Former WBC super welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya dominated Steve Forbes, winning a unanimous decision in a 12-round bout at the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles.

RICKY HATTON craves a rematch with Floyd Mayweather — and efforts to lure the American to Wembley next spring have already begun.

Private conversations with George W. Bush secretly taped by an old friend before he was elected president show some of his political strategies and appear to reveal that he acknowledged using marijuana, The New York Times reported yesterday.

The American editor of Forbes Magazine’s Russian edition and author of a book about tycoon Boris Berezovsky has been shot dead, the magazine said.

Charlton have been warned they will be the first Premiership club knocked out of the FA Cup by a non-League side unless they improve markedly in tonight's third round replay at Dagenham and Redbridge.