About 500 people have fled their homes in Cape Town as a wildfire defied rain and firefighters for a fourth day.

Metallica's Lars Ulrich loves touring because it gets him "out of the house".

Arnold Layne, a faller when the well-backed favourite for Warwick’s Classic Chase, is 6-1 market leader with the sponsors for the totesport Eider at Newcastle on Saturday.

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and his girlfriend, Gladiator star Connie Nielsen, are celebrating the birth of their first child together.