A top US military commander has ordered a new investigation into a firefight in Afghanistan that claimed the lives of nine American soldiers and led to claims of negligence by their senior commanders.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey likes a good argument when he hears it and he gives prizes away for the best of them.

ASTON VILLA striker John Carew has set his sights on making the same impact on the Premiership as fellow Norwegian Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Howard Keel, the broad-shouldered baritone who romanced his way through a series of glittering MGM musicals such as Showboat, Kiss Me Kate and Annie Get Your Gun and later revived his career on TV soap Dallas, has died of colon cancer.

Mike Tyson has no intention of eventually going out of boxing ‘‘old too soon, smart too late’’.