“I thought I had no chance jumping the last, but three strides later I was starting to smell the money.”

An 18-month-old girl who fell to her death from the 11th story of a cruise ship in Puerto Rico plunged from a window left open in a children's play area, the family's lawyer has said.

Discovering new species and protecting them is all in a day’s work for Professor Louise Allcock, as she explores one of the planet’s last great frontiers, writes Lorna Siggins.

Six Chinese social media accounts have been closed down after advocating support for a woman who accused JD.com founder Richard Liu of rape.

AP McCoy shares his thoughts on the psychology of success.

Declan Lavery has had his 10-day riding ban quashed following an appeal heard by an independent disciplinary panel at the headquarters of the British Horseracing Authority on Thursday.

Provided it gets the go-ahead, day two of Cheltenham will see two three-time heroes go in search of a fourth Festival success and it’ll rank as a massive surprise if Altior and Tiger Roll fail to oblige.

Hey, remember in the old days when the catastrophists were warning that VAR would be the Y2K of football, not just ruining the game as a spectacle but worse — far, far worse — doing away with all those ‘talking points’ so beloved of pundits, whether in a studio or on a bar stool?

These shipments are rarely just about saving lives, writes Morten Wendelbo.

Look at the location data that Google has collected about you, and you’ll see yourself in a whole new way, writes NYT's John Herrman

Young quarterbacks have always had a tough time winning in Gillette Stadium during the Bill Belichick and Tom Brady era.

JP McManus has set out his formula for how to operate a five-star hotel using the winning team culture centred around sports.

A newborn girl miraculously survived after being buried alive for seven hours, Brazilian police said.

Andrew Thornton’s retirement at Uttoxeter today will signal the end of an era in weighing rooms up and down Britain.

A former US police officer suspected of being a serial killer tied to dozens of killings and sexual assaults in the 1970s and 1980s has been charged with murder, California authorities said.

Rebels have started to evacuate three towns in the eastern Qalamoun region in the Damascus countryside, according to Syrian state media.

A homeless man has been charged with murder following an attack on a California father who was stabbed in the neck as his five-year-old daughter sat in his lap in a crowded beachside restaurant.

A marine helicopter has crashed during a southern California training mission and authorities believe all four crew members were killed.

Claims that a teacher fed a sick puppy to a snapping turtle in front of several students after school are being investigated by the Idaho attorney general's office.

The head of the Vatican's communications department has resigned over a scandal about a letter from the retired pope that he mischaracterised in public and then had digitally manipulated in a photograph sent to the media.

Aides included a section in Mr Trump's briefing materials for the Tuesday morning call stating: "DO NOT CONGRATULATE," a senior administration official has said.

Kosovo's opposition has used tear gas to disrupt a parliament vote on a border demarcation deal with Montenegro.

African leaders have signed what is being called the largest free trade agreement since the creation of the World Trade Organisation.

Spanish prosecutors are seeking a five-year prison sentence for former Real Madrid and Liverpool footballer Xabi Alonso for alleged tax fraud.

At least 29 people were killed and another 52 were wounded in the attack.

Boko Haram extremists have returned most of the 110 girls abducted from their Nigeria boarding school a month ago with an ominous warning, witnesses said.

After the Passchendaele that was my Wednesday, a change of tack is called for, writes Enda McEvoy. Tanks. Poison gas. Creeping barrages. Americans. Whatever it takes.

It’s hard to believe three years have already flown by since AP McCoy powered Uxizandre to an emotional victory in the Ryanair Chase in his final Cheltenham Festival as a jockey.

She has never told her story at length.

President Donald Trump says arming teachers as a deterrent against school shootings is "up to States".

The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire across Syria "without delay" to deliver humanitarian aid to millions and evacuate the critically ill and wounded.

The Trump administration has escalated pressure on North Korea by slapping sanctions on scores of companies and ships accused of illicit trading with the pariah nation.

Executives at Latvian bank Norvik have claimed the nation's central bank chief sought to extort money from their firm for years.

Porn star Stormy Daniels believes she is now free to discuss her alleged sexual encounter with US President Donald Trump, her manager has told The Associated Press.

An Israeli minister has said that by striking key Iranian sites in Syria it sent a clear message that it will not tolerate an Iranian military foothold on its doorstep.

Nine members of a television crew have pleaded not guilty to creating a false public alarm and other counts after one of their devices prompted a fake-bomb alert at one of New York's three major airports.

A domestic dispute spurred the shooting deaths of five people at a Pennsylvania car wash, family sources said.

Police have shown up at a Moscow cinema that screened a satirical film about Soviet leader Josef Stalin in defiance of an official Russian government ban.

American spies were so grateful they sent the Dutch cake and flowers, reports say.

Paris authorities have closed several tunnels, parks, and the bottom floor of the Louvre Museum as the Seine River swells and the city braces for floods.

President Donald Trump has dismissed as "fake news" a New York Times report that he ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last June, but backed down after White House lawyer Don McGahn threatened to resign.

A bus carrying mostly holiday-makers on a ski trip in Turkey has crashed into trees on the side of a road, killing 11 passengers and injuring 44 others, officials say.

The father of a teenager who spent 30 hours trapped in a car wreck in Australian woods said he had followed his intuition by hiring the helicopter that found his seriously injured son.