Nicolas Anelka’s France career could be at an end after he was today hit with an 18-match suspension by the French Football Federation.

In 1910 Russia, Valentin Bulgakov (James McAvoy), the newly appointed private secretary to the great Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), arrives at the writer’s estate — the battleground for a very public war.

TWINS have been born two months apart to a Romanian woman with two wombs. Doctors say Romanian Maricia Tescu has made medical history by giving birth to the second twin this week, 59 days after delivering his brother Catalin on December 11.

Frankie Dettori launched one of the most memorable days of his career when Nightfall gave him a 2000th winner in Britain in the Crocker Bulteel Maiden Stakes at Ascot today.

Darryll Holland maintained his pursuit of Kieren Fallon in the jockeys’ championship by bagging a double at Ascot today.

The trial of a Ukrainian man accused of the murder of a Romanian national whose body was found in a suitcase in the Royal Canal in Dublin continued in the absence of the jury at the Central Criminal Court today.

A man whose bloodied body was found dumped in a suitcase in a Dublin canal was murdered in a contract "beating" that went too far, a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

Weapons collected by British troops in Kosovo were melted down today as the authorities warned citizens it was their ‘‘last chance’’ to hand over arms.

Romania's communists want the body of former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu exhumed so that he can be given a decent burial.