Action from the 1st leg of the UEFA Champions League Quarter Final ties on TV3 at 7.30pm tonight.

Disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder is to make his first ever appearance in Ireland at the Electric Picnic festival in September, it was announced today.

The US Senate blocked bipartisan legislation yesterday aimed at tightening restrictions on the sale of firearms.

Conservative senators from both political parties are backing wider background checks for gun buyers, but it remains unclear if President Barack Obama can push significant weapon controls through the US Congress.

Barack Obama today said he supported giving the US Treasury Department “broad authority” to deal with the economic crisis.