WORLD CUP QUARTER-FINAL:

A MAN who murdered the sister of Frasier star Kelsey Grammer and two other people more than three decades ago has been denied parole after the prison board heard a written statement from Grammer calling the man a butcher and a monster.

AN American senior citizen killed an alleged mugger with his bare hands, and his travelling companions aboard a tour bus fended off two other assailants in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said.

FEW of us can plead ignorance about the scandalous rate of pay and dire working conditions that many people in the third world endure, to provide us with the daily luxuries that so many of us now take for granted.