Ken Egan will contest the light heavyweight final in the Irish Amateur Boxing Championships tonight.

Ken Egan begins his quest for an eighth consecutive Irish senior title at the National Stadium tonight.

Taliban militants have seized control of a district in Afghanistan’s volatile south after an hours-long clash that killed five people, including the local police chief and the political leader.

A woman kept about 200 creatures – including alligators, scorpions and beetles - in an apartment in Milwaukee.