The ice-cool Swedish champion Bjorn Borg against the brash John McEnroe who was snapping at his heels for the crown of the world's best player. Borg's four-year reign at Wimbledon seemed over when the ...

Queen's "We Are The Champions" blares out in the Red Bull garage and engineers and mechanics start an Abu Dhabi karaoke. Think there will be a massive party with those boys. Oh... hang on it's on ...

A drugs baron who was once the most wanted man in the North West has been jailed for life for the murder of one of his gangster rivals. Andrew Shacklady will serve a minimum of 21 years for killing ...

5: Atlantic City, USA, Paulie Malignaggi bt Herman Ngoudjo by unanimous decision (IBF light-welterweight). 10: Osaka, Japan, Hozumi Hasegawa bt Simone Maludrotto by unanimous decision (WBC ...

Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton has stunned the club by handing in a transfer request. City opened contract talks with the 23-year-old midfielder last week and manager Stuart Pearce insists he ...

The BBC's National Lottery show was briefly delayed on Saturday evening after protesters invaded the studio and chanted slogans. Presenter Eamonn Holmes was led from the stage as Fathers 4 Justice ...

Cameroon midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe has died after collapsing during an international match in France. The 28-year-old fell to the ground unchallenged in the 72nd minute of a Confederations Cup ...

A robotic baby that breathes, burps and can be X-rayed is being used for the first time by student nurses in Kent. The computer-controlled mannequin, "Sim Baby", is being operated by trainee nurses at ...

The Liverpool rearguard is one of the meanest around, but their defending regularly comes under scrutiny with boss Rafael ...

In a park in the Latvian capital Riga, a small group of protesters gathers, all Russian, some wearing paper hats inscribed with the word "Alien". Latvian police carry out a small, bureaucratic piece ...

The laws of the LBW dismissalThe umpire will consider an lbw decision if he believes the ball would have hit the stumps had its path not been obstructed by the batsman's pads or body. But the umpire ...

Test cricket, unlike most team sports, does not have tactical substitutions. The International Cricket Council (ICC), the sport's governing body, had introduced a 10-month trial in July 2005 to use ...