviser said today.

Japanese immigration officials have rejected former world chess champion Bobby Fischer’s appeal against their decision to deport him for attempting to travel on an invalid US passport.

FORMER world chess champion Bobby Fischer has appealed against Japanese moves to deport him to the US for travelling on an invalid passport and is seeking political asylum.

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has appealed against Japanese move to deport him to the US for travelling on an invalid passport and is seeking political asylum.

It was not the best move he ever made. After more than 10 years of evading the public eye and US justice officials, former world champion Bobby Fischer has been arrested by Japanese immigration officials after trying to leave the country with an invalid passport.

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has been arrested in Japan by immigration authorities, capping a more than decade-long hunt by US authorities for the elusive legend.