Hideki Matsui called it "the best moment of my life" and Alex Rodriguez savoured a joyous end to a year which began badly for him as the New York Yankees won the World Series... more
Brett Favre savoured a triumphant but frosty homecoming, throwing four touchdowns as the Minnesota Vikings beat the Green Bay Packers 38-26 in the NFL... more
Pitcher A.J. Burnett was the hero for the New York Yankees on his World Series debut as he guided them to a 3-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies last night.... more
The Los Angeles Angels withstood a late fightback by the New York Yankees to post a 7-6 triumph in game five and keep alive the best-of-seven American League Championship Series... more
Mobile phone users are accustomed to rogue emails and text messages, claiming to be from their phone company, but actually containing nasty software from a nefarious third party. What they’re not so used to is getting nasty stuff from the phone company itself.. ... more
Have credit-crunched stock markets reached the bottom and started heading up? Maybe, but it could be a long time before the losses sustained since last October are recouped. ... more
The furore over the £650,000 annual pension package drawn by Sir Fred Goodwin, former boss of RBS, would be perfectly justified at any time after the bank's taxpayer bailout... more
Nicollette Sheridan may have been keeping her eye on the ball as she opened an LA Dodgers game yesterday, but everyone else's eyes were on her wobbly arms.... more
A breathless eroticism pounds through Montemezzi's L'Amore dei tre Re as violently and noisily as a stampede of horses over cobbles, says Fiona Maddocks.... more
The Royal Opera House's free, open-air screenings of ballet and opera have become essential events. This summer there are a trio of classics to choose from.... more
Stockholm singer Robin Carlsson could teach Britney Spears a thing or two about how to emerge gracefully from a teenage pop career, says David Smyth.... more
There has been much debate about whether Madam Butterfly is racist or not but no one watching this production at the Royal Albert Hall could mistake where Puccini's sympathies lay. ... more
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