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Police fought to restore order last night after thousands of members of China’s Muslim Uighur minority rampaged through city streets, burning vehicles and blocking traffic. At ...

(Reuters) - Rioting erupted in China's restive far west Xinjiang region on Sunday, killing three people when locals burnt vehicles and blocked traffic in the regional capital Urumqi, the state news agency reported.

In retrospect, all the signs were there. But six months ago, back in July 2009, no one actually guessed that Peter Mandelson was about to become Labours seventh prime minister ...

Great Britain sculler Alan Campbell could not repeat his Henley heroics of Saturday, suffering a three-length defeat by New Zealands Mahe Drysdale. Campbell, clearly struggling ...

Sebastian Coe, the London 2012 chairman, insists the Olympic Stadium should be considered as a possible World Cup venue even though it will have a running track.

This Saturday 4th July not only marks the beginning of National Transplant Week, but is also Team UK's last training meet before they jet off to the World Transplant Games in Australia, helping to raise awareness of the ongoing need for organ donors and encourage people to sign up to the Organ Donor register.

North Down Borough Council has denied claims that a multi-million pound Olympic size swimming pool may not be ready for the London games in 2012 saying the major project was “on track”. Related Stories Fireman plays first shot at new Faldo-designed Fermanagh course

North Down Borough Council has denied claims that a multi-million pound Olympic size swimming pool may not be ready for the London games in 2012 saying the major project was “on track”. Related Stories Paedophile who fled to Mexico back in jail Brown calls for clarity on future of staff in Iran Unionist furious over Castlereagh break-in decision News in brief: 1,946 caught driving on drink or ...

Although he had a long run as a world boxing champion, holding titles at three of the lighter weights over the period 1975-82, Alexis Arguello is perhaps best known in Britain for ...

Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu finished only sixth in her 400 metres race at the Bislett Games in Oslo.

Morrison has started work on the White Water Canoe Centre in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire for the London 2012 Games.

An Olympic sized swimming pool planned for Bangor may not be ready for the 2012 games in London, it is claimed.

The global financial crisis will in no way prevent London from hosting exactly the Olympic spectacle it promised in more affluent times, London's Games chief Sebastian Coe told Reuters on Thursday.

Around 150 local companies have been briefed by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) on the new business opportunities developing from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Related Stories Belfast tourism boosted by euro bonanza Green technology ‘could help create 250,000 jobs’ Biochips and wood chips are top award winners Bankers warned over risk taking Mortgage debts down by £8bn as ...

The revelation that at least 85 sharia courts currently operate in this country challenges the overriding principle of British justice - that everyone regardless of sex, race ...

In the run-up to next months Olympic Games in Beijing, little has been heard of human rights and civil liberties in China. Yet seven years ago, when the Games were awarded to ...

Forces face having to reduce numbers of front line staff to meet efficiency savings targets at a time when crime levels are expected to rise amid the recession, senior officers ...

Britains oldest Olympian Godfrey Rampling, who won medals at the 1932 and 1936 Games in Los Angeles and Berlin, has died at the age of 100. Mr Rampling celebrated his 100th ...

BRITAINS oldest Olympian had died at his care home in Bushey a month after celebrating his 100th birthday. Godfrey Rampling, the last surviving gold medalist from the 1936 Berlin ...

Britains oldest Olympian, Godfrey Rampling, who won gold in the 1936 Games, has died at the age of 100.

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London 2012 officials are considering moving the badminton event to Wembley to save money, BBC London learns.

Australian Doug Frost is named head coach of the new British Swimming Intensive Training Centre in Stirling.

Boris Johnson says the London 2012 Olympics will deliver a better spectator experience than Beijing for half the money.

Triple gold medallist Chris Hoy helps unveil designs for London's 2012 Olympic cycling facilities.

London 2012 chiefs tell BBC Sport they are not seriously considering a scheme to flatten the Olympic Stadium after the Games.

Most Britons do not think the government is capable of successfully managing the 2012 Olympics, a survey suggests.

Plans for a four-year programme of cultural events ahead of the 2012 Olympics are announced in London.

Uefa's David Taylor says a GB team at the Olympics would endanger British football's separate identities.

Public enthusiasm for attending the 2012 London Olympic Games has risen almost 30% following the Beijing Games, a survey for the BBC suggests.

Britain could revise its medals target for London 2012 following the team's success at the Beijing Olympics.