Tottenham have denied they are in discussions regarding a reported £1bn takeover, but it remains unclear where the club will call home for the 2017/18 season.

Poor Clodagh broke her leg while being born in June.

One person has died, two others suffered burns and more than 4,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes today as a wildfire fanned by strong winds devoured hillsides around the luxurious southern Mediterranean resort city of Marbella.

Lady Rothschild will let John Gosden decide whether her star colt Nathaniel will lock horns with Frankel in the Juddmonte International at York.

IT took over two months, but Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) yesterday identified the Sia Group as the consultancy that will undertake a review of Ireland’s poor performance at the European Show Jumping Championships in Madrid.

FROM the country that gave the world Brigitte Bardot and topless sunbathing comes a fresh exposé of the human anatomy: man’s enduring fascination with bottoms.

THREE world records were set yesterday when a Faberge egg sold at auction for almost £9 million (€12.5m).

Wolves have rejected a takeover bid from the consortium headed by Graeme Souness.

The battle to take control of Aston Villa is expected to intensify in the next few days despite the club showing a £8.2m (€12.2m) pre-tax loss for the year ending May 31, 2006.

THE consortium fronted by life-long Aston Villa fan Michael Neville have submitted their bid — believed to be worth around £64 million — to buy the midlands club.

The consortium fronted by lifelong Aston Villa fan Michael Neville have submitted their bid – believed to be worth around £64m (€93.63m) – to buy the midlands club.

THE consortium hoping to take control of Aston Villa remain “very optimistic” they can take charge of the midlands club sooner rather than later.

A US school district went to court today to defend its policy of telling students that a higher power may have created life – an alternative to the evolution theory they are already learning.

Merchant bank Rothschild's has decided to withdraw from London's gold market, as part of a wider strategy to distract itself from all commodities trading out of the capital.

David de Rothschild, who runs the Rothschild banking business in France, is to take over the running of the family-held banking empire from his cousin this month as the firm unites its French and British arms in a single entity.

A British rabbi needed hospital treatment after he was attacked by anti-semitic youths in Berlin.