China won their first gold medal of their home World Athletics Championships by sweeping a 1-2 finish in the women’s 20k walk in Beijing.

Defending champions Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova both crashed out on a day of shocks at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.

A judge in San Francisco said she intends to strike a ban on male circumcision from the city's November ballot.

The brother of Georgia’s late Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania today dismissed the authorities’ assertion that he died from carbon monoxide poisoning and insisted that Zhvania was assassinated.