England manager Roy Hodgson has named Dr Steven Peters as the psychologist he has entrusted to work with his squad — as captain Steven Gerrard praised him as the man he feels has allowed him to play his best football.

A judge at the centre of a storm in the UK over inappropriate comments made about a teenage sex attack victim is to face the abuser again in court.

An Australian teenager who spent 10 hours with a fake bomb chained to her neck said today that she is relieved the FBI has arrested a man accused of breaking into her home and tethering the device to her as part of an elaborate extortion plot.

A man is due in court in the US to face extradition proceedings in connection with a fake bomb alert.

AN Australian doctor was charged with endangering his patients’ lives after police said he infected nearly 50 women with hepatitis C at an abortion clinic.

An Australian doctor was charged today with endangering his patients’ lives after police said he infected nearly 50 women with hepatitis C at an abortion clinic.

LUKE THOMAS benefited from training alongside the three Cork-based Cuban professionals when he won his third successive national juvenile boxing title at the National Stadium last week.

NORTHAMPTON captain Dylan Hartley is looking forward to this evening, when he and his teammates will pack down against Munster in their Heineken Cup opener. You’d expect him to talk up his opponents, and he doesn’t disappoint.

BRIAN PETERS brought off what can only be regarded as an astonishing coup by getting Ricardo Cordoba’s management to sign a voluntary defence contract without a re-match clause.

FRANK MALONEY is ready to sit down with Brian Peters to discuss the possibility of a title fight between European super-bantamweight champion Rendall Munroe and former champion Bernard Dunne.

An Australian coroner investigating the killing of a British journalist during Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of East Timor invited a former military commander to testify about the circumstances of his death.

Actor Brock Peters, best known for his heartbreaking performance as the black man falsely accused of rape in the American movie To Kill A Mockingbird, has died at his home after battling pancreatic cancer.

New Zealand’s government said today it will clamp down on undesirable immigrants after admitting that a former senior diplomat in Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime had entered the country and applied for residency.