You'll gasp at the acrobats, you'll gawp at their scruffiness, you'll wonder what two fire engines are doing in the car park... Archie Bland runs away with the NoFit State Circus

For Chris Gayle, the physical pain would have been trifling compared to the mental anguish. As soon as the West Indies captain felt the sharp pain at the back of his right thigh after completing the sharp, risky single to raise his hundred yesterday, he knew his team's chances of protecting their 1-0 lead in the series were out of his hands.

First she won her fight for specialist primary schooling for her severely disabled son. Now Saera Carter has triumphed again by securing a secondary centre for him and others.

Organisations offering voluntary work in developing countries are being inundated by applications from middle-aged professionals, says Emily Dugan

Government apologises as it considers compensation

A doctor was today demanding his soon-to-be former wife pay him £1 million compensation for a kidney he gave her while they were still together.

A teenager left paralysed after a snowboarding accident is set to fulfil his lifelong dream of joining the army.

The Chancellor said yesterday that the Government was willing to provide guarantees on bonds backed by mortgages to get the market for new home loans moving again.

Acupuncturists, Chinese medicine practitioners and medical herbalists should be formally regulated to ensure they are "fit to practise", the Health Professions Council (HPC) told the Government today.

Battling half-centuries from Matthew Hayden, Simon Katich, Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey put Australia within striking distance of averting the follow-on in the third Border-Gavaskar Test against India in Delhi.

England player Matt Hampson, 23, was paralysed while training. He describes how he rebuilt his life

The diminutive Leeds scrum-half with sideline in massage will again take a big hand in the Grand Final By Dave Hadfield

If you ask me: America has to choose between the world's oldest white guy and an arrogant black rock star

A defiant Gordon Brown will take on his critics in the Cabinet today by pledging to confront and overcome his problems, in a personal appeal to ministers to back his forthcoming "policy blitz" and save his embattled leadership.