Italy coach Marcello Lippi insists he will not rush chief playmaker Andrea Pirlo back from injury at the World Cup.

ITALY coach Marcello Lippi has dropped the strongest hint yet that his country’s best goalscorer will not start tonight’s World Cup Group F opener with Paraguay.

Miguel Syjuco

THE owners of a nursing home were charged with homicide because they did not evacuate 34 elderly patients who died after Hurricane Katrina struck, the first major criminal case related to the storm’s still rising death toll.

BOHERDUFF LIGHT ended his racing career on the best possible note when winning the Langtons House Derby for the second successive year at Kilkenny on Friday night.

OWEN MC KENNA, the son of a greyhound racing living legend, proved himself a chip off the old block by sending out Boherduff Light to win the Cashmans Bookmakers Irish Laurels in front of a record crowd of just under 3,000 at Curraheen Park on Saturday night.

COMPAY SEGUNDO, the veteran Cuban singer and guitarist who shot from oblivion to international fame at the sunset of his life with the Grammy-winning record Buena Vista Social Club, has died at the age of 95.