A survey found 52 percent of people did not believe London could win the bid for the 2012 Olympics, versus 39 percent who thought it would.
The U.S. Stars and Stripes fluttered feebly for Jessica Pegula at Wimbledon on Thursday as the fifth seed was ousted in the second round by China's Wang Xinyu
Simon Nathan, who helped Britain's athletics team clinch four golds medals at the London Olympics, has been named Australia's high performance director of athletics.
Britain's six-time Olympic track cycling champion Chris Hoy revealed he has "two to four years" to live after he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer.
Red Bull's Verstappen, who had been on pole at Zandvoort every year since the circuit returned in 2021 and has yet to be beaten there, will still line up alongside the Briton on the front row.
The UK has warned its citizens travelling abroad that they could be targeted by terrorists seeking revenge for British air strikes against Islamic State militants in the Middle East.
The celebrities who graced the men's and women's singles finals at Arthur Ashe Stadium on the weekend.
The Briton had said he woke up unwell on the day of the race, although he declined to use that as an excuse. Peaty also struggled to speak after the race with a hoarse throat.
An Indian-origin shopkeeper in the United Kingdom who could face murder charge for killing his assailant in self-defence should be rewarded for bravery and not prosecuted, many Britons feel.
Americans Mario R Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Briton Martin J Evans won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday.
McLaren's Lando Norris dominated the Singapore Grand Prix from start to finish on Sunday to take another chunk out of Max Verstappen's Formula One championship lead.
Leclerc was 11 seconds clear with seven laps to go and 8.3 ahead with five remaining as the massed ranks of 'tifosi' willed him on.
A Chinese forensic scientist has cast doubt on the official version of the death of a Briton, which triggered a huge political scandal, ending the career of senior Communist Party leader Bo Xilai, whose wife has been convicted of poisoning the UK businessman.
The converts and British Muslims are being signed up by extremists at universities and religious groups, according to a warning issued by officials from MI5 and the Home and Foreign Offices on Sunday.
India's boxing star Vijender Singh will be gunning for his third professional title when he takes on Briton Lee Markham for the Commonwealth Super Middleweight belt in London, on July 13.
Images from the US Open men's singles quarter-finals at Flushing Meadows, New York, on Wednesday.
Canada powered into the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup for the third straight year with a victory over Britain on Sunday.
Briton Andy Murray will make his comeback from injury at this month's Geneva Open after the former world number one was handed a wildcard by the organisers of the French Open tune-up event on Wednesday.
'I am very happy that you have finally found someone with whom you really feel that you feel very comfortable and secure...I am 100% behind you dad and wish you all the best and congratulations.'
'Psycho Stapleton', a Briton who admitted shooting Indian student Anuj Bidve on December 26 last laughed and ran away after the incident, the Manchester Crown Court was told on the first day of his trial on Monday.
Fresh off winning the Stuttgart Open by beating former world number six Matteo Berrettini, Draper put on a near flawless display
Five pilot schemes, being rolled out across the UK, could slap up to 1,000 pound a year on households that fails to recycle enough, the Daily Express tabloid said on Thursday. The report said ministers have signalled that the pilot schemes will 'help us with our decision about roll-out' and allow local authorities to 'set up their own schemes in due course.' The schemes are expected to offer a council tax rebate to families that recycle more.
There're 1.65 million people who are unemployed, with a further 7.9 million defined as 'economically inactive', the official figures revealed.
Britons David Millar and Bradley Wiggins will be the riders to watch when the Tour de France starts with a 7.9-km prologue in London.
Images from the Weltklasse Diamond League athletics meeting at the Letzigrund Stadium, in Zurich, on Thursday.
Murray was made to fight for two hours and 52 minute
Wins deciding set shootout after premature celebration. The Briton, who overcame dual Grand Slam semi-finalist Ekaterina Makarova, thought she had won the first round match after reaching seven points in the third set tiebreak and celebrated accordingly.
Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja emerged as the 66th richest in the world, as part of an Oxfam study released at the WEF.
IMAGES from Day 4 of the Wimbledon Championships, at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, on Thursday.
Ahmed Elgendy took Egypt's first gold medal of the Paris Olympics when he won the men's Modern Pentathlon with a world record 1,555 points, despite slowing at the end, in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles on Saturday.
According to the Daily Mail, more than 1,000 people a day who had legitimately sought unsecured loans with banks and finance companies were being 'cold called' from call centers in New Delhi, with 100 of them daily being duped into signing-up and paying a 'processing fee' to secure non-existent cash.
Jannik Sinner will hope to block out a rocking home crowd on Sunday when he faces Taylor Fritz in the US Open final at Flushing Meadows, where the 12th seed will be bidding to become the first American man in 21 years to win a Grand Slam singles title.
The trial of 'Psycho Stapleton', a Briton accused of the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve on December 26 in Salford, begins in the Manchester Crown Court on Monday. The trial of Kiaran Stapleton, 21, is expected to last 12 days.
American Cole Hocker delivered one of the all-time Olympic shocks when he won the 1,500 metres gold
Sift shot 452.9 and missed silver by an agonising 0.1 to China's Han Jiayu, the reigning air rifle women's world champion.
'Competing for Britain has been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I'm extremely proud to get to do it one final time'
Seven-times World champion Lewis Hamilton, Formula One's most successful driver of all time, will race for Ferrari from 2025.
Lando Norris capitalised on a bit of good fortune to win the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday
