Segway polo could only be described as a niche sport, invented by technology workers in Silicon Valley in the United States around 2003 - where a number of teams are still playing. The sport began when two Segway owners, Jonathan VanClute and Alex Ko, fashioned makeshift mallets from PVC piping and used them to hit a miniature beach ball in the park.

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Sir Keith Mills adds Glazebrook Trophy to Queen's Cup won on opening day at Cowes

By just two seconds, Sir Keith Mills and the crew of his TP52 Fiveᵒ West pipped rival Johnny’s Vincent’s Pace to add the Glazebrook Tophy to the Queen’s Cup they won on the opening day of the AAM Cowes Week.

Emirates Team New Zealand, right, and Luna Rossa Challenge race towards the second turning mark as they compete in a seven-leg course in the first race of Round 5 of the Louis Vuitton Cup

Kiwis opt out of further racing and choose direct route to Louis Vuitton Cup final

The Kiwis have chosen to bypass the semi-final stage of the Louis Vuitton Cup elimination trials to challenge for the America’s Cup. By winning the preliminary round robin, Emirates Team New Zealand exercised its right to choose between selecting a semi-final opponent or going direct to the final.

Social network giant Twitter apologises after sending fake tweets from real user accounts

Promotional blog featured posts from real users apparently discussing commercials they had seen

“Kill switch” software to tackle smartphone theft as Boris Johnson calls for action

New security measures needed as part of “corporate responsibility, Mayor tells companies

Three people were killed and more than 180 injured in the crash

San Francisco crash: Authorities confirm third victim died after being struck by a rescue vehicle

County Coroner says victim was still alive when she was hit by a rescue truck

US-led bids vie to take over buying MoD’s kit

A trio of US-led consortiums have formed to bid on the Ministry of Defence’s hugely controversial quasi-privatisation of the £14bn agency that buys the armed forces’ submarines, tanks and air-to-air missiles.

Three people were killed and more than 180 injured in the crash

Asiana San Francisco runway crash survivors
to sue Boeing

Seatbelts and collapsing seats said to have  exacerbated injuries of 83 people

Demonstrators in Los Angeles protesting about the result of the case

George Zimmerman trial: Reverend Al Sharpton calls for day of action as Trayvon Martin juror reveals doubts

Half of all-female jury ‘thought George  Zimmerman was guilty but were talked out of it’

San Francisco plane crash: Asiana Airlines will sue KTVU after TV station 'used racially offensive names' for the pilots

The airline claims that the incident seriously damaged Asiana's reputation

Liu Yipeng was a classmate of the two earlier victims

Chinese schoolgirl, 15, named as third victim of Asiana runway crash

The third person to die from injuries sustained when an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed in San Francisco has been identified as a 15-year-old classmate of the two earlier victims.

Captain America’s: Sir Russell Coutts is chief of the defending Oracle team

The America’s Cup fails to impress with revolutionary adjustments

It was supposed to be a wholesale restyling of an event that goes back to a yacht race around the Isle of Wight in 1851. It was going to be, rather insultingly to some, a switch from the Flintstone to the Facebook generation. Instead it has fallen into the age-old traps of overweening ambition and misguided dollops of greed.

What's your vector, Victor? A young pilot takes the controls of an Airbus A380

Simon Calder: Touch down at London's new draw

The man who pays his way

U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators work at the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash site at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California

Third victim of the Asiana air crash at San Francisco airport has been identified

Identity of third child revealed as authorities confirm that one of the earlier victims was hit by a fire engine

Kurt Vile is touring this autumn

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The songs that are hot on our playlist this week

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