Katie Taylor has vowed to make more history at the Rio Olympics after being confirmed as an all-time great at the AIBA World Women’s Elite Championships in Jeju, South Korea yesterday.

Katie Taylor has won the Women's World Boxing Championships lightweight title in South Korea.

Katie Taylor reached the semi-finals of the AIBA World Women’s Elite Championships in Jeju, South Korea yesterday without throwing a punch.

Olympic champion Katie Taylor and Commonwealth Games silver medallist Michaela Walsh posted landslide last-32 victories at the AIBA World Women’s Elite Championships in Jeju, South Korea yesterday.

Olympic champion Katie Taylor opens her title defence at the AIBA World Women’s Elite Championships in Jeju, South Korea against Dominica’s Valerian Spicer today.

Italia Thunder have drafted Ireland’s London 2012 bronze medallists Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan into their squad for the 2015 World Series of Boxing (WSB) season.

As parents of the dead wept, more than 70 teenagers who survived a ferry sinking that killed hundreds of their schoolmates walked in a procession to their first classes since the disaster.

South Korean police yesterday arrested a younger brother of the country’s most wanted man, a businessman linked to a ferry disaster in which hundreds of school children drowned, as authorities cast a wide net for the fugitive’s family.

Russian southpaw Sofya Ochigava and Katie Taylor are just one win each away from setting up a repeat of their 2012 Olympic lightweight final in London.

Prosecutors have indicted the captain of the sunken South Korean ferry and three crew members on homicide charges, alleging that they failed to carry out their duties to protect passengers.

The doomed ferry, Sewol, exceeded its cargo limit on 246 trips — nearly every voyage it made in which it reported cargo — in the 13 months before it sank, according to documents.

A video made by a young victim of the South Korea ferry disaster shows teenagers line up for selfies amid nervous laughter as the ferry begins to tilt and later leave final messages as they fear for their lives.

Divers have renewed their search for more than 100 bodies still trapped in the sunken South Korean ferry after weekend efforts were hindered by bad weather, strong currents and floating debris clogging the ship’s rooms.

All 15 crew members involved in navigating the doomed South Korean ferry which left 302 people dead or missing after sinking, are now in custody, authorities said today.

Frustrated relatives of the scores still missing from the capsized ferry Sewol have staged a marathon confrontation with South Korea’s fisheries minister and the coastguard chief.

A distress call believed to be the first made from sinking South Korean ferry was made by a boy with a shaking voice, three minutes after the vessel made its fateful last turn.

New evidence shows that the sunken South Korean ferry did not make a sharp turn shortly before the disaster, but changed course much more gradually, it has emerged.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has said the captain and some crew members of the sunken ferry committed “unforgivable, murderous acts” in the disaster, which left more than 300 people dead or missing.

The confirmed death toll from South Korea’s ferry disaster rose past 50 yesterday as divers finally found a way inside the sunken vessel, quickly discovering more than a dozen bodies in what almost certainly is just the beginning of a massive and grim recovery effort.

After more than three days of frustration and failure, divers have finally found a way into a submerged ferry off South Korea’s southern shore, discovering more than a dozen bodies inside the ship and pushing the confirmed death toll to 50.

A doomed ferry’s captain delayed evacuation for half an hour after a South Korean transportation official ordered preparations to abandon ship, according to a transcript of the ship-to-shore exchange and interviews with a crew member.

An immediate evacuation order was not issued for the stricken South Korean ferry because officers on the bridge were trying to stabilise the vessel after it started to list amid confusion and chaos, a crew member says.

Strong currents and poor visibility hampered rescuers in the search for 287 passengers still missing more than 24 hours after their ferry flipped on to its side and filled with cold water off the southern coast of South Korea.

A ferry carrying 459 people, mostly high school students, has sunk off South Korea, leaving at least three people dead and nearly 300 missing.

THE stallholder couldn’t understand a word I was saying.

A spy plane crashed today during routine training and its two pilots were killed in the second military accident to strike South Korea as it hosted the G20 summit.

CHINA resisted pressure yesterday from South Korea and Japan to censure North Korea publicly for the sinking of a warship, calling only for regional tensions over the incident to be defused.

The prime minister of China, North Korea’s main ally, offered condolences today to South Korea for the sinking of a warship blamed on Pyongyang after promising his country – under pressure to punish the North – would not defend any country guilty of the attack.

CHINA will not protect those who sank a South Korean warship, Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday, as he came under pressure in Seoul to join an international push to punish North Korea.

LITTLE did Graeme McDowell appreciate two years ago the magnitude of his victory in the inaugural Ballantine’s Championship in Korea.

THE staff and the owner’s family were waiting outside the Hoban Korean Restaurant, applauding when Y.E. Yang arrived.

NORTH KOREA has transported its most advanced missile, believed to be capable of reaching Alaska, to a launch site on its west coast near China, news reports said.

South Korea imposed heavy security today for a summit with south-east Asian leaders following North Korean nuclear and missile tests that frayed nerves across the region.

FRANCE’S finance minister has urged Europe and Asia to work together to ease the effects of soaring fuel and food prices.

GRAEME MCDOWELL’S success in the Ballantine’s Championship may have resulted in a change of schedule, but it is a welcome hassle for the Irishman as he seeks a place in the European Ryder Cup team.

North Korea would consider dismantling its nuclear weapons programme if the communist country’s relations with the US, Japan and South Korea improved, China’s envoy to Seoul said today.

Padraig Harrington had to settle for a share of 11th place at the Korean Golf Championship in Jeju Province.

At least four people died today after a tropical storm hit South Korea, causing floods and landslides.

Paraguay supersub Nelson Cuevas will start on the bench against Germany tomorrow despite his two goals against Slovenia.

Paraguay supersub Nelson Cuevas will start on the bench against Germany tomorrow despite his two goals against Slovenia.

Given the injury problems afflicting the England squad, it is probably just as well that there are prayers being said for David Beckham’s fitness at the largest Buddhist temple in Asia.

Sven-Goran Eriksson has warned his England players that it is important to come to terms with the pitches they will encounter in Japan and Korea during the World Cup as well as the climate.

Leeds United full-back Danny Mills appears to be winning the race to be in the England team for their opening World Cup clash with Sweden on June 2.