England to tour West Indies in February

England and the West Indies will play three Twenty20 matches and three One-Day Internationals in the Caribbean early next year, the West Indies Cricket Board announced. The three One-Day Internationals will be played at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Grounds in Antigua while Kensington Oval in Barbados will host the T20 games, the WICB said Saturday, reports CMC. The Twenty20 matches will be ...

Kirani James outpaces rivals to win in Shanghai

World and Olympic champion Kirani James powered to victory against his main rivals from London 2012 Olympics in the 400 metres at Shanghai's Diamond League meet. The Grenadian quarter miler raced ahead on the final bend to edge 2008 Olympic champion, the USA's Lashawn Merritt, into second place Saturday, reports Xinhua. Luguelin Santos of the Dominican Republic, the silver medallist from last ...

Asteroid 9 times larger than Queen Elizabeth 2 ship to sail past Earth on May 31

Asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail past Earth on May 31, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. While QE2 is not of much interest to those astronomers and scientists on the lookout for hazardous asteroids, it is of interest to those who dabble in radar astronomy and have a 230-foot (70-meter) - or larger-radar ...

Sutton school celebrates glowing report

Students hard at work A report into Homefield School in Sutton has described pupils as "confident, highly motivated, enthusiastic, with high self-esteem, excellent personal development and maturity." The school recevied the report from the independent schools' inspectorate (isi), which said good teaching was at the heart of the school's success. Little ones also ...

Eurosceptics running protection racket in Tory party says Lord Mandelson

Lord Mandelson, a former Northern Ireland secretary, appeared to liken the Eurosceptics to the provisional wing of the Irish republican movement. Photograph: Rex ...