A man has been found dead in the wheel well of an Irish registered passenger jet at a Moscow airport.

Roberto Mancini is certain Carlos Tevez will not carry through his threat to quit top level football.

Ryanair is to base one new aircraft in Bristol airport and two new planes at Liverpool.

ONLY now can the full horrific story of ‘planegate’ be told.

MILLIONS of Italians and foreigners failed once again to guess the winning numbers in Italy’s state lottery, and the record jackpot climbed to €139.9 million after Monday night’s draw.

Actress Angelina Jolie has cancelled plans to give a lecture in Italy this week, amid reports she is pregnant with her and Brad Pitt's second biological child.

WALES boss John Toshack claims some of his players are spoilt, pampered and lacking in professional pride.

WRECKED.

Christian Rigano scored twice as struggling Messina boosted their survival hopes with a surprise 2-0 victory over 10-man Palermo today.

I UNDERSTAND that literally tens of letters have flooded into the Irish Examiner, expressing ineffable joy at the news that the paper’s soccer correspondent is alive and well and back on terra firma after Monday evening’s heart-stopping mid-air drama which one newspaper dubbed ‘Stan’s jet terror’.

SEVEN uncapped players flew to Rimini at Steve Staunton’s behest on Monday but, elated as they all undoubtedly were, none would have sported a wider grin than Ian Harte.

Lee Carsley is relishing his second coming with the Republic of Ireland squad.

THE plane carrying the Republic of Ireland soccer squad to San Marino for tomorrow night’s Euro 2008 qualifier was forced to return to Dublin airport due to a technical fault.

The Republic of Ireland’s trip to San Marino has begun in farcical circumstances, with their plane forced to return to Dublin airport after 90 minutes in the air.

Three second-half goals saw Juventus return to winning ways in Serie A with a comfortable victory over 10-man Livorno.

Ireland’s basketball team will play Italy, Latvia and Lithuania, three of the top 10 teams in the world, as part of their preparation tournament for the 2005 European Championships.

One of the two freed Italian aid workers said today that their abductors in Iraq taught them about Islam and reassured them they would not die.

POPE John Paul yesterday condemned human cloning as an arrogant attempt to improve on God’s creation.

An inquest into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of fallen Italian cycling hero Marco Pantani has found that he died of a cocaine overdose.

THE investigation into the death of Italian cycling great Marco Pantani will “take weeks”, the pathologist who carried out the autopsy of the 34-year-old rider said yesterday.

The worldwide cycling community will await the results of today’s post-mortem following the sudden death of the great Italian Marco Pantani.

Italian sport is in shock following the death of legendary cyclist Marco Pantani.