Aidan O'Brien's incredible training talents were advertised in their full glory as Churchill and Winter claimed the first two Classics of the season at Newmarket.

Aidan O'Brien sends three colts into battle in a bid to extend his excellent record in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Douglas Macarthur disappointed as Landfall won the Willis Towers Watson Champions Juvenile Stakes at Leopardstown.

“I have to be careful what I say now, don’t I?’’, are the words Aidan O’Brien reportedly muttered in the wake of his Caravaggio enjoying no more than a leisurely stroll on the way to winning the Group 1 Phoenix stakes at the Curragh last Sunday.

Observing the new intake of Westminster MPs following World War One, Conservative politician Stanley Baldwin remarked on "a lot of hard-faced men who looked as if they had done very well out of the war".

Matthew Fox has been offered a role in 'Emperor'.

US AFGHAN commander Stanley McChrystal was sacked by Barack Obama last night for publicly criticising the President.

US Afghan commander Stanley McChrystal was sacked by Barack Obama tonight for publicly criticising the president.

The US’s Afghanistan war commander General Stanley McChrystal has been called to the White House after President Barack Obama rebuked him for “poor judgement” and considered whether to fire him.

‘PLAY the chunk and run’ has always been Tiger Woods’ top golfing tip and having done that, in every conceivable sense, it looks like he’s about to make a comeback.

AFGHANISTAN said yesterday it hoped the newly named commander of US and NATO troops would do more to avert civilian deaths, which had soured relations under outgoing commander General David McKiernan.

PUBLIC opinion polls in the United States seem to suggest it is all over bar the shouting. If Barack Obama does not win on Tuesday, it will be the biggest surprise since Harry Truman retained the Presidency exactly 60 years tomorrow.

Rescue workers held little hope today of finding more survivors from a devastating Philippines landslide, saying a farming village was swallowed whole by a wall of mud and boulders that killed up to 1,800 people.

IT’S considered bad form to speak ill of the dead, but I must make an exception regarding US Army General William Westmoreland, who passed away at the age of 91 on July 18.

THE US plans to occupy Iraq for 18 months after toppling Saddam Hussein in its most ambitious effort to administer a country since controlling affairs in Germany and Japan after the Second World War.