Sheikh Mohammed is facing fresh embarrassment following the seizure of 124 medical products, none of which have been approved for use on horses in Britain, at part of his Dalham Hall Stud operation in Newmarket.

A British stuntman who parachuted into the Olympic Stadium dressed as James Bond during the opening ceremony of London 2012 has been killed in a wingsuit accident.

Two Italian climbers have died in an avalanche on Mont Blanc du Tacul in the French Alps.

Jockey Joseph O’Brien is praying the rain stays away from Ascot to allow St Nicholas Abbey show his true brilliance in Saturday’s King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Start Me Up gets the nap to land the Guinness Kerry National for Charlie Swan and Davy Russell at Listowel this afternoon.

Joseph O’Brien emerged from rain-lashed Ballybrit last night with a 55/1 treble, achieved on Eye Of The Storm, Cairdiuil and Chamonix, and a two-day careless riding ban handed down after a manoeuvre on Chamonix before the halfway point of the featured Ardilaun Hotel Oyster Stakes.

Aidan O’Brien admitted nerves were jangling throughout the vast Ballydoyle operation as he prepares Camelot for his date with destiny in Saturday’s Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster.

BEACH Of Falesa has to be the fancy to complete a hat-trick in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Handicap at Killarney tonight.

A memorial service is taking place today in the French resort of Chamonix for the climbers killed in an avalanche in the French Alps.

Two more Britons killed in a major avalanche in the French Alps were named by the Foreign Office today.

The mountaineering world has led tributes to one of the UK’s most respected climbers after he was killed alongside two other Britons in a devastating avalanche.

A climber trying to scale Mont Blanc may have accidentally caused a slab of ice to snap off high in the French Alps, sparking an avalanche which swept nine European climbers to their deaths, authorities said.

Police have confirmed that four climbers missing after an avalanche in the French Alps are alive.

A climber trying to scale Mont Blanc accidentally caused a slab of ice to snap off, sparking an avalanche high in the French Alps which swept nine European climbers to their deaths, authorities said.

Nine climbers have been killed in an avalanche in the French Alps, according to French authorities.

An avalanche in the French Alps has killed six climbers and injured six others, authorities said today.

IT WAS hailed as an engineering marvel when it opened to traffic in June 1999.

Two British climbers have died in the French Alps after falling more than 1,000ft off a mountain.

TWO Cork travel companies have received recognition at the Irish Travel Trade Awards for 2009.

Kylie Minogue has confessed she is occasionally attracted to women.

ON behalf of the taxpayer I would like to congratulate Colm McCarthy on completing such a comprehensive report on what we need to do with the public sector.

Four Italian climbers fell 3,280 feet to their deaths while climbing the Aiguille du Midi, one of the highest peaks on Mont-Blanc range of the French Alps.

Snow Patrol drummer Jonny Quinn will rejoin the Chasing Cars band for their Australian tour next month.

WALES head coach Gareth Jenkins insists that Gavin Henson can dance the night away as often as he likes — providing his rugby does not suffer.

FRANCE’S Antoine Deneriaz caused a sensation yesterday by storming to the Olympic Games men’s downhill gold medal ahead of the Austrian and American favourites in alpine skiing’s blue-riband event.

Antoine Deneriaz claimed he never lost the belief that he would be crowned Olympic champion after recovering from a torn knee ligament to blaze to men’s downhill glory in Sestriere.

Two extreme sportsmen plunged 3,700ft to their deaths after a daredevil stunt in the French Alps went horribly wrong, rescuers said today.

Thousands of environmental protesters opposed to the reopening of the Mont Blanc tunnel to heavy trucks today blocked all traffic on the French side of the Alpine passage.

Four skiers are missing after an avalanche in the French Alps.