Katie Taylor is a two-weight world champion after claiming a unanimous-decision win over Christina Linardatou in Manchester on Saturday.

Katie Taylor is far from done making history.

Not lost in the folly of the Shane Ross airport pageantry was that Katie Taylor’s lust for the limelight could scarcely compare less.

Katie Taylor and her team say a rematch with Delfine Persoon is very much in their plans, though a deal is preliminarily in place for a fight with Amanda Serrano later this year.

Katie Taylor is never one to overlook an opponent but she knows an emphatic victory in Boston tonight will make a particularly big impact on one ringside observer.

Although tomorrow night’s world title defence against Cindy Serrano, the toughest fight of her career to date, might seem like an away fixture for Bray’s Katie Taylor, she is very much the home fighter.

One of the shot officers only recently returned from maternity leave. She was the mother of a four-month-old daughter.

A French court has ordered a private clinic in Cannes to pay out €400,000 each to two now-20-year-old women who were accidentally switched at birth and given to the wrong parents.

Three journalists covering the World Cup were robbed in their South African hotel today.

Elvis Presley's ex-wife Priscilla is reportedly undergoing corrective surgery for a botched cosmetic procedure she had done in 2003.

A 22-year-old man stabbed his roommate to death after being accused of having smelly feet.

SPANIARD Marcos Serrano claimed victory on the 189km 18th stage of the Tour de France between Albi and Mende yesterday after holding off a strong challenge from Cedric Vasseur and Axel Merckx.

Spaniard Marcos Serrano claimed victory on the 189km 18th stage of the Tour de France between Albi and Mende after holding off a strong challenge from Cedric Vasseur and Axel Merckx on Thursday.

Gathering beneath a brilliant sky, thousands of pilgrims converged on St Peter’s Square today as cardinals held a Mass before shutting themselves inside the Sistine Chapel to begin their election of a new Pope.

Lionel Richie's ex-wife has been named in a new lawsuit - for allegedly administering an illegal anti-wrinkle substance to her surgeon boyfriend's clients.