The convicted serial rapist and heir to the Max Factor cosmetics empire has been ordered to pay m to a woman he drugged with a potent anaesthetic and assaulted, compounding the horror by videotaping the attack.
Israel will hand control of two West Bank cities to the Palestinian Authority today after a flurry of negotiations and American pressure on both sides to prevent the collapse of the six week-old ceasefire.
Darrel Bristow-Bovey appears to have survived the sticky fingers scandal but evidently he is in interesting company, Hilary Prendini Toffoli points out.
The gloves are off in the scrap between Athletics South Africa (ASA) and the National Olympic Committee over athletics funding. ASA CEO Banele Sindani announced the governing bodies’ decision to suspend any future correspondence at executive level.
Eleven-year-old Sufian Abd al-Ghani was detained for 24 days in a US military prison in Iraq. However, his case is not the worst in the months since the US occupied Iraq. Several children have been shot dead and many are still missing, overlooked by bureaucracy.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former Mr Universe and front-runner for the job of California governor, has added some financial muscle to his campaign by hiring the billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
Her skull fractured, five-week-old Elizabeth Nunes is a tiny victim of crime in a city where fears of rising gang violence in its poorer suburban fringes belies the beautiful postcard image of its harbourside heart.
England seam quartet, with the help of a deteriorating Trent Bridge pitch, bowled Michael Vaughan’s team close to a series-leveling win in the third cricket test on Sunday.
Ryan Newman had enough fuel and Kurt Busch didn’t. Newman grabbed his series-leading fifth victory of the year, stretching his final tank of gas 52 laps at the Michigan International Speedway to win the GFS Marketplace 400 on Sunday.
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink struck a blow for the Stamford Bridge old boys when he pounced for a late winner, which got Chelsea’s Russian revolution under new billionaire owner Roman Abramovich off to a flying start against Liverpool on Sunday.