A Hong Kong court sentenced a billionaire property developer to five years in prison for corruption after a high-profile trial that galvanised public anger over the city’s elite.

Antoine Deneriaz claimed he never lost the belief that he would be crowned Olympic champion after recovering from a torn knee ligament to blaze to men’s downhill glory in Sestriere.

Television’s latest news show is set to deliver the globe’s stark realities with some bare-faced cheek by using naked presenters, it was revealed today.

A SPURT of coughing or sneezing in an hotel lobby or lift may have brought a Toronto grandmother in contact with SARS.

Hundreds of pigs have died of foot and mouth disease in Hong Kong.