London, Jan. 29 : England fast bowler Steve Harmison is in danger of being omitted from the First Test against the West Indies to be played in Jamaica from February 4 after another poor start to the tour.

He may be able to save his place if he bowls well in England's final practice match here against West Indies A over the next three days.

If not, he could make way for Stuart Broad, Ryan Sidebottom and James Anderson, reports The Sun.

London, Jan 29 : Paris Hilton has set the record straight: she won't be hitting on Prince Harry because Chelsy Davy is a friend.

Speaking at the launch of her new ITV2 show, `Paris Hilton''s British Best Friend', the 27-year-old socialite said that she had no plans to romance the Royal, who recently split with girlfriend Davy.

London, Jan 29 : Denise Van Outen will soon be tying the knot with stage star boyfriend Lee Mead, according to reports.

The 27-year-old winner of BBC1's `Any Dream Will Do talent' show, which Denise judged, asked her to marry him last week.

Soon after the couple took off for a Caribbean holiday.

The couple met on the reality show, which Lee won, landing the lead role in musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

"Denise and Lee are so happy," The Sun quoted a pal of the couple as saying.

Lee proposed Denise in the traditional fashion of going down on one knee and then took her to St Lucia.

London  - Newcastle pair Michael Owen and Joey Barton are set for lengthy spells on the sidelines after both suffered ankle injuries in action on Wednesday.

Owen cracked a bone in his ankle playing against Manchester City and will be out for about six weeks. Barton suffered a similar injury and will miss 10 weeks.

"It's one thing after another at the moment," Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear said.

"Michael's on crutches already for protection and he's going to have a scan tomorrow.

London  - Chelsea beat Middlesbrough 2-0 to move up to second place in the English Premier League on Wednesday after Liverpool's title hopes took another blow with a 1-1 draw at Wigan Athletic.

Two second-half goals from Salomon Kalou sealed the points for Chelsea, putting them above Liverpool on goal difference, two points behind leaders Manchester United.

Arsenal lost more ground after they were held 1-1 at Everton, while Manchester City and West Ham United both earned victories.

Chelsea were frustrated for the best part of an hour at Stamford Bridge as Middlesbrough matched them but Kalou broke the deadlock on 58 minutes.

London  - Nearly 90 years after its triumphant premiere in German, Erich Korngold's opera Die tote Stadt has been received with acclaim at its first-ever staging in Britain at London's Covent Garden opera house.

German conductor Ingo Metzmacher, principal conductor and artistic director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester in Berlin, Tuesday made his own debut at London's leading opera house conducting the opera that was premiered simultaneously in Hamburg and Cologne in December, 1920.