Sports is what Australia excels in, and it is to sports that the government is now turning to deepen business links with...

Sport is what Australia excels in. Now the government is using the Australian Football League (AFL) to deepen sport and business links with...

London, Aug 27 : Football icon David Beckham hopes that Britain's huge medal haul at the Beijing Olympics will inspire youngsters to bring laurels to the country in...

London, Aug 27 : Classical musician turned TV presenter Myleene Klass has revealed that she attended piano and music lessons in school to hide away from...

London, August 27 : Golden boy Michael Phelps might have become a world sports icon on the back of his incredible haul of eight gold medals from the Beijing Olympics, but people hardly know that the real purpose behind his learning to swim was not to become a champion....

TAMPA | A federal grand jury has indicted a Mulberry businessman on charges that he tried to hire a hit man for $20,000 to kill an Internal Revenue Service employee who was auditing...

SAN MARINO, Calif. | Linda Sohus was a towering blonde fantasy buff who liked to paint unicorns. Her husband, Jonathan, was a diminutive computer programmer working at a NASA lab who shared his...

WASHINGTON | The Bush administration is raising the stakes in a court fight that could change the balance of power between the White House and...

DUNDEE | A firefighter for the Florida Division of Forestry was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing $1,500 of irrigation piping from his...

LAUREL, Miss. | Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi have long grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and that the immigrants were starting to get more overtime...

WASHINGTON | What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients $60 per...

WASHINGTON | A federal judge overseeing cases against Guantanamo Bay detainees said Wednesday that he fears the public - and the detainees themselves - will be locked out of the courtroom when...

NEW ORLEANS | On the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary, a nervous New Orleans watched Wednesday as another storm threatened to test everything the city has rebuilt, and officials made...

WASHINGTON | Security in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, where a brutal insurgency once ruled, has improved so drastically that the U.S. is about to return it to Iraqi control - opening the door...

BATUMI, Georgia | A U.S. military ship loaded with aid docked at a southern Georgian port Wednesday, and Russia sent three missile boats to another Georgian port as the standoff escalated over a...

Britain's sports minister criticized Premier League players for a lack of long-term committment to their clubs and backed Liverpool fans hoping to oust the team's American owners.Andy Burnham said he...

Twenty20 cricket will inevitably join the Olympic Games but could be dangerous to the international game unless it is accommodated in a congested calendar, says Australia captain Ricky Ponting.In a...

Spanish revellers have pelted each with 113 tons of ripe tomatoes in an annual food fight. Town hall says an estimated 40,000 people took part in the hour of messy fun in the village of Bunol near...

Real revolutions can only be started by those who have the most to gain. Nonetheless, few would have predicted this lot to ever storm the metaphorical barricades. Yet in an interview that is about to...

Tennis? The Borgs and Connors of yesteryear have yet to be replaced in the public imagination. Though more than 12 million people played tennis in 2007 — a 20 percent rise from the previous year...

In a bid to break a world record, residents are building hundreds of scarecrows — traditionally human figures stuffed with straw and dressed in old clothes to keep farm fields clear of crows and...

In some ways, cancer is like pests in your house -- the cells have no regard for the traditional rules of your body. Nonetheless, if you know their strategies, you can help yourself outwit them. How...

My body is wrong ', G2, August 14) sensitively reports the anguish of the young teenage transsexual as the body changes in the direction of the wrong sex. That anguish is medically treated in other...

The government should intervene to save families under threat of repossession by offering to buy their homes, the Liberal Democrats said yesterday. A scheme allowing struggling homeowners to sell...

Wise gardeners adopt low-impact building strategies aimed at developers, and apply them to gardens, helping not only the gardens but also our region's environment. Last week, we looked at green...

Q: My neighbor grows huge dahlias and has shared some of his tubers with me. I have lots of flowers but none as large as his. I give my dahlias full sun and fertilize with Miracle-Gro. Any other...

