Britain’s Mo Farah proved he was still the man to beat heading into the World Championships with a 5,000 metres win over a high-class field at the Birmingham Diamond League meeting in central England

Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams cruised effortlessly into the Wimbledon fourth round on Saturday as the first week’s shockwaves left just eight of the top 20 seeds still standing.

A bitter feud within Nelson Mandela’s family over the final resting place of the ailing anti-apartheid hero and his children intensified on Sunday, with his grandson lamenting the dispute has been tak

Andy Murray insists he can cope with the pressure of being a favourite for the Wimbledon title after the world no. 2 swept into the fourth round in emphatic fashion.

Polish and Peruvian archaeologists have discovered a royal burial chamber with 60 mummies and some 1,200 gold, silver and ceramic objects from over 1,000 years ago in Peru.

Nasa scientists said on Friday they were testing a prototype of a robot the US space agency hopes to send to Mars in 2020 in Chile’s Atacama desert. Nasa hopes to use this kind of rover to explore life-friendly sites found by Curiosity, the rover already searching for signs of life on Mars. It has been there since last August.

Exactly one week after clinching the Champions Trophy in a dramatic, rain-affected finale in Birmingham, undisputed world one-day champions India take on a confident West Indies team on Sunday at Sabina Park in the second match of the tri-nation series.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has already declared this year's Confederations Cup, hors d'oeuvre for the World Cup in 12 months time, the best ever.

Eight soldiers were killed by roadside bomb in the restive Thai south early this morning, an army spokesman said.

Shane Watson is fired up by the prospect of opening for Australia in the upcoming Ashes series in England, the all-rounder said on Thursday.