Serena Williams will look to take another step on the road to a calendar grand slam tonight when she faces Roberta Vinci in the US Open semi-finals tonight.

’Straight Outta Compton’, detailing the rise of the world’s most notorious rap group, N.W.A, is taking the box office by storm. Founding member Ice Cube and his son O’Shea Jackson jr, who stars in the film gives Susan Griffin the low down.

A surprise cameo on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly was a reminder that, contrary to widespread assumptions, Dr Dre had not retired from hip-hop.

MUSIC NEWS: You may have seen poor Florence Welch sitting on a stool for her performance with The Machine on Later With Jools on Tuesday (longer version on BBC Two tonight). Apparently she broke her foot while leaping off the stage at the Coachella festival in the US. 

Ireland international striker Kevin Doyle was back at Wolves Compton training ground yesterday after a whistle stop trip to America as he ponders the next move in his career.

Versatile veteran Glenquest is set to tackle the Eider Chase in Newcastle on February 21 following his emphatic win in the Bet With The Tote Handicap Hurdle in Down Royal yesterday.

Death Row Records founder Suge Knight has been taken to a hospital complaining of chest pains after he appeared in court in a murder case.

Serena Williams said that she never imagined she would one day rank alongside tennis icons Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert.

A woman who says she was abducted a decade ago by a man who forced her to marry him and fathered her child has said she is now happy and feels blessed to be back with her family.

A US woman who was 15 when she disappeared from her home 10 years ago has been reunited with her family.

A woman who was 15 when she disappeared from her California home 10 years ago has contacted police saying she was held against her will for years.

The Limerick duo’s act is peppered with Irish references. Will British audiences get them, asks Dave Kenny

Steve Bruce remains a major contender to become the next Wolves manager even though other candidates will be interviewed during the next 48 hours, it is understood.

Wolves are hopeful defender Sebastien Bassong will be fit for their next match at his former club Newcastle on February 25.

Wolves have completed the signing of Birmingham central defender Roger Johnson in a £7m deal today.

SERENA WILLIAMS heads into her sixth Wimbledon final today as one of the hottest favourites on record, but insists she would much rather be facing the imposing figure of her sister Venus on the other side of the net.

SERENA WILLIAMS believes she will have “nothing to lose” when she takes on sister Venus in today’s Wimbledon final.

Serena Williams believes she will have “nothing to lose” when she takes on sister Venus in tomorrow’s Wimbledon final.

AUSTRALIAN OPEN champion Serena Williams claimed the memory of her oldest sister inspired her to success over hot favourite Maria Sharapova in Saturday’s final.

Australian Open champion Serena Williams claimed the memory of her oldest sister inspired her to success over hot favourite Maria Sharapova in the final at Melbourne Park.

A gang member pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter over the 2003 shooting death of the half-sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.

The Game is set to match his rap rival 50 Cent on the big screen after signing on to appear in three upcoming movies.

Mick Easterby’s Compton Plume has the credentials to supplement a recent course and distance victory with another success in the Nidd Classified Stakes at Catterick tomorrow.

Rap superstar Snoop Dogg is taking rap rival The Game on tour with him, in a bid to ease gang tension in Los Angeles.

A suicidal man parked his off-road vehicle on a California railway line, setting off a crash between two commuter trains that killed at least 11 people in America’s worst train accident in nearly six years.

A judge declared a mistrial in the case of one of two men charged with the murder of the half-sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.

Former England star Paul Gascoigne is training with Premiership strugglers Wolves.

A man with ties to a street gang was charged with murdering the sister of tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams.

POLICE investigating the murder of Venus and Serena Williams’ older sister focused yesterday on the possibility that a gang feud or a drug dispute might have led to the death of the 31-year-old mother of three.

Police investigating the murder of Venus and Serena Williams’ older sister focused today on the possibility that a gang feud or a drug dispute might have led to the death of the 31-year-old mother of three.

A 24-YEAR-OLD MAN has been arrested following the shooting dead of the older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.

A man was charged with murder tonight after the oldest sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams was gunned down on a Los Angeles Street.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested in the hunt for the killer of the sister of tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams.

Venus and Serena Williams were today in mourning after their elder sister was shot dead in the Los Angeles borough of Compton over the weekend.

An older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams was shot dead early today following a dispute in suburban Los Angeles, authorities said.

A drive-by shooting in Los Angeles killed a three-year-old boy riding his bicycle in front of his driveway, and wounded his mother and three others.

Tupac Shakur was killed by a gang member with a pistol provided the Notorious BIG, a newspaper investigation claims.