John Higgins suffered a shock 6-3 defeat against home favourite Cao Yupeng in the first round of the International Championship in Chengdu, China today.

Stephen Maguire held off Joe Perry to reach the quarter-finals of the Betfred.com World Championship this morning.

Mark Allen tonight apologised for his outburst against Cao Yupeng and Chinese players as a whole

Steve Davis today challenged Mark Allen's claim that Chinese snooker players are lacking in sporting integrity.

FROM the home to the workplace to the altar the national financial crisis is affecting every facet of life and infertility is no exception.

The Irish cyclists posted two national records in Beijing’s Laoshan Veldrome on the opening day at the 13th Paralympic Games.

CHINA and the US agreed on measures yesterday to boost defence co-operation, including setting up a hotline, but clear differences remained over Beijing’s military build-up.

China today executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog who had become a symbol of the country’s wide-ranging problems on product safety.

A woman in southwestern China has died from bird flu, bringing the country’s human death toll from the disease to seven, the official Xinhua News Agency said today.

A bird-flu outbreak has killed 545 chickens and ducks in a village in central China in the country’s third case of the disease in two weeks, the government announced today.

Alan King is aware of the task facing his four-year-old Penzance as he puts his unbeaten record on the line in tomorrow’s JCB Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham.