IT’S often I look in bewilderment at an article in the sports pages with an expression similar to those which Usain Bolt’s competitors convey as the Jamaican sprinter glides past like he’s on rails.

IRISH middleweight Andy Lee has been assured his promotional deal with the Top Rank organisation remains intact following the first defeat of his professional career.

A WAR of words erupted last night over claims that millions of people have been kissing the wrong Blarney Stone.

Police have arrested a man wanted in connection with the murders of a young pop hopeful, her mother and young brother, whose bodies were found in their family home.

A budding young pop star has been found murdered with her mother and younger brother at their home in Manchester.

A GROUP of pensioners with a 90-year-old lead singer has begun its bid to storm the charts.

A group of pensioners with a 90-year-old lead singer begin their bid to storm the charts today.

New Zealand outplayed West Indies to coast to a seven-wicket victory and leave the hosts needing to make up significant ground if they are to reach the World Cup semi-finals.

SHIV CHANDERPAUL hit a superb century as West Indies sealed an eight-wicket win over Ireland in a rain-hit Group D decider in Kingston, Jamaica.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul smashed his sixth one-day international century as the West Indies marched to an eight-wicket victory over Ireland in Jamaica.

A memorial service is to be held in Vienna, Austria, today for holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Wiesenthal who died yesterday aged 96.

TV detective Robert Blake murdered his wife after two stuntmen he solicited refused to commit the crime, a California court was told.

Actor Robert Blake murdered his wife after two stuntmen he solicited refused to commit the crime, a court heard today.

Karsten Janker has come on for Samuels for Bayern Munich at the start of the second half.