Champion Joey Chestnut downed 69 frankfurters to devour his own record in New York’s annual hotdog-eating contest.

The average teenager costs €3,791 a year to feed.

James Bond star Daniel Craig declared last night’s red carpet launch of Skyfall his greatest 007 premiere yet as the series celebrated its 50th anniversary.

The Duchess of Cambridge confessed tonight that she had been “nervous” about giving her first speech on foreign soil.

MUSIC NEWS: While the London Olympics opening ceremony received a generally favourable response, there were a few grumbles about the musical component of the extravaganza.

THE FIRST thing you see when you walk into the James Bond exhibition Designing 007 — 50 Years of Bond Style, in London, is a dead body, a naked, gold, female dead body, face down on a bed.

James Bond is in London later at the biggest ever gathering of actors from the films.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON may have shot a blemishless three under-par round 68 in the first round of the BMW Championship, the third tournament of four in the US Tour’s FedEx Championship, in Chicago yesterday, but the Irishman is having to put up with some real ribbing from a friend as he goes about his business.

ROY SCHEIDER, a one-time boxer whose broken nose and pugnacious acting style made him a star in The French Connection and who later uttered one of cinematic history’s most memorable lines in Jaws, has died. He was 75.

Borat brought the glory of Kazakhstan to the West End tonight.

Defending champion Colin Lloyd tonight edged a tense tussle with local favourite Tom Kirby in the opening round of the Skybet World Grand Prix in Dublin.

to a badly-gashed leg.

MARLON BRANDO was a contender in the American Film Institute’s list of best quotes from US movies, but No 1 was Rhett Butler’s parting shot to Scarlett O’Hara: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

Cue the ominous bass line and close the beaches.

Former champion jockey Kieren Fallon has split with top agent Ron Anderson just three weeks after arriving to ride in Florida for the winter.

Former champion jockey Kieren Fallon has split with top agent Ron Anderson just three weeks after arriving in the United States to ride in Florida for the winter.

Top seed Colin Lloyd produced an astonishing fightback tonight to keep alive his hopes of winning the Ladbrokes.com World Championship at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet.

The uncle of a man shot in the back at a family funeral has denied suggestions that he was not at the cemetery when gun shots broke out.

Big-wave surfing means huge prize money and crazy risks as riders go in search of the 100-foot wave. Simon Lewis reports from California.

Wayne Mardle has never questioned his desire to win the ultimate prize in darts – but he never realised how much until after last night’s superb win over Colin Lloyd.

Jack Nicholson’s crazed cry of “Here’s Johnny” as he axes his way through a door in pursuit of his wife has been named the most terrifying screen moment of all time.

Richard Kiel, famous for his role as the James Bond baddie Jaws, revisited past glories today at an exhibition of memorabilia from the popular spy movies.

Colin Lloyd moved into the last sixteen of the PDC Stan James World Matchplay Open with a 10-7 comeback victory over Mick Manning.