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As Vince Cable's week-long visit to Brazil concluded on Friday, the Government's intentions towards Latin America's economic giant could not be clearer.

Delhi's chaotic preparations for next month's Commonwealth Games proved India was not capable of hosting major international events, Games ambassador Saina Nehwal said on Saturday, before retracting the statement hours later.

Turkmenistan said Saturday that it planned to invest an initial $1.9 billion (1.2 billion pounds) to build a new "Olympic City" sports facility although the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic has not announced any plans to bid for the games.

The Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial) is the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa , and one of the smallest nations on the continent. In the late-1990s, American companies helped discover ...

Olympic marathon swimmer Cassie Patten here leads a pack of amateur triathletes during a swim in the Serpentine, Hyde Park, in preparation for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Priestley won the 60-metres hurdles at the UK Championships this year. Under the rules of the British Olympic Association, he is now ineligible to take part in the London Olympics in 2012 and all future Games.

China's Olympic swimming champion Liu Zige will skip November's Asian Games to concentrate on next year's World Championships.

China's Olympic swimming champion Liu Zige will skip November's Asian Games to concentrate on next year's world championships, Chinese swimming officials said.

Japan's multiple Olympic gold medallist Kosuke Kitajima will head his country's Asian Games swimming team at the November event, Japanese officials said on Friday.

A FOUR-DAY mini Olympic Games giving young people the experience of a major sporting tournament is under way in the North-East.

Asian Games organisers are poised to switch the quadrennial event from 2018 to 2019 to avoid clashing with the Commonwealth Games in the future.

Olympic athlete David Moorcroft will visit Newcastle-under-Lyme this month to launch the construction of the borough's Health and Wellbeing Centre.

LONDON— Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair credits Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi with helping London secure the 2012 Olympics. Blair also says in his new autobiography that he was dubious about ...