News Source: The Independent
| about 8 hours ago
I was thrilled this week to take possession of a fantastic model boat. I'd seen it on display at the lifeboat station in Looe on our trips to Cornwall and admired it...I was happy to put my hand in my pocket. It's amazing the weather the lifeboatmen
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 19 hours ago
Her name is Esther ''Bobbie'' Heine Miller. She was born in South Africa but has lived in Canberra for the past 50 years … and she is 100 years old today. Back in the late 1920s, and then into the 1930s, she was a French Open doubles champion, a
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 19 hours ago
Sports quick to cash in on the Dubai phenomenon may rue the day, writes Richard Williams. It would be inhuman not to feel sympathy for the individuals threatened by Dubai's financial crisis, from the Chinese labourers working on the world's tallest
News Source: The Daily Courier
| 1 day ago
What do you get when you cross the games of badminton, ping pong and tennis? It's one of the fastest growing game in the country: Pickleball. The game that began in the summer of 1965 by two desperate dads in the Puget Sound area of Washington state,
News Source: The Scotsman
| 1 day ago
Ambitious Andy Murray not satisfied with year, and aims to hit heights in 2010 Published Date: 04 December 2009 THE Scottish dark nights are one thing but as he refocuses on a new season, Andy Murray is envisaging far brighter days. • Andy
News Source: The independent
| 1 day ago
Amelie Mauresmo, who announced her retirement yesterday at the age of 30, would like to be remembered, no doubt, as a woman who became the world No 1, winning Wimbledon and the Australian Open: a player who combined athleticism with grace and craft
News Source: Daily Nation
| 1 day ago
Internet search giant, Google, has published its 2009 Zeitgeist, a list of the most popular topics online. Kenyans priorities are on jobs, news, finances and the government when it came to local searches, it suggests. The most searched Kenyan items
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| 1 day ago
Nadal confessed to being in serious need of a recharge after failing to win so much as a set in three matches at the A.T.P...But the once-relentless Majorcan will presumably find a way to run on empty for one more long weekend. At the conclusion of