MARTIN DONNELLY, Irish sponsor of Matthew Macklin, planned to have hundreds of green T-shirts printed today with “Matthew Macklin — WORLD CHAMPION” on the back.

The US was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a new report.

Katy Perry and Russell Brand have had matching tattoos.

The co-owner of a catering company that organised events for the US Embassy is among six men detained by Pakistan for allegedly helping the failed Times Square bombing suspect, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said.

Movie star Michael Madsen left the Gumball 3,000 Rally on its first day after police stopped his driver for speeding, event organisers said today.

THERE seemed no way of dressing it up — putting a near-nude cowboy among crowds of shoppers on a biting cold day was surely nothing more than a cynical publicity stunt.

US TV networks rolled out their latest gimmicks as the presidential election results came in today.

Angry trade union leaders tonight vowed to fight plans to effectively end glass-making at Waterford Crystal’s last remaining Irish factory.

Superstar diva Mariah Carey is reported to have tied the knot in a private ceremony with a young actor.

Magician David Blaine is due to begin his latest stunt today – spending a week living underwater in a “human aquarium“.

David Blaine’s latest stunt – to hold his breath underwater for a record amount of time – will be broadcast on ITV.

Travellers going through some of the UK’s major airports are set to be greeted by people wearing computerised sandwich boards following a new deal agreed with a Dublin-based company today.

FROM the California courthouse to Michael Jackson’s old Indiana neighbourhood to towns around the world, fans reacted with euphoria at the pop star’s exoneration.

Two Lithuanians wearing only T-shirts and sweat pants emerged today from a block of ice, inside which they had spent 63 hours and 31 minutes in an attempt to outdo a similar stunt by US illusionist David Blaine.

They played the obligatory classics Hungry Like The Wolf and Girls On Film. But when Simon Le Bon ripped into the chorus of the new single (Reach Up for the) Sunrise, the sun suddenly illuminated New York’s Times Square as if to officially mark a new day for Duran Duran.

The biggest power cut in American history rolled across a vast swath of the northern United States and southern Canada yesterday, driving millions of people outdoors into stifling rush hour streets – then darkness.

A former FBI agent-turned-insurance executive yesterday shot two colleagues before turning the gun on himself in a murder-suicide attack.

A former FBI agent-turned-insurance executive today shot two colleagues before turning the gun on himself in a murder-suicide attack.

U2 are being lined up to headline a massive concert in New York’s Times Square only days before the Anniversary of September 11th.