Cesc Fabregas comes off the bench to score his first Barcelona goal as the European Champions beat nine-man Porto to win the Uefa Super Cup in Monaco.

Hendre Fourie is put on standby to start for England against Ireland five days after being omitted from Martin Johnson's World Cup squad.

Hosts Germany dump defending champions England out of EuroHockey 2011 in a rain-delayed men's semi-final.

Wife of the Commons Speaker Sally Bercow, who has been criticised for joining Celebrity Big Brother, is the first contestant to be voted off the reality TV show.

Britain's strongest athletics team in a generation must cope with an unfamiliar sense of expectation ahead of nine days of World Championships action in South Korea.

Telecoms giant BT is to raise call charges for residential customers by up to 5% on 3 December - the second increase this year.

A suspect package on a Kent railway line which led to a major police alert was an elaborate hoax, officers say.

Giving vitamin A supplements to children under the age of five who live in developing countries could save 600,000 lives a year, researchers claim.