Celtic’s Europa League were ended for the season as Ajax substitute Vaclav Cerny scored a late winner for the visitors at Parkhead.

Hollywood director Ron Howard has led tributes to Oscar-winning Titanic composer James Horner, who has died at the age of 61.

The European Central Bank will judge early next year whether it needs to take more action to revive the eurozone economy, president Mario Draghi said yesterday.

Luis Suarez will have to decide whether to risk asking the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to put his four-month biting ban on hold until the outcome of an appeal.

Luis Suarez is facing a dilemma over an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against his four-month biting ban as to whether he should ask his sanction to be put on hold until the outcome of the case.

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From Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor, to the cult of the Italian designer in the 1980s, London’s V&A is paying tribute to the glamour of Italian fashion in a new exhibition.

A former Ryanair pilot, who once wrote a letter to the Financial Times claiming the airline’s chief executive, Michael O’Leary, should be replaced by a junior to reduce costs, claims he would still be working for the company if it had not been “completely unreasonable”.

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Walter Bortz and Aubrey de Grey are both sights to behold.

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China made badminton headlines for the right reasons as Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei produced a world-class performance to claim Olympic gold at Wembley Arena.

Ireland’s U-19 women crashed out of the European Championships qualification hunt yesterday in Serbia following their second defeat in three days.

LAWYERS representing convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan argue in newly filed court documents that a bullet was switched in evidence at his trial and new forensic details show he is innocent of the 1968 killing of US senator Robert F Kennedy.

THE darkest and most adult of the Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II (12A) brings to a close the epic saga of the teenage wizard’s battle against the forces of evil.

THE International Monetary Fund’s board has blocked Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer from the race for the top IMF job, further boosting the chances of French finance minister Christine Lagarde.

France’s Christine Lagarde and Mexico’s Agustin Carstens are the two remaining candidates to be the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

Israel’s central bank chief has applied to head the International Monetary Fund, the country’s finance minister said today.

The Brothers Farrelly try here to move away from their usual gross-out films – a genre which has, of late, left them struggling to sustain their initial impact – but while there are moments, albeit brief, of wit and observation the whole is disappointing.

AN ICELANDIC court has ruled the widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer was his lawful wife and should inherit his £1.2 million (€1.4m) fortune.

An Icelandic court has ruled that the widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer was his lawful wife and should inherit his estimated £1.2m (€1.4m) fortune.

I’VE NEVER met Deborah Cavendish, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, yet she has long been a hero of mine. Debo, as she is known to her friends, now a feisty 90, was the youngest Mitford sister.

IT’S about the only thing cost-cutting Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary hasn’t taken an axe to — himself.

The body of US chess champion Bobby Fischer has been exhumed in Iceland for tests to see if he is the father of a nine-year-old girl from the Philippines.

THE remains of former chess champion Bobby Fischer, who died two years ago in Iceland, will be dug up to settle a paternity claim, Iceland’s Supreme Court has ruled.

Austria’s president easily secured a second term, deflecting a challenge by a far-right politician who criticised the country’s anti-Nazi law.

Any ideas of reopening the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty across Europe were condemned today as “absurd” and “surreal”.

THE Czech government is to ask its fellow EU member states to allow the country to opt out of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in an effort to persuade their president to sign the Lisbon Treaty.

The Lisbon Treaty is being “fast-tracked” through the Czech constitutional court to end the uncertainty over its future as soon as possible, the Czech prime minister said today.

New talks on how to bring the Lisbon treaty into force take place today – but the man with key to its future will not be there.

Czechs and Poles were mixed in their reaction to the US decision to cancel a missile defence shield based in their countries today.

The US today scrapped plans for a missile defence shield in eastern Europe that had raised new tensions with Russia.

EU leaders were today hoping to agree the terms of legally-binding guarantees to reassure Irish voters about the Lisbon Treaty – completing a triple deal at a summit in Brussels.

Closet chef Jake Gyllenhaal is developing a new organic restaurant venture with top cook Chris Fischer.

Reclusive chess genius Bobby Fischer was buried today in a private ceremony at a churchyard in southern Iceland, a television station reported.

IT would be hard to explain to anyone under, say, 40, the international excitement that surrounded America’s Bobby Fischer’s dethronement of Soviet Grandmaster and chess world champion Boris Spassky in 1972.

Controversial former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has died at the age of 64 in his adopted home of Iceland.

The discovery of a fifth planet circling a star beyond our solar system marks “an exciting next step in the search for worlds like our own”, astronomers said today.

FARMERS who use the internet should visit Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel’s new blog website, and leave a message for the woman who — probably more than anyone else — determines their livelihood.

Austria assumed the presidency of the European Union today with a pledge to make the 25-nation bloc “more tangible to our citizens”.

The German government “emphatically” welcomed today’s unanimous decision of the UN General Assembly to establish an annual day to commemorate the six million predominantly Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust, the foreign minister said.

The European Union overcame last-minute doubts and opened membership talks today with Turkey – a historic move to include a predominantly Muslim nation that both sides said would benefit all of Europe.

Austria’s president honoured famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal with one of the country’s highest prizes today, recognising his achievements over decades in tracking criminals from the Second World War.