Cheltenham boss Mark Yates believes Torquay counterpart Martin Ling is engaging in a spot of mind games ahead of their npower League Two play-off semi-final second leg at Plainmoor tomorrow.

A MILLIONAIRE financier being sued by a former employee for discrimination yesterday told a tribunal he never used prostitutes.

TWO American journalists freed by North Korea returned home to the United States yesterday for a jubilant, emotional reunion with family members and friends they hadn’t seen in nearly five months.

The White House said it was “enormously pleased” with the release today of two US journalists held by North Korea.

The US government said today that former vice president Al Gore and the families of two reporters imprisoned in North Korea had asked ex-president Bill Clinton to go to Pyongyang to seek their release.

Two American journalists freed from a North Korean labour camp were heading home today with their families “counting the seconds” until they met.

NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Il has issued a “special pardon” for two American journalists and ordered their release at former US president Bill Clinton’s request, North Korean state media reported yesterday.

Former US president Bill Clinton made a surprise trip to North Korea today amid an international stand-off over the country’s nuclear programme and concerns about two imprisoned American reporters.

Senior US politicians were discussing a bid to negotiate the release of two American journalists sentenced to 12 years’ hard labour in North Korea as the women’s families made an emotional appeal today.

A horse has to be pretty special for John Oxx to run him in the Derby, and Sea The Stars certainly passes the test, judging by the public thoughts of the master.

US JOURNALIST Laura Ling, jailed for three months in one of the world’s most isolated nations, wrote to her family that she “cried so much” her first few days after being arrested by North Korean border guards.

Two Americans have been detained by North Korea for illegally crossing its border and are under investigation, the country’s official news agency said today.

A Co Wicklow cocaine addict who drank tea with a Chinese woman after terrorising her at knifepoint in her apartment has been jailed for six years by Judge Tony Hunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

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INSTEAD of lobbying the US government for an amnesty for possibly more than 12 million illegal immigrants here, why don’t lobbyists put pressure on countries of mass emigration to improve life for their own citizens?

Irish crew, Austin MacHale/Brian Murphy (Ford Focus WRC) finished second in the Scottish Rally, some, two minutes and 10.6 seconds behind the Ford Focus of Mark Higgins/Bryan Thomas.

WITH three different leaders after each of the opening three rounds, the Dunlop National Rally Championship is shaping up to be an intriguing contest.

Martin Ling has been given the Leyton Orient manager’s job until the end of next season.

THE support of the Irish community in Hong Kong was a huge encouragement to their Special Olympics officials to fight the Sars ban which threatened their involvement in the World Games in the opinion of the senior officers of their delegation.