The United States Women's soccer jersey has become the number one best-selling soccer jersey, men's or women's, ever sold on Nike.com in a single season.

Stocks plummeted in the United States today as heightened fears of another hurricane hitting the Gulf Coast sent oil prices racing past 67dollars a barrel and investors grew anxious about the Federal Reserve’s upcoming interest-rate meeting.

China has banned a Nike television commercial showing US basketball star LeBron James in a battle with an animated cartoon kung fu master, saying the ad insults Chinese national dignity.