guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Trainer says Foxhunters winner has improved for comeback• State Of Play, 2006 victor, also lines up for Welsh handlerSome trainers who fancy their horses to run well in big races do not breathe a word to anyone. Evan Willia (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Batsman downplays return to city of his birth• I am happy in Birmingham, says TrottIt was a little over 90F when Jonathan Trott appeared beside the cobalt blue of his hotel poolside in his home town of Cape Town today. But (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
The improvement of Aaron Lennon's crossing, Michael Essien's advanced role and Sunderland's discipline all dealt with1. Tottenham Hotspur have Aaron Lennon to thankJermain Defoe has deservedly hogged the headlines after scori (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
A masterful display at Freiburg confirmed Mesut Özil's status as the best player in the league, a one-man source of creativityTwenty years ago, German football hailed Olaf Thon as "the last street footballer". Mehmet Scholl, (Read More)
NY Post: Page Six:
Sean "Diddy" Combs (pictured) may have blown a fortune on his lavish 40th birthday -- but he got some nice gifts in return. TV chef Rachael Ray, who missed the party, sent him a diamond cuff. Baldwin Spencer, prime minister o (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• World champion sprinters celebrate second IAAF honours • Bolt looks forward to Diamond League v Gay and PowellThe Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and United States 400 metres runner Sanya Richards have won their second IAAF Wo (Read More)
The Guardian:
Click auto-refresh (above the photo) for all the latest action. Email your musings to mikey.stafford@guardian.co.uk. You can keep up with all today's other fixtures with our live scores centreKick-off is at 4pm. Mikey will be (Read More)
The Guardian:
THEY DIDN'T want Blair, because he was too famous. They derided Van Rompuy, because he wasn't. On two front pages (Guardian and Mail weirdly co-joined) it was a "Great EU stitch-up". They didn't, at the same time, seem to hav (Read More)
The Guardian:
Villagers say visitors to delta are a threat to wildlife and their fishing industryMusic, dancing and smiling platitudes greeted the royal guest in the fishing village of Samochima, northern Botswana. But cutting through the (Read More)
Reuters: Sports News:
MONTE CARLO (Reuters) - Jamaican triple Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt and main sprint rival Tyson Gay have praised the new Diamond League series while declining to say where they would clash in 2010 on the 14-meeting (Read More)
Reuters: Sports News:
MONTE CARLO (Reuters) - Jamaican triple Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt headlines a group of nine athletes contracted to compete in the new Diamond League circuit next year, league organizers and the IAAF announced on S (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Paul Nicholls hails dual Gold Cup winner for battling success• Victor now 11-10 to win King George for fourth time runningIt was not a race for the faint-hearted, but Kauto Star showed once again that he is not afraid to ge (Read More)
The Economist:
Record auction prices for rare coloured diamonds“If you have money to invest, there is no safer haven than something rare,” says Laurence Graff, the London-born “King of Diamonds”. If this is sales talk, he is his own best cu (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
The Guidelines: random notes from pop cultureThere are copious strings to 50 Cent's platinum bow. As well as being a rapper, self-help guru and inspiration to many, he's an actor and videogame voiceover artiste. Recently adde (Read More)
Reuters: Sports News:
MONTE CARLO (Reuters) - A hammer throw challenge event will be introduced next year to provide worldwide competition for athletes whose specialty is not part of the new Diamond League.
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Wall Street Journal:
Blue Nile CEO Diane Irvine answered Digits readers’ questions in the fourth installment of The Wall Street Journal’s Talking Tech interviews.Ms. Irvine fielded questions about the diamond industry, how the economy is affectin (Read More)