Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel fired his police superintendent after it took 13 months to charge a white policeman with the shooting death of a black teenager.

Andy Lee’s big showdown with Peter ‘Kid Chocolate’ Quillin is now a non-title fight after the American failed to make the weight limit.

Winning a world championship was a dream for Andy Lee, all the more so after two major career-threatening defeats and then the passing of his legendary mentor Emanuel ‘Manny’ Steward. 

IT SEEMED wholly appropriate that Andy Lee landed the punch that clinched this world title, the very same belt won by Steve Collins 20 years ago, moments after he had been rocked himself.

Dressed in a black tracksuit with matching baseball cap, Andy Lee looks out from the vast balcony in his penthouse suite at the Las Vegas Cosmopolitan.

Star Wars creator George Lucas has picked Chicago to host his much-anticipated museum of art and movie memorabilia, in a major victory for the US' third-largest city.

Former Ireland B international Lewis Emanuel has been sentenced to eight years in prison for his part in a post office armed robbery in May.

Westlife singer Kian Egan has been crowned king of the jungle on 'I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!'.

We now know who will contest the final of 'I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!'

Fashion designer David Emanuel won eight meals for his campmates despite being “bitten alive” in a trial called As Scream on TV on I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!

In a week where all things African were celebrated throughout the world we talked to some Afro-Irish about how important celebrating their African culture is.

Irish middleweight Andy Lee will face Anthony Fitzgerald at Belfast’s Odyssey Arena on February 9.

The art of boxing is a study of a lifetime, one which you can practise everyday but never fully master.

Lennox Lewis has spoken of his devastation at the death of long-time trainer Emanuel Steward.

Bill Clinton took centre stage at the Democratic National Convention as President Barack Obama’s nomination is placed before a party hoping that the last president to preside over sustained growth can help propel him to re-election in a sputtering economy.

The White House abruptly announced that it had scuttled plans to hold the coming G8 economic summit in Chicago and would instead host world leaders at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland's mountains north of Washington.

US First lady Michelle Obama is challenging claims she has forcefully imposed her will on White House aides and says people have wrongly tried to portray her as “some kind of angry black woman”.

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel launched an ardent defence of President Barack Obama in Iowa, saying that to create middle-class security “we just can’t cut our way to prosperity”.

Kate Middleton was wearing a tiara today loaned to her by Prince William’s grandmother the Queen.

US President Barack Obama’s ex-enforcer Rahm Emanuel has been crowned mayor of Chicago, picking up the mantle from retiring mayor Richard Daley, who has governed the city for 22 years.

FORMER White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel hoped to win more than half the vote yesterday in the Chicago mayoral race to avoid a run-off election.

Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was waging a desperate bid to keep his campaign to be mayor of Chicago alive after a state appeals court kicked him off the ballot for not meeting a residency requirement.

US President Barack Obama today announced the resignation of his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who is to run for mayor of Chicago.

Embattled BP chief executive Tony Hayward is at the centre of a new controversy today after he went sailing in the UK despite mounting criticism that he is not doing enough to control the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

President Barack Obama’s chief of staff said today BP chief executive Tony Hayward had committed yet another in a “long line of PR gaffes” by attending a yacht race while the Gulf oil spill disaster continued.

MIGUEL COTTO claimed he had answered his critics after stopping Yuri Foreman in the ninth round of their fight at Yankee Stadium to claim the WBA light-middleweight title.

German club Hannover today announced they have signed Middlesbrough defender Emanuel Pogatetz on a three-year deal.

ANDY LEE will fight for the European middleweight title in Limerick later this year, according to promoter Brian Peters.

ANDY LEE’S opponent for Saturday’s Yanjing Fight Night at the UL Sports Arena in Limerick failed to show for yesterday’s head to head at the Crescent Shopping Centre in Dooradoyle.

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney accused the White House of dithering over the strategy for the war in Afghanistan and urged President Barack Obama to "do what it takes to win".

Barack Obama and his aides did not try to make any deals with Illinois’ embattled governor who is accused of trying to sell the president-elect’s vacant Senate seat for cash or a lucrative job, an internal review said.

ILLINOIS Governor Rod Blagojevich met with a renowned Chicago criminal lawyer over the weekend as he weighed his legal options on how to fight a scandal that has left his career in tatters and disrupted president-elect Barack Obama’s White House transition.

President-elect Barack Obama has named llinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel to serve him as chief of staff.

US president-elect Barack Obama went straight to work today appointing his new government and studying some of the problems he will inherit when he takes office in 10 weeks.

Barack Obama “will move as quickly as he can” to set up the team who will help him rule America as its first black president, his chief strategist said today.

Andy Lee admitted he had nobody but himself to blame after he lost for the first time in 16 professional fights, going down to Brian Vera at the Mohegan Sun Arena in the early hours of this morning.

ANDY LEE is determined to ignore talk of a major promotional deal with Top Rank and concentrate on making an impression in the ring as he makes his US national television debut tonight.

Birmingham manager Alex McLeish is refusing to press the panic button despite his side slipping into the bottom three of the Barclays Premier League for the first time this season.

Under-pressure Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez named a strong side for the FA Cup replay against Luton at Anfield.

HIS career has been sensational — his return to Ireland dramatic — and now Andy Lee has promised his Limerick homecoming on February 2, when he headlines the city’s first professional boxing show at UL Arena, will be spectacular.

ANDY LEE is the best middleweight boxer in the world and he is just a few bouts away from a world title fight according to the Limerick man’s legendary trainer, Emanuel Steward, who was speaking ahead of tonight’s battle for the vacant Irish super middleweight title with Jason McKay at the National Stadium.

Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is forced to sleep chained by her neck as punishment for having tried to escape from her rebel captors five times, an escaped hostage told family members today.

STEFAN BAILEY was sent off in shame and Zesh Rehman scored a calamitous own goal as QPR gifted Luton a lucrative televised FA Cup fourth-round clash with Blackburn.