Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon took five wickets in the final session to end West Indies' fightback on day three of the second Test in Port of Spain.

Stuart Lancaster has finally been able to drop the interim tag after being officially appointed as England's head coach.

Lesley Cunliffe served 12 years in prison for the kidnap and rape of a 21-year-old woman

A British rapist who carried out a horrific sex attack likened to The Silence of the Lambs has been deported from Australia to the UK.

Rick Santorum scored an upset double primary triumph in the deep south last night, guaranteeing that the Republican presidential race will drag on for weeks if not months yet. His victories in Alabama and Mississippi deliver a fresh jolt to the limping front runner Mitt Romney, and raise pressure on Newt Gingrich, his rival for the conservative vote, to drop out and thus set up a one-on-one Santorum-Romney battle for the Republican nomination to face president Obama in the autumn.

Rick Santorum has overwhelmingly won the Kansas Republican presidential caucuses, hoping to blunt front-runner Mitt Romney's momentum in the grinding campaign for the nomination to oppose US President Barack Obama in the November election.

Rick Santorum overwhelmingly won the Kansas presidential caucuses, hoping to blunt front-runner Mitt Romney's momentum in the grinding campaign for the nomination to oppose President Barack Obama in the November election.

Indigenous people have been at war with the Aussie establishment for generations. But an army unit that prizes their skills is now fighting the age-old prejudices

Serco, the outsourcing group behind the Boris Bikes hire scheme, has reported a 13 per cent jump in profits as strong growth in Asia and Australia more than lustre demand in Britain and America.

Amid reports of arm-twisting by party apparatchiks and threats of retribution, Australian Labor MPs are consulting their consciences – and, in many cases, contemplating their wafer-thin majorities – as they ponder whether to support Julia Gillard or Kevin Rudd in a leadership ballot on Monday.

Aware of their wafer-thin majorities, Australia's Labor MPs are pondering whether to support Julia Gillard or Kevin Rudd in a Monday's leadership ballot.

BT shares yesterday rose 4 per cent to a three-and-a-half-year high as the telecoms giant boosted profits, despite another dip in revenues and some renewed concern over its pension liabilities.

The latest scorecard from the fourth one-day international.

The Bass Strait was a fantastic passage for me. It was a pity that when the time came to make the call about staying to the south on the racing line and risking the batteries or heading north I had to head so far north that I had to go through the Bass Strait.