For Mark English the 800m is like a jigsaw, and it’s one he’s been trying to piece together for several years, often with varying results.

The increasingly violent assaults by Israeli Arabs on Israeli Jews has been portrayed in the global media as a consequence of Muslim fears that Israel plans to sieze Al-Haram al-Sharif (more commonly known as Temple Mount or the Dome of the Rock) the third holiest site of Islamic pilgramidge.

A BRITISH man yesterday claimed a new world record for keeping a football in the air, after sailing past the previous record of 19 hours and 30 minutes in London.

A TEXAN woman who ran down her cheating husband with a Mercedes turned her $73,000 vehicle into “a 4,000lb murder weapon”, prosecutors said.