The government's proposals to build three Titan prisons (Supersize prisons will not solve jail crisis, watchdog warns Straw, August 27) would cement this country's position as the prison capital of...

It is still a man's world when it comes to rebuilding Britain's towns, with workplaces, schools, health centres, public transport and even public lavatories invariably being planned without taking...

On fielding difficult personal questions: I'm grateful to those who write in about how painful it is when people ask them if they ever wanted to have children and related painful questions. It's...

Dozens of squatters evicted yesterday from a housing estate in south London by bailiffs using battering rams last night decamped to blocks of flats which have been used for soldiers returning from...

Prison and probation officers are the latest to join a protest against plans to build three "Titan" prisons holding 2,500 inmates each.Their unions are among 34 criminal justice organisations - also...

Jennifer Hawkins’ flawless physique was the perfect prop to unveil her sexy new swimwear range at the Myer parade in Sydney last night. The sizzling show, in which models basked before a big gold...

A new "fat map" of the UK shows that obesity may be worsening in spite of efforts to fight it and parts of southern England are succumbing for the first...

Yesterday it was reported that one-fifth of the ayurvedic medicines available online contain potentially dangerous metals. With many people now buying herbal remedies on the web, just how hazardous...

Shia Muslims in central Kandahar, Afghanistan, beat themselves in a more extreme version of the ceremony. Photograph: Adam Butler/AP A Shia Muslim was convicted of child cruelty yesterday after he...

Model Kate Moss says she has been too skinny at times in her career. Photograph: Kevin Coombs/Reuters As summer fashion trends go, it is certainly an unexpected one. In the next issue of the...

Where else but the second annual Blues for Foodfest can you kick off your shoes and dance to the tunes of five outstanding local bands while helping raise funds to help feed the hungry? All proceeds...

Martin Yorwarth and first mate Egon Judeikis work the Thames waters from their base in Canvey Island, and their catch can be on sale in the heart of the capital within...

August 27, 2008—The rare pre-Inca mummy was masked and entombed with a child sacrifice. Found near high-rises in Lima, the tomb is one of the few known unlooted Wari burials.© 2008...

August 27, 2008—Alaskans voted down protections that would have stopped the huge proposed Pebble Creek mine, which may boost the area economy but could harm economically important...

Polk County firefighters were called to the scene at 11:18 a.m. today and found the wood-fame home fully involved.No one was home and officials have not yet learned the name of the owner and are...

The river at Tolt MacDonald Park is a bit chilly for these cousins on a family vacation. From left are Hellen Silva of Kirkland, Leticia Almeida of Redmond and Kennedy Sousa of...

My neighbors are amazingly rude. They've been leaving large pieces of trash -- like an old sofa and a broken desk -- on the sidewalk, and it overflows onto my property. Yesterday, I found a homeless...

My wife is totally disabled because of a massive stroke and probably won't ever get better. Now some of my friends are telling me I'm crazy not to find a mistress. How can I explain to them that God...

HAINES CITY | Police arrested two brothers Wednesday on charges of home invasion robbery, criminal conspiracy and misdemeanor battery, according to a press statement from the Haines City Police...

In an exclusive chat, the stars who won fame as Brenda and Kelly discuss the hotly anticipated series reboot, putting the past behind them (including any fisticuffs), and whether Jennie got Shannen's...

DAVENPORT | The city rescinded its precautionary boil-water notice on Wednesday following successful repair of a broken water line, said City Manager Amy Arrington in a press...

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (CBS) ― It's no act: a Hollywood superstar is upset about plans to cut the sports programs in a local New York school district. Now he's digging into his own pocket and...

A recount of the Dick Mullenax-Brenda Reddout School Board race has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Supervisor of Elections office in...

We've been trying to get our kids to ride their bikes for about a year and a half. It hasn't been a constant battle -- we would try for a bit, then take a month off. Rinse. Repeat. It's been tough,...