Ahead of his new column in Weekend, Mark Hayes, the Corkman-turned-LA- local who hangs out with Robbie Williams, puts together a handy how-to guide on what to do when you meet a celebrity.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment’s head of global equities forecast that at least one of the eurozone’s 17 members will have to renegotiate its debt at a loss to bondholders as the eurozone’s debt crisis rumbles on.

France’s Michael Llodra today became the latest player to pull out of Wimbledon due to injury.

A gunman who killed four people in Santa Monica, California, before police shot him dead, acted alone, authorities said today.

Jennifer Lawrence helped a woman who had collapsed outside her home in Santa Monica.

Lindsay Lohan emerged from her crumpled sports car unhurt after a collision with a tipper lorry on a coast road near Los Angeles.

Munster’s iconic Thomond Park will host Ireland’s plum tie of the 2013 Rugby League World Cup against Australia.

Actress Reese Witherspoon was struck by a car while jogging near Los Angeles and suffered minor injuries.

Actor Ryan O’Neal’s son Redmond was sent to jail in Southern California following a drugs arrest and hours later his brother was taken to hospital after a car crash.

FABIO CAPELLO looks set to survive as England coach despite the team’s World Cup failure with FA chiefs instead being urged to invest in a long-term plan for success.

The 2013 Rugby League World Cup will be held in the United Kingdom, the Rugby League International Federation have confirmed.

ONE of the main backers of high-profile fashion designer Deborah Veale has gone into liquidation, with the firm believed to owe creditors up to €1 million.

France remain on course to join the Tri-Nations Series in 2009 despite their World Cup flop, according to Rugby Football League executive chairman Richard Lewis.

SKIRT lengths are coming down next year — a fashion trend that has always indicated tougher times ahead.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating the theft of a large quantity of designer clothing in the south of the city earlier this week.

The 2008 World Cup in Australia will cost an estimated £9.7m but is set to become the most successful, it was claimed today.

The chairman of Ipswich Town today said he expected the minute’s silence prior to the club’s home game with Leeds United to be “special”.

New Zealand Rugby League have apologised for fielding an ineligible player and confirmed they will not appeal the two-point Tri-Nations penalty imposed yesterday.

Former leading Rugby Football League official Greg McCallum is back in the game after being appointed to a new-look judiciary in Australia.

Plans were today unveiled for a rugby league World Cup to be held in Australia in the autumn of 2008, as part of the celebrations to mark the centenary of the game in the southern hemisphere.

A UK clergyman who died in a car fire in an apparent suicide was remembered with warmth and humour at his funeral today.

A second body has been found by rescue crews at the Corus steelworks in South Wales.