Britain's former world champion Ricky Hatton says his comeback fight in November will not be against Paulie Malignaggi.

Dani Pedrosa edges Jorge Lorenzo by just 0.018 seconds in qualifying to take pole position for the San Marino Grand Prix.

Part of a hospital's water system is found to contain legionella, the bacteria which can cause the potentially fatal Legionnaires' disease.

Prince Harry was at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan at the time of a Taliban attack in which two American marines were killed, Nato reveals.

The man expected to be China's next leader, Xi Jinping, appears in public after a two-week absence that fuelled speculation about his health.

The new culture secretary writes to broadcasters urging them not to cut their coverage of women's sport now London 2012 is over.

An Italian weekly magazine says it plans to publish photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless in a special issue next week.

New Syrian peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi holds his first meeting with President Bashar al-Assad, on what he has described as a "nearly impossible" mission.