Our quick guide to tonight's television.

ENGLAND: Police have been mocked on social media after appealing for information about a stolen towel.

RUSSIA: He’s flown with cranes, petted a polar bear, and tranquilised a tiger. Now Vladimir Putin is ready to face the Downward Dog.

Your guide to the best of tonight's viewing on TV.

Works of art by Peter Paul Rubens, David Teniers the Younger, and Francesco Guardi are among a small group of carefully selected Old Masters from Russborough House that will be sold at Christie’s in London in July.

Police have apologised to victims of Jimmy Savile and one of his friends after concluding that officers missed opportunities to properly investigate the two men over alleged child abuse when they were still alive.

Van Morisson’s incantations and repetitions, admonitions, yearnings and folk-music prove that people walked this earth yearning for a heaven elsewhere. Thomas McCarthy on a selection of Morisson’s lyrics.

The jury in the trial of an Irishman accused of murder in Australia has been shown footage of a police interview recorded after the alleged incident.

Why so blue?

A man is seriously ill after he was bitten three times by a snake while at an adventure park.

At Newcastle Central

Irish art and collectibles among 500 items from the Charlie Hennessy estate, Des O’Sullivan reports.

Wheelie bin cleaner Craig Brazier yesterday met the horse that won him £1,342,559 on the Scoop6 as he visited trainer Alan King’s Barbury Castle stables in Wiltshire.

Penguins given ‘happy pills’ in soaking Britain

It seemed like a dream come true — a free holiday to Canada complete with new luggage — until the Australian couple involved realised they had unwittingly become drug mules.

Detailed accusations about Jimmy Savile’s sex crimes were censored after viewers tried to post them on a BBC tribute web page after his death.

A Wexford man who was stabbed in the neck during a fight in Perth, Australia, a week ago, has died.

An Irish man has died in hospital in Australia from wounds sustained in a stabbing attack.

Detectives investigating the stabbing of an Irish man in Perth believe an eye-witness has video footage of the attack.

Jimmy Savile would regularly take teenage girls to a private hospital block alone, a former porter has claimed.

BBC director-general George Entwistle has asked a senior colleague to answer journalists’ questions on the dropping of a documentary about Jimmy Savile.

Jimmy Savile's headstone will be broken up and sent to landfill after it was removed late last night.

The headstone on Jimmy Savile’s grave has been removed after his family requested it be taken away out of “respect to public opinion”.

Anger over Jimmy Savile’s alleged sex abuse, as more women make claims they were victims over many years, has led to a memorial being attacked and fears of further reprisals.

Three years ago Cork driver Keith Cronin set a target to win the British Rally Championship.

South-east Asian diplomats have failed to reach common ground on how to resolve a territorial dispute involving China, as a regional conference ended without a joint statement for the first time in the bloc’s history.

A man wanted over the murders of two people was arrested today after he was spotted in the street by an off-duty police officer.

The detective leading the manhunt in Britain for a man suspected of killing two people in their own homes has urged him to give himself up.

The Philippines foreign secretary says he and the Chinese ambassador have agreed to resolve diplomatically a stand-off involving a Philippine warship and two Chinese surveillance vessels in a disputed area of the South China Sea.

Stuart Lancaster was appointed England head coach after the crowd rose to acclaim him and his team for their Six Nations win over Ireland, RFU Chief Executive Ian Ritchie has confirmed.

A British town councillor claims his mother is a green alien.

JIMMY SAVILE “brought a little bit of magic and sparkle to everybody that he met”, mourners at his funeral service were told yesterday.

Two 'X Factor' contestants will be booted out of the competition tonight in a dramatic double eviction.

Jimmy Savile is to be buried with one of his iconic cigars.

THE Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship could be decided in tomorrow’s Omagh-based Bushwhacker Rally, the penultimate round of both the Irish series and the Hankook Northern Ireland Rally Championship.

WITH an unbeaten record in the current Dunlop National Rally Championship, Tim McNulty, can clinch his first major title on Sunday’s eighth round of the series in Clare although he will need a little help from his rivals.

Motorists battled with hazardous conditions on the roads today as the widest-spread November snowfall for 17 years gripped the UK.

BRITISH RALLY champion, Keith Cronin is not that accustomed to playing the percentage game, mostly because the Cork driver hasn’t been required to adopt such a role.

Daniel Radcliffe is swapping 'Harry Potter' for hammer horror to star in gothic thriller 'The Woman in Black', it was confirmed today.

HUNDREDS of hospital patients have been asked to undergo testing after it was found a healthcare worker who treated them may have been infected with HIV.

The UK’s third biggest building society is in talks to merge with a smaller rival in the latest of a series of tie-ups in the struggling sector, it emerged today.

CAPTURED Irish sailor David Bloomer is mentally strong and will be helping his fellow yachtsmen during their ordeal in Iran, a friend has said.

Captured Irish sailor David Bloomer is mentally strong and will be helping his fellow yachtsmen during their ordeal in Iran, a friend said today.

Budget hotel chain Travelodge continued its expansion today by announcing the addition of seven new sites to its portfolio in a £70m (€88.4m) investment.