Bangladesh pull off a shock win in the World Cup, inflicting a second defeat on England that leaves their progress to the quarter-finals in serious doubt.
Sri Lanka complete a commanding 210-run victory over Canada in their World Cup Group A match in Hambantota.
50 years ago, Ruby Bridges made history as the first African-American to attend an all-white elementary school in the American South.
Marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie announces he will race again after reversing his decision to retire from athletics.
Preview followed by live coverage of Thursday's game between Napoli and Liverpool in the Europa League.
Mark Lawrenson's predictions for the opening weekend of the Premier League season
John Hantz is soft spoken, meticulously polite and ferociously ambitious. For his latest plan, he has to be. This multi millionaire, financial tycoon wants to turn destitute Detroit into the world's largest urban farm.
The BBC's Daniel Gallas and Vladimir Hernandez assess the outstanding performances from South American teams in South Africa
America's "beer capital" is undergoing a revival with small craft brewers racing to fill the void left by the sale of Anheuser Bush, the largest national brewer, to Belgian beverage giant InBev.
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A report into a private jet crash in which five people were killed finds a missing rivet may have led to the shutdown of an engine.
The man accused of attempting to bomb New York's Times Square appears in court for the first time since his arrest.
At least 12 people die after a bomb on a bicycle explodes near a police vehicle in the Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan.
As flights slowly begin to take off again in Europe after days of travel chaos, Matt Frei, presenter of BBC World News America, reflects on the beauty and pain of travel - both by air and by ground.
Some 90% of gay men in the Asia-Pacific region lose access to HIV/Aids help because of discriminatory laws, a UN-backed report says.
The political fallout from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is already becoming apparent, the BBC's Paul Adams in Louisiana finds.
Firms in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster will present conflicting claims at the first US Senate hearing, US media say.
Actor Michael Douglas tells a US TV show he believes his son's recent prison sentence for drug dealing and possessing heroin is "adequate".
Linda Pressly journeys from Lima to the Peruvian Amazon to ask if a controversial economic theory can improve the lives of slum-dwellers and indigenous Amazonian Indians alike.
Linda Pressly journeys from Lima to the Peruvian Amazon to ask if a controversial economic theory can improve the lives of slum-dwellers and indigenous Amazonian Indians alike.
