It is deadline day for AC Milan in their attempts to keep David Beckham in Italy – and the England midfielder remains hopeful a deal can be struck with the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Paddy Barnes will get Ireland's quest for an Olympic boxing medal underway today when he meets Polish light flyweight Lukasz Maszczyk in a high noon quarter-final showdown at the Worker's Indoor Arena in Beijing.

Portugal’s attorney general is to announce on Monday what he intends to do about the police investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

Peter Chapple-Hyam admits to feeling the nerves as Vodafone Derby hero Authorized prepares for his first test against older horses in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown.

UEFA are expected to give Liverpool a place in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League today.

Ireland’s hopes of landing a first RBS 6 Nations title for two decades were in danger of being dealt a major blow today with injury updates due on Brian O’Driscoll and Gordon D’Arcy.

FOLLOWING the D-Day ceremonies for the soldiers who unflinchingly went into battle to liberate Europe from the Nazis 60 years ago, Britain’s newspapers wondered yesterday if today’s generation of young Europeans would be ready to make the same sacrifice.

Europe’s number one sprinter Dwain Chambers fights for his career today when a UK Athletics independent disciplinary committee rules on his positive drug test.