Djokovic played down his latest injury worry after making it through to the fourth round of the Australian Open.

Rafael Nadal will take on Chung Hyeon in the second round of the Paris Masters knowing victory will guarantee he closes out the year as world number one.

Alexa Chung and Marks & Spencer launch a vintage-inspired fashion line next week. Rachel Marie Walsh takes a look at the style icon’s rise and rise

Disgraced former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has claimed there is no coincidence that his lifetime ban has been announced at the same time that Sepp Blatter is engulfed by a storm of controversy.

Even though the last few months hardly felt like a summer, it’s time to start thinking of autumn style. Paula Burns says the way to stay on trend is to go back to the future with 1970s-inspired boots, suedes and fringes.

With clothes from Kendall and Kylie’s debut collection a must-have on the festival circuit this summer, Paula Burns tells us why celebrity collaborations give us a slice of their lives.

Divers have renewed their search for more than 100 bodies still trapped in the sunken South Korean ferry after weekend efforts were hindered by bad weather, strong currents and floating debris clogging the ship’s rooms.

South Korea’s prime minister resigned yesterday over the government’s handling of a ferry sinking that has left more than 300 people dead or missing and led to widespread shame, fury and finger-pointing, blaming “deep-rooted evils” in society for the tragedy.

South Korean police have charged a man for the murder of his two-year-old son after he confessed to suffocating the child so he could leave the house to go back to playing games at an internet cafe.

Rita Ora is excited to be the new face of Superga.

Only Alexa Chung could pull this look off. Hosting the Scottish fashion awards, she wore a white, buttoned-up shirt under a quirky, short, sequinned Christopher Kane shift. Somehow, it works.

'Twilight' actress Kristen Stewart has been crowned the world’s best-dressed woman, beating the Duchess of Cambridge and Victoria Beckham.

Alexa Chung has made her Instagram account private after being subjected to a barrage of abuse about her slim frame.

BOLTON cannot blame injuries for their Barclays Premier League struggles and must “man up” to get themselves out of trouble, according to full-back Gretar Steinsson.

South Korea has offered its condolences to North Korea’s people as they mourn the death of long-time ruler Kim Jong Il.

FORMER FIFA Vice-President Chung Mong-joon has compared Sepp Blatter to a “little brat,” saying he rules the governing body of world football like a dictator.

Arctic Monkeys singer Alex Turner and TV presenter Alexa Chung have reportedly split up.

ONE of fashion’s biggest names, US Vogue editor Anna Wintour, has praised the British fashion industry for having a “sense of humour”.

THIS weekend we may see the first outline of what Ireland’s most powerful man, Indo-Canadian Ajai Chopra, the IMF deputy director of the European Department, has in mind as he attempts to restructure an economy suffering from meltdown.

The burnt bodies of two male civilians have been found on an island attacked by North Korea, South Korean officials said.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone was all smiles following an inspection of the latest venue to join his sport’s growing empire.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter may face a challenge to his position next year from Korea’s FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-Joon.

Alexa Chung has been named the most stylish woman of 2009.

FIFA’s ethics chiefs are to investigate claims of ’vote-buying’ in a bitter contest for one of the 23 seats on the world governing body’s all-powerful executive committee.

South Korea announced pardons for three convicted high-profile corporate tycoons today, part of a traditional presidential amnesty ahead of the country’s Liberation Day.

A former Boeing engineer was today charged with stealing space shuttle secrets for China, the US Justice Department said.

Either Wolves manager Mick McCarthy or former Lyon coach Gerard Houllier is set to be unveiled as the new coach of South Korea, the Korea Football Association announced.

A WOMAN has been awarded €1,000 from a Chinese restaurant in Co Mayo after claiming she was discriminated against on Traveller grounds, even though she is not a Traveller.

Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Mong-koo was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted today of embezzlement over a slush fund scandal.

A ONE-WEEK-OLD dinosaur which develops its own personality depending on how its owner treats it is set to be the must-have toy of 2007.

US and North Korean envoys today ended talks failing to reach an agreement on when to resume six-nation talks on dismantling Pyongyang’s atomic weapons programme.

State prosecutors today requested an arrest warrant for Hyundai Motor Company chairman Chung Mong-koo amid a bribery and slush fund scandal that has rocked South Korea’s largest car manufacturer.

Southeast Asian nations pressed Myanmar’s (Burma’s) generals to get serious about democracy as they opened a summit today aiming for broader Asian integration – an uphill task as shown by a feud raging between China and Japan.

An international panel of Anglican archbishops today called upon a gathering of their conservative American counterparts to split from the rest of the US Episcopal Church unless it abides by traditional teachings.

North Korea’s path to prosperity lies in implementing the promise it made at international disarmament talks to abandon its nuclear programmes, South Korean Finance Minister Han Duck-soo said today.

South Korea today urged North Korea to resolve a stand-off over its nuclear ambitions, describing ongoing international nuclear disarmament talks in Beijing as a historic opportunity to end the dispute.

A US military commander has said the US and South Korea could repel any attack by North Korea even if it had one or two nuclear bombs, as a top South Korean envoy today headed to Washington to push for new disarmament talks with the North.

The Koreas were outlining agreements for aid and boosting cooperation at high-level talks scheduled to wrap up today, with the North Korean delegation also planning a rare meeting with South Korea’s president.

A high-level delegation from North Korea arrived in Seoul today for talks with the rival South in an atmosphere of optimism after North Korean leader Kim Jong-il pledged to seek reconciliation and hinted at a return soon to nuclear disarmament negotiations.

North and South Korean officials today pledged to cooperate and pursue eventual unification as they celebrated the fifth anniversary of a summit between their leaders under the shadow of the international stand-off over the North’s nuclear ambitions.

NORTH Korea said yesterday that the large explosion near its border with China several days ago was a “deliberate detonation of a mountain” as part of a hydroelectric project.

A SENIOR executive with South Korean industrial giant Hyundai, whose business spearheaded reconciliation efforts with North Korea but ended up tangled in debt and scandal, leapt to his death from his 12th-floor office window yesterday.

DISTRAUGHT relatives yesterday spoke of their last conversations with victims of the South Korean arson attacks.