South Africa produced late drama to hold New Zealand to a 16-16 draw in their Rugby Championship clash at Wellington.

Despite the many issues in the housing market, the number of mortgages being approved is rising, with first-time buyers making up the bulk

Philip Reynolds spent the first half of his life as Albert Reynolds' young fella and thinks he might just spend the second as Presenting Percy's owner.

They led 24-3 early on in a thrilling Test.

Latest: A senior member of Britain's Jewish community has offered an apology to Jeremy Corbyn amid controversy over the Labour leader's message for Holocaust Memorial Day.

A group of sheds that have been transformed into the new O’Donoghue Centre for Theatre, Drama and Performance at NUI Galway has been selected for a top architecture award.

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Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea (12A), which is adapted from Nathan Philbrick’s award-winning book of the same name, opens in Nantucket in 1850, with the young novelist Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) interviewing retired sailor Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson) about the dramatic events that befell the whale ship Essex some three decades previously.

South Africa 64 USA 0: Heyneke Meyer paid tribute to Bryan Habana after the wing equalled the Rugby World Cup try-scoring record as his South Africa side confirmed their quarter-final spot with a comprehensive 10-try victory over USA.

If the London Olympics of four years ago is the yardstick by which the Rugby World Cup is to be judged then the tournament organisers have set themselves an incredibly high standard.

Steve Neville looks at five backs who could have a breakthrough tournament in England at the World Cup.

Rhys Ruddock and Tommy Bowe plundered tries to guide stubborn Ireland to their first victory over South Africa in five years at the Aviva Stadium.

The visitors hold all the aces in terms of recent form, preparation, settled combinations and the confidence that stems from beating New Zealand last time out.

Still only 21, Serfontein has already established a reputation as something of a dump truck.

Rob Kearney says fly-half Handré Pollard is the driving force behind South Africa’s recent successes.

A genuine treat awaits. Notwithstanding the fact New Zealand will be giving Dublin a skip this month, some of rugby’s standout performers are coming to town in November, writes Donal Lenihan.

Defence coach Les Kiss has insisted his four-month Ulster sabbatical will have no impact on his preparations for Ireland’s autumn Test series.

Temperatures in Johannesburg are expected to reach 26 degrees this week.

Patrick Lambie’s late long-range penalty consigned New Zealand to just their second defeat in 38 Test matches as South Africa edged to a 27-25 Rugby Championship victory at Ellis Park.

New Zealand 14 South Africa 10

South Africa got their Rugby Championship campaign up and running with victory over Argentina, although it was far from easy for the Springboks in testing conditions at a rain-drenched Loftus Versfeld.

South Africa have beaten Scotland 55-6 in their Test in Port Elizabeth.

A top international coach has endorsed the nomination of Ireland’s Garry Ringrose for player of the tournament in the IRB Junior World Cup.

A surrogate mother who claimed she miscarried the grandchild of Osama bin Laden has been jailed for three years and four months after faking pregnancies to rake in £15,000 (€18,750) from desperate couples.

If you simply want more sex, you are unlikely to achieve that goal by making yourself single.

A high school teacher from Alabama is accused of kidnapping a six-year-old girl from school in Mississippi, sending a frightening text message to the child’s mother and paying to keep her overnight in a hotel.

Top BBC executives denied ever having heard about Jimmy Savile’s sex crimes despite Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman’s claim they were “common gossip”.

Detailed accusations about Jimmy Savile’s sex crimes were censored after viewers tried to post them on a BBC tribute web page after his death.

Thousands of pages of evidence gathered during an inquiry into Newsnight’s decision to drop its Jimmy Savile investigation are set to published today, the BBC has reported.

A review has absolved senior BBC executives of trying to bury an explosive story about one of its best-known children’s television stars, saying management errors were to blame for the fact that a planned exposé on paedophilia claims against the late Jimmy Savile was cancelled.

One of the BBC's top news executives resigned today in the wake of a damning report into the BBC's decision to drop a Newsnight investigation into Jimmy Savile's sex abuse.

People with disabilities are being ignored and isolated, and bear an unfair brunt of economic cutbacks, campaigners claimed today.

Jimmy Savile’s former personal assistant has said the disgraced TV star “thought he was untouchable”.

Former High Court judge Dame Janet Smith and ex-Sky News executive Nick Pollard are to lead the BBC’s independent reviews stemming from the Jimmy Savile sex abuse allegations.

Devon Smith’s patient century and Kieron Pollard’s quickfire 94 guided the West Indies to a 44-run victory in their World Cup Group B match against Ireland in Mohali today.

IRISH cricket star Eoin Morgan has been catapulted into the sport’s megastar bracket with a €150,000 deal to join the 2010 Indian Premier League.

A couple in Britain are to divorce after one of them had a virtual reality “affair”, it was reported today.

A HUGE breakthrough has been made in the search for a vaccine against meningitis B, the most common form of the illness in Ireland.

Kate and Gerry McCann have hired a private security firm to investigate the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine, it was reported today.

Hollywood funnyman Will Ferrell is auctioning a cameo spot in his new film to raise money for his college friend's cancer charity.