24's Jack Bauer has been named as the hottest TV crime fighter ever.

Back-from-the-dead British canoeist John Darwin was tonight facing a lengthy prison sentence after admitting a string of fraud charges totalling nearly £250,000 (€326,000).

A senior British diplomat and BBC officials met Palestinian PM Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and moderate President Mahmoud Abbas today to push for the release of a BBC journalist kidnapped three weeks ago.

KEVIN SHEEDY has vowed that there will be no let up in the intensity that helped Australia to a 36-point belting of Ireland in the first international rules test last Friday night.