Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is enjoying the Europa League and is confident it will not impact on his side’s improving domestic form.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has ruled out any chance of Steven Gerrard playing for the club again.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has launched himself into a club-versus-country row less than two weeks into his reign after likening England’s handling of Jordan Rossiter to that of a horse.

Good evening. Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on IrishExaminer.com today.

In Ireland, there is only one currency that trades at a profit when it comes to minority sports, so Fiona Doyle was front and centre with the general public last month when she won silver and bronze medals at the World University Games in Gwangju.

IBRC’s special liquidators have bought out its partner in the controversial joint-venture it established nearly three years ago to recover key Quinn family assets in Russia and Ukraine, for $34m (€31m).

Five people have been confirmed dead and 25 more are missing presumed dead after a shopping centre in the Russian city of Kazan collapsed during a massive fire.

Michael Phelps could be allowed to compete at this year’s world swimming championships after all.

Kelly Proper breezed into the semi-finals of the women’s 200m at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich this morning, taking an automatic qualifying spot by coming fourth in her first-round heat.

Pilot error caused the latest Russian airliner crash which killed 50 people in Kazan, investigators say.

An airport security camera video has captured a doomed Russian airliner plunging to the ground in a near-vertical crash, killing all 50 on board.

Russian investigators are combing through the charred fragments of a Boeing 737 jetliner as they try to determine what caused it to crash, killing all 50 people on board.

A Boeing 737 airliner crashed in the Russian city of Kazan yesterday, killing all 50 people on board and spotlighting the poor safety record of regional airlines that ply internal routes across the world’s largest nation.

Dozens of people have been killed after a passenger plane crashed in Russia.

Russia has installed an all- encompassing surveillance system at the site of next year’s Winter Olympic Games in Sochi that will allow security services to listen in on athletes and visitors, security analysts claimed.

Robin van Persie struck an injury-time penalty as The Netherlands maintained their unbeaten record in World Cup qualifying with a last-gasp draw in Estonia tonight.

Laura Reynolds, the only Irish athlete in World Championship action today, endured a tough time in the 20km race walk.

Athletics Ireland have announced a hugely inexperienced squad for the upcoming World Championships.

Peter the Great patterned the city after Amsterdam, and even though St Petersburg is newer than New York by almost 100 years, in some places it feels a thousand years old — a few buildings seem to be a cross between Roman ruins and German palaces. The building walls, usually between three and four feet thick, host basement cafés and restaurants where you can’t get a mobile phone signal. The walls are moist, and smell like rivers, because the city was built on marshland.

Chelsea’s Europa League opponents Rubin Kazan insist they want to play at their home stadium instead of Moscow.

The 11 host cities for the 2018 World Cup in Russia have been announced.

Police have detained a man who has confessed to killing two women in a central Russian city and trying to mislead investigations by scrawling a message at the murder scene demanding freedom for jailed members of the Pussy Riot band.

The bodies of two murdered women were found beneath a scrawled message demanding freedom for jailed members of Pussy Riot, Russian officials said today.

Police in Russia have charged four members of a Muslim sect with cruelty against children after the group spent almost a decade living underground.

Four people have been detained on suspicion of killing a top Muslim cleric and injuring another in Russia’s Tatarstan province, prosecutors said today.

A top Muslim cleric has been shot dead and another injured by a car bomb in Russia’s Tatarstan province, officials said.

Rubin Kazan 4 Shamrock Rovers 1

MICHAEL O’NEILL fears Shamrock Rovers will face their biggest trial yet against classy Rubin Kazan here in the depths of freezing Tatarstan tonight.

WILLIAM GALLAS has urged his Tottenham team-mates to go and out deliver a win for manager Harry Redknapp against Fulham tomorrow.

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp will leave hospital today after undergoing a successful procedure to unblock two coronary arteries.

Kevin Bond has instructed Tottenham’s players to put a smile back on Harry Redknapp’s face by securing their passage to the last 32 of the Europa League with a win over Rubin Kazan tonight.

Shamrock Rovers' chairman Jonathan Roche has said the Tottenham Europa League fixtures were "a dream come true" for the fans.

Arsenal will be hoping to avoid Udinese and Rubin Kazan when the draw is made tomorrow for the Champions League play-off round in Nyon.

More than 100 people, many of them children, were feared drowned today after an overloaded Russian cruise ship sank on the Volga river.

Dozens of children are believed to be among 101 people missing after a 56-year-old tourist boat with 188 people on board listed and sank in one of the world’s largest reservoirs.

At least one person has been killed and 15 others are missing after a passenger boat with more than 180 people onboard sank on the Volga river in central Russia.

A RUSSIAN chimpanzee has been sent for rehabilitation treatment by zoo-keepers to cure his smoking and beer-drinking habits, a newspaper reported yesterday.

Zenit St Petersburg forward Andrei Arshavin has revealed his frustration at the delay over his proposed move to Tottenham – and hopes his “whining” will convince bosses to let him leave.

A crowded minibus and a car collided on a highway in central Russia today, sparking a powerful fire and killing 13 people travelling in the vehicles.

Pope John Paul II believes “the time is ripe” to return a revered icon to Russia, hoping to give a major push to improving relations between Catholics and Russian Orthodox Christians, his spokesman said today.