Sheffield Wednesday 3 Arsenal 0: Arsenal were unceremoniously dumped out of the Capital One Cup on a damaging night as Sheffield Wednesday blew them away with a stunning 3-0 victory at Hillsborough.

Gardaí are continuing a major investigation into a bizarre attempted child snatch in Co Limerick.

Manchester City 7 Sheffield Wednesday 0

Team news for the Second Round of the Capital One Cup.

Ulster 21 Exeter Chiefs 22

Man City 4 Leeds 0

Leeds United 2 Tottenham Hotspur 1

Birmingham 1 Leeds 2

Leeds United 1 Chelsea 5

Leeds manager Neil Warnock faces a selection dilemma ahead of the Capital One Cup quarter-final with Chelsea.

Nigel Clough’s Derby halted Leeds’ revival and stretched their unbeaten home run in the npower Championship to seven matches thanks to second-half goals from Jake Buxton and Ben Davies, with Irishman Conor Sammon scoring their opener. Paul Green responded for Leeds.

Leeds 1 Leicester 0

Tottenham and Leeds are awaiting formal notification that their players Steven Caulker and Tom Lees are the subject of charges from Serbian police.

Leeds 3 Southampton 0

Blackpool 2 Leeds 1

A toddler had “a miraculous escape” from a crash which claimed the life of her grandmother on a notoriously dangerous section of road in North Cork.

Arsenal’s record goalscorer Thierry Henry has been named on the bench for tonight’s FA Cup third-round clash with Leeds at the Emirates Stadium.

ALEX FERGUSON last night paid tribute to Michael Owen after the striker’s double helped Manchester United to an easy 3-0 Carling Cup win over Leeds.

FT Leeds 0 Man Utd 3

Dimitar Berbatov and Michael Owen were handed their first starts of the season by Alex Ferguson as Manchester United faced a volatile atmosphere against Leeds at Elland Road.

THERE IS a growing public perception that this season’s AIB Munster Club Football Championship is destined to climax in a Crokes v Nemo Rangers face-off, but both clubs still have some work to do before that glamour pairing becomes a reality.

WHO said romance was dead?

A SECOND World War veteran whose heroism was immortalised in the classic film The Great Escape has died, aged 97.

An ageing camper van that provided key evidence in the trial of the man convicted of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio is to be released by Australian police after seven years.

IN 1933, a rare Tasmanian tiger was snared by a trapper. In those days, exotic creatures were sold to fairground operators who put them on display for money. This particular animal, however, ended up in Hobart Zoo where it was christened Benjamin by a journalist, even though its sex was never reliably determined.

A man convicted of killing a British backpacker and trying to kidnap his girlfriend lost his final bid to overturn his life sentence today when Australia’s highest court refused to hear his case.

The drug smuggler convicted of killing British backpacker Peter Falconio and attempting to kidnap his girlfriend on a remote Outback highway six years ago will launch a bid for an appeal in Australia’s highest court later this week, prosecutors said today.

The first image from a film depicting the ordeal of the girlfriend of a British backpacker murdered in the Australian Outback more than five years ago was released today.

British backpacker Joanne Lees, who survived an Outback attack that resulted in the murder of her boyfriend Peter Falconio, today said she had signed a deal to write a tell-all book about the ordeal.

The drug-runner who murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio will serve at least 28 years in prison before being considered for parole, a court heard today.

THE girlfriend of Peter Falconio yesterday urged his killer to reveal what he has done with the British backpacker’s body.

Joanne Lees today urged her boyfriend’s killer to tell her and the Falconio family “what he has done with Pete”.

Drug-runner Bradley Murdoch was today found guilty of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio on a remote stretch of desert highway in the Australian Outback more than four years ago.

A police detective denied in court today a defence lawyer’s suggestion that he had planted evidence to incriminate a man charged with murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio in the Outback.

The man accused of killing British backpacker Peter Falconio on an Outback highway took amphetamines for days to stay awake and carried a gun as he ran marijuana across Australia, a court was told today.

THE man accused of killing British backpacker Peter Falconio laughed in the dock as a detective denied contaminating evidence.

The handcuffs allegedly used to tie up the girlfriend of a British backpacker during an attack in the Australian Outback were put in the same room as property belonging to the accused, a court heard today.

AN Aboriginal woman yesterday said she saw a “big white vehicle” pull on to a remote desert highway on the night a British backpacker disappeared more than four years ago.

THE girlfriend of a British backpacker murdered on a desert road more than four years ago told a court yesterday she was “very positive” she had identified his killer.

The girlfriend of a British backpacker killed in the Australian outback more than four years ago identified her attacker to police in the year after her attack, a court heard today.

JOANNE Lees admitted yesterday she may have been wrong about exactly what happened to her when she and her boyfriend were allegedly attacked in the outback by Bradley Murdoch.

The Australian trial of a mechanic charged with murdering a British backpacker on an outback highway in 2001 was postponed today, less than two weeks before it was due to start – to allow further investigations in the case, a judge said.