The Spanish doctor at the heart of one of cycling’s biggest doping scandals has been found guilty of endangering public health and given a one-year suspended jail sentence in the Operation Puerto case.

As expected the last week brought startling revelations of performance enhancing drug use in Spanish football.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger would welcome blood tests in football and believes current doping controls are not strict enough to catch the drug cheats.

Spanish rider Luis Leon Sanchez has been suspended by his Blanco Pro Cycling team as the Dutch squad investigate his links to Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor at the centre of the Operacion Puerto trial in Madrid.

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UNDOCUMENTED Irish in the US are being forced out of their black market jobs by tough new measures to clamp down on illegal workers, according to the Immigration Rights Commission in San Francisco.

PANATHINAIKOS gave themselves an excellent chance of qualifying for the Champions League quarter-finals by scoring a vital away goal against Villarreal last night.

CELTIC manager Gordon Strachan claimed his side can come back stronger in Europe after they finished off their Champions League campaign with an encouraging 2-0 win over Villarreal at Parkhead last night.

Cristiano Ronaldo was named on the bench as Manchester United began the defence of their Champions League crown at home to Villarreal.

Real Madrid have begun legal action against French newspaper Le Monde following an article published last week alleging the club had links to Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.

Levees around the vulnerable city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, held against the swollen Susquehanna River today, ending an evacuation order for 200,000 people.

IRAQ'S new Governing Council was warned about the possibility of a terror attack in Baghdad just days before Tuesday's truck bombing ripped through the United Nations headquarters.

Michael Brodie has a showdown with Naseem Hamed in his sights after he retained his WBF featherweight title with a hard-fought points win over tough Luis Fuentes at the Altrincham Leisure Centre.

Gregorio Fuentes, who was boat captain to Ernest Hemingway when the late American writer lived in Cuba, has died aged 104, his family said. Fuentes had suffered from cancer.