SOME people hate their jobs; they’d prefer to be film stars, great artists or captains of industry.

Prosecutors have asked Italy’s highest criminal court to reinstate the murder convictions of Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Raffaele Sollecito, the former boyfriend of Amanda Knox, has been invited by her father to visit them in the United States.

Lawyers for American student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend, who were found guilty of killing her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy, are demanding that US television channel Lifetime scraps a planned film about the trial.

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An American student slit the throat of her British housemate in a Satanic rite, prosecutors have told an Italian court.

An American student slit the throat of her British house mate in a Satanic rite, prosecutors told an Italian court today.

LESS than two months ago Michael Campbell stood 417th in the world and it looked as if we might be witnessing the decline and fall of a once great player.

THEY COME from a land of the long white cloud, but they’ve gone native. Rua Tipoki, Dougie Howlett, Lifeimi Mafi, three names you wouldn’t normally associate with Munster; after Saturday’s heroics at the Millennium Stadium, now and forever, are names that will resonate forever.

A French court has ruled that a Maori head that New Zealand wants back must remain in France.

Ireland A coach Michael Bradley has warned England A they must be ruthless if they are to have any hope of toppling the New Zealand Maori in Saturday’s Churchill Cup final.

IRELAND A’S hopes of making the Churchill Cup final were left in tatters as the New Zealand Maori ran in seven tries in a one-sided contest at Sandy Park.

Paul Casey is one decent round away from completing his comeback from a slump so bad that it had people concerned for his future.

IT has been suggested that the All Blacks should be the subject of derision from the Lansdowne Road terraces next Saturday in response to the Brian O’Driscoll affair.

Matt Dawson tonight admitted the Lions have “a very difficult week” ahead of them as they prepare to complete their miserable tour with an Eden Park double-header.

Piri Weepu has accused the Lions of underhand tactics during the New Zealand Maori’s famous 19-13 win in Hamilton on Saturday.

WELLINGTON scrum half Piri Weepu will face the British and Irish Lions for the second time in five days believing the Maori’s victory can help his provincial side.

AS the man who assembled the largest rugby touring party in history, Clive Woodward knows a lot about delegation.

International opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa shocked staff at a city centre hotel when she asked where she could store her guns, it emerged tonight.