A surfer was seriously injured as he repeatedly punched a shark that mauled him off the Australian east coast, less than a week after a fatal attack.

Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor has made a string of accusations against his family, who he claims are using him for money. 

Ryanair hopes to be flying into 12 to 14 cities in the US in around five years, with its long-awaited transatlantic expansion only hinging on more long-haul aircraft becoming available for purchase.

East Cork’s Water Rock Golf Course has long flown in the face of accepted golfing industry wisdom.

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A teenage girl has told how a small shark tried to drag her from her board after biting her ankle as she surfed off the Australian east coast.

It arrived in a blaze of hats, heels, and alcohol, the day women love and men love to hate — it can only be Ladies Day in Galway.

TV show The Great British Sewing Bee looks set to make wardrobe revamps all the rage. In a week when designers paraded expensive labels across London catwalks, we set an ‘upstyler’ a challenge — create four catwalk looks from a charity shop, with a budget of just €30.

The latest winter storm to hit America’s East Coast grounded more than 6,500 flights as hundreds of thousands in the ice-encrusted South remained without power.

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A top CSKA Moscow official believes his club are victims of a British smear campaign against Russian football following widespread calls for punishment over Yaya Toure’s accusations of racist abuse.

UEFA is investigating allegations of racist abuse against Manchester City’s Yaya Toure and has warned that clubs will no longer escape with just fines if their supporters are guilty of discriminatory behaviour.

A stone mason was being questioned tonight about the suspicious deaths of three former girlfriends in a rural town in Northern Ireland.

Liverpool defender Kolo Toure joked striker Luis Suarez could “do anything” and the players would welcome him back with open arms.

Manager Arsene Wenger has not ruled out bringing Arsenal legend Thierry Henry back for a third spell with the club.

An expert has determined that a surfer was killed off California’s Central Coast by a 15 to 16ft great white shark.

A group of up to five people have been rescued by the Ballycotton RNLI lifeboat off the east coast of Cork this afternoon.

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Barcelona president Sandro Rosell has dismissed media speculation linking Didier Drogba with a move to the Catalan giants.

Next month's Irish Open golf championship at Royal Portrush is set to become a near sell-out.

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court is in line to be appointed as FIFA’s first head of the new ethics committee’s investigations arm.

Judges at an international war crimes tribunal have begun delivering landmark judgments in the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.

JAMES McCLEAN may take some convincing, but it is highly unlikely the youngster’s glaring second half miss at Stamford Bridge diminished his all-round performance in the eyes of the Giovanni Trapattoni.

Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson insisted there was no need for panic after seeing his title-chasers humbled at Newcastle.

Andre Villas-Boas will be officially presented as Chelsea’s new manager this morning, determined to demonstrate just why he was the “outstanding candidate” to take the west London club forwards.

ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger will step up his summer recruitment drive ahead of the start of pre-season training next week, but reported target Juan Mata insists he is happy to stay put at Valencia.

Andre Villas-Boas is unlikely to declare himself the new “Special One” when he is officially unveiled as Chelsea manager tomorrow, but nevertheless the Portuguese coach will be out to make his own mark at Stamford Bridge.

The head of Ivory Coast’s highest court has proclaimed Alassane Ouattara president.

Former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo is to be put on trial facing charges on a “national and international” level.

Ivory Coast’s strongman leader Laurent Gbagbo holed up in a bunker defiantly maintaining he won the election four months ago even as troops backing the internationally recognised winner encircled the presidential residence.

Residents barricaded themselves inside their homes, blanketing windows and pushing furniture against doors as Abidjan awaited the final battle between the two men who claim Ivory Coast’s presidency.

Rebel forces supporting the internationally recognised leader of Ivory Coast have seized the strategic cocoa-exporting port of San Pedro, residents said.

A rebel army allied with Ivory Coast’s democratically elected president has taken control of a fourth town in the country’s far West, a military spokesman said.

Newcastle midfielder Cheick Tiote has signed a new contract which commits him to the club until the end of the 2016/17 season.

A leading ally of the man widely recognised as Ivory Coast’s new president said today that incumbent Laurent Gbagbo is using stalling tactics to stay in power and urged the international community to intervene with “legitimate force” to remove him.

Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has been sworn in for a new term even though the UN and others say his opponent won the recent election.

Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba has returned to lead the Chelsea attack against Wolves in today's Barclays Premier League clash at Stamford Bridg

Chelsea captain John Terry has shaken off a rib injury to be included in the squad to face MSK Zilina in the Champions League.

The last ferry left for the mainland and residents took shelter as Hurricane Earl closed in on North Carolina’s dangerously exposed Outer Banks today with 105mph winds.

A powerful Hurricane Earl threatened to lash much of America’s East Coast, forcing Labour Day holidaymakers to rethink spending the traditional last week of summer at the beach.

Under-20 Colombia international goalkeeper Cristian Bonilla claims he is set to sign for Manchester City.

Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba was named among the substitutes for this afternoon’s World Cup opener against Portugal just 10 days after breaking his arm.