Coldplay are contemplating a career break once they finish their current world tour - so their fans don't grow sick of their music.

London Irish have signed hooker James Buckland from their Guinness Premiership rivals Wasps.

WASPS captain Lawrence Dallaglio last night hailed the Londoners’ Heineken Cup final victory over Leicester as the greatest Twickenham final of his glittering career.

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A CORONER’S jury has recommended several safety improvements be made to Dublin’s busiest junction where an English tourist was fatally injured by a bus.

Safety improvements have been recommended for Dublin’s busiest junction where an English tourist was fatally injured by a bus, an inquest heard.

A tropical cyclone packing winds of up to 137 mph lashed Australia’s remote north-eastern coast today, a month after another storm left thousands in the region homeless.

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Leicester: Vesty, Murphy, Lloyd, Smith, Hipkiss, Goode, Ellis, Rowntree, Chuter, White, Kay, L. Deacon, Jennings, Moody, Corry. Replacements: Holford, Buckland, Cullen, Abraham, Healey, Cornwell, A. Tuilagi.

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A SLIGO-BORN English visitor, hit by a bus on a day trip to Dublin last week, has died.

Chris Martin has duplicated Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke's idea to compare his band to the United Nations - and Martin insists he would represent the military might of America.

The idea of celebrity is “nonsense” and fame is not all it is cracked up to be, Coldplay’s Chris Martin said today.