Nicky Henderson has pinpointed Silviniaco Conti and Last Instalment as dangers to Bobs Worth when his star bids to retain his Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup crown next month.

Bookmakers believe My Tent Or Yours and The New One could even be sent off joint-favourites with the leading lights of the new generation proving hard to separate in Kempton’s williamhill.com Christmas Hurdle on Thursday.

A former actress has pleaded guilty to sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, under a deal that her lawyer has said would cap prison time at 18 years.

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Asia-Pacific nations including China, the US and Japan promised measures to boost growth yesterday and rejected limits on food exports to try to revive the flagging global economy.

Frankie Dettori claimed his second Royal Ascot winner of the week when Tha’ir struck in the Chesham Stakes.

Mining companies have been given a lift, after the Australian government backed down on slapping a 40% super-tax on the sector.

AN international effort to truly limit whale hunting collapsed yesterday, leaving Japan, Norway and Iceland free to keep killing hundreds of mammals a year, even raiding a marine sanctuary in Antarctic waters unchecked.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said the country will extend its troop commitment to Afghanistan for another year and then begin posting civilian development specialists to the war-torn nation.

An anti-whaling activist from New Zealand is in custody on a Japanese vessel and will be taken to Japan to face charges after secretly boarding the ship as part of a protest, officials said today.

A school in the UK has angered parents by banning tight-fitting trousers which are “too sexy” for the classroom.

THIERRY DUSAUTOIR believes France team-mate Mathieu Bastareaud has been “sufficiently punished” for lying about being mugged during Les Bleus’ summer tour of the southern hemisphere.

FRANCE centre Mathieu Bastareaud can expect a lengthy ban from representing France after he caused uproar with lies that he’d been mugged while touring with the national team in New Zealand earlier this year.

Jack Tweed’s mother has said he will never find anyone quite like Jade Goody again.

Lisa Kudrow would love to star in a big-screen version of hit TV show 'Friends' - but only if producers stay true to the original.

Nigel Twiston-Davies admits Knowhere faces a difficult task when he lines up under a welter burden in the Hennessy Gold Cup on Saturday.

New Zealand Prime Minister-elect John Key said Monday he had won enough support to form a new government by mid-November, after meetings with two small parties.

Fathers who believe they rule their roost can now discover if they are descended from a notorious Irish warlord, it emerged today.

Northern Ireland can serve as a beacon of hope to the rest of the world wishing to learn the lessons of its peace process, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown claimed tonight.

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HOLLYWOOD star George Clooney has been nominated for the Tipperary Peace Prize for his work on Darfur, it emerged today.

New Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today urged America to follow his country’s climate change lead and agree to limit its greenhouse gas emissions.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer cruised to landslide victories in New York state’s Democratic primary day, turning back long-shot challengers on a night that produced a string of lopsided state-wide contests.

Five years after terrorists wrought death from clear skies, the US began its observation of a solemn anniversary today, with plans for silent reflection and fresh mourning for the nearly 3,000 lives lost on September 11, 2001.

A coalition of conservation-minded nations have managed to thwart Japan’s attempt to form a pro-whaling majority on the International Whaling Commission and reverse the moratorium on commercial hunting that went into effect two decades ago.

Soviet Song has been given the go-ahead to make her seasonal reappearance in the Juddmonte Lockinge Stakes at Newbury on Saturday.

Scrum-half Peter Stringer is a doubt for Ireland's test match against Australia next weekend after picking up a calf injury against the All-Blacks on Saturday.

Seb Sanders showed great powers of improvisation today when he overcame a slipped saddle to pilot Extreme Beauty to victory at Yarmouth.

Jennifer Lopez has decided to remain silent about her marriage to salsa star Marc Anthony, because she's fed up seeing her exploits blown out of proportion in the press.

New Seeker could bid to follow up his Royal Ascot win back at the Berkshire track next month.

An explosion at the oil storage facility at the edge of New York’s Staten Island has killed one worker and sent black smoke and flames hundreds of feet into the air.

France have left out Agen fly-half Francos Gelez from ther side to face Canada at the Stade de France, Paris on Saturday

America was on a major terror alert tonight as it prepared to commemorate the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

A man in custody following a recent murder Sydney is also being investigated over the disappearance of English backpacker Peter Falconio.

Senegal’s World Cup ambitions hinge on the performances of a reformed wildman known as ‘the serial killer’.

The New York district where the jet came down was already mourning dozens of victims of the September 11 terror attacks.

The antibiotic Cipro has gone from relative obscurity to part of America’s new vocabulary in less than two weeks.