Supermodel Naomi Campbell failed to turn up as scheduled at a runway show in Brazil on Saturday, apparently after her plans were upset by a conviction the day before for assaulting police officers at Heathrow airport in April.
Campbell, 38, had been scheduled to appear on the catwalk at the Sao Paulo Fashion Show for the [...]

Umaga whose side has lost four of their last seven games was sent off last week after he left his coaching box to march onto the field at the end of a five-minute all-in brawl. He carried water bottles so he could address his forward pack.
The farcical scene only got uglier for the All Blacks [...]

An acceleration recently in the yuan’s gains has been squeezing China-based exporters, including multinationals, at a time when they already are wincing at surging costs for labor, energy and materials.”Our costs keep rising and the dollar is falling so we make less money than ever before,” said a quality control manager at EI Global, an [...]

The Swiss and American teams held a meeting at Alinghis Geneva nautical society (SNG) base on Wednesday but were unable to agree on a date for staging the one-off series ordered by a New York judge in November.
BMW Oracle are sticking to their proposal of having the race in October 2008 while we maintain that [...]

By James Kilner
MOSCOW, March 26 (Reuters) - Russia is to exhibit paintings
by the English artist William Turner for the first time since
1975 despite a sharp downturn in relations between London and
Moscow.
Metals billionaire Alisher Usmanov — who maintains close
links with the Kremlin and owns nearly a quarter of the London
soccer club Arsenal — [...]

Old world luxury reminiscent of the tsars opened the citys first fashion week of the year, held in Gostiny Dvor, a revamped 19th century exhibit hall near the Kremlin.
Pale-faced models displayed flowing cream and black dresses from the turn of the century under high-collared fur coats to an audience of hundreds of people, which included [...]

So a frind of mine, who fluked a couple of days at the Hotel Splendido, a really rather sumptuous affair in Portofino on the Italian Riviera, was convinced that herein lay the secret of holidaying for free. His theory was simple: pay for a single blow-out holiday in a selection of Europe’s top hotels, then [...]

While most of the teams player salary budgets were spent in the first round, auction website Cricinfo says Mills will be paid $US150,000 ($NZ177,000) by the Mohali franchise and Taylor will get $US100,000 from Bangalore.
Fellow New Zealanders Peter Fulton, Jamie How, Jeetan Patel, Chris Martin and James Franklin had also been listed for the IPLs [...]

Cricket is played on Juhu, as it is everywhere, but its the setting that is the clue to what is going on with Twenty20.
On Juhus edge are posh beach houses owned by the rich and Bollywood stars, including actor and now cricket impresario Shah Rukh Khan.
Look south, off into the distance, two enormous towers rise [...]