A woman facing child abduction proceedings has brought a High Court challenge against the Legal Aid Board's refusal to pay her legal costs of defending the action.

Sebastian Vettel made it nine poles from 12 grands prix this season at the end of a dramatic and controversial qualifying session ahead of tomorrow’s Belgian Grand Prix.

A 27-year-old man from the North has drowned after going swimming in a remote area of Australia.

Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen laid down a marker to current world champion Fernando Alonso and his McLaren team after dominating the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

AFTER David Howell’s admirable 20 under par, three-shot victory over Tiger Woods in Shanghai on Sunday, it is only reasonable that he and Luke Donald should be the bookmakers’ favourites for the World Cup of Golf at the Victoria Course at Vilamoura on Portugal’s Algarve on Thursday.

A fire erupted today in a transformer room that feeds electricity to a main water plant near Baghdad, shutting it down completely and leaving millions of residents in the Iraqi capital without water.

SHOW jumping was never this interesting ... and even some of the sport’s aficionados would agree with this sentiment.

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