The modern Champions League format has little space for romance or novelty — as seen by this week’s fixture list as Arsenal and Bayern Munich, and Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, met again for the upteenth time in recent years.

A former police officer who allegedly admits ordering 1,500 killings during a campaign of terror as a drug gang chieftain along the US border has been captured in northern Mexico, federal officials said.

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ONCE-raced Dirar is the nap choice in the Anthony Duffy Construction Median Auction Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

Andy Mitten meets Barcelona wonder kid Lionel Messi.