West Indies 179-5 beat England 164-4 by 15 runs

Sri Lanka lost to South Africa by six wickets in the opening match of the Women's World Twenty20 in Galle after the hosts were skittled for 79, including five run-outs.

It's tricky being a reporter in Tampa if part of your job is keeping your own biases under wraps, particularly so in the age of Twitter, a repository for all our cheers or jeers as successive speakers take the stage. But some things should not be said, ever.

Emergency personnel in Florida rushed yesterday to finalise contingency plans to postpone or relocate next week's Republican Party convention in Tampa, should the area be lashed by Tropical Storm Isaac.

Belize is offering bondholders just 20 cents in the dollar in an attempted debt restructuring which is on even worse terms than Argentina's after it defaulted in 2001.

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Great Britain's Shara Proctor made swift work of qualifying for the final of the long jump at the Olympic Stadium tonight.

Bolton rider beats Baugé to become first British male athlete to win two golds at last two Games

Julien Temple's kaleidoscopic portrait of London since 1900 is sprawling and uneven, yet vibrant and humorous, rather like the city itself.

The former Fifa presidential candidate, Mohamed Bin Hammam, has been provisionally suspended by football's governing body only a week after his life ban for bribery was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

A candid, and deeply affecting, report of one woman's encounter with a street gang

The Asian Football Confederation accused its disgraced president Mohammed bin Hammam of bribery after an internal audit revealed fresh allegations of financial wrongdoings by the Qatari football official.

Thousands of leatherback turtle eggs and hatchlings have been crushed by heavy machinery along a Trinidad beach widely regarded as the world's densest nesting area for the biggest of all living sea turtles, conservationists said.