Andy Murray beats world number one Rafael Nadal in the Abu Dhabi exhibition final.

A young Hertfordshire sailor resumes an attempt to be the youngest to sail the world solo.

Auto-pilot problems force a young Hertfordshire sailor to abandon a record-breaking ambition.

Devon endurance runner Kevin Carr says he is hoping to break a series of records in the UK after his plans to run the length of the Sahara desert we put back due to surgery.

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The youngest sailor to cross the Atlantic single-handedly sets out on a lone voyage around the world.

The BBC's Alison Harper meets 16-year-old Michael Perham who is hoping to become the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the globe alone.

A Cornish sailor raises £20,000 for the RNLI after circumnavigating Britain in memory of a famous Victorian shipping disaster.

The BBC's Peter Biles witnesses the extent of Zimbabwe's growing food crisis as the political deadlock continues.

The Suez Canal continues to play a key roll in global transportation - but regular passenger ships have been replaced by supertankