Organisers of the 2012 Olympics have finalised their masterplan for the Olympic Park in east London. The only major change to the revised plans will see the volleyball event move out of the main park ...

Fifa president Sepp Blatter said Nigeria's plan to co-host the 2010 World Cup with four African countries will not work. "This idea of Nigeria [to stage the tournament with Cameroon, Benin Republic, ...

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 ...

New York's bid team faces an increasingly tough task to bring the Games to the Big Apple for the first time. The city was ranked down in fourth when the International Olympic Committee examined the ...

Moscow sees its ability to stage every event inside the city borders as the key to its bid for the 2012 Games. Bid leader Valery Shantsev says Moscow would stage the "most compact Games ever" if it ...

There were reservations about bidding after Paris came third behind Beijing and Toronto in the race for 2008 and lost out to Barcelona in 1992. But the French capital is considered to be the favourite ...

Rangers manager Paul Le Guen has left the club by mutual consent. Chairman David Murray said: "Having met with Paul it was clear that in the interests of the club we agreed jointly to him stepping ...

Here is the full text of Tony Blair's speech to the Labour Party conference in Brighton: So here we are facing the possibility unique in our 100 year history, of governing Britain for a third ...

This weekend is the first anniversary of Live 8, when the world's biggest pop stars performed at 10 concerts around the world to raise awareness of poverty in Africa. Madonna famously embraced ...

Ireland is preparing to mark 100 years since Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set - 16 June 1904. But why is Joyce - and Ulysses in particular - continually held up as such a ...

El candidato del Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), Andrés Manuel López Obrador, ratificó su rechazo al recuento ...

During more than two decades as leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein's violent methods and uncompromising stance thrust his country onto the world stage. Saddam Hussein's road to absolute power began in ...