Women’s singles top seed Maria Sharapova crashed out of Wimbledon yesterday after being stunned by big-hitting German Sabine Lisicki.

Austrian Tamira Paszek was the first woman to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon today as she claimed an impressive win over Roberta Vinci.

One of Italy’s most wanted fugitive mobsters was captured by police today.

A powerful mobster from the Camorra crime syndicate in southern Italy has been arrested, Italian police said today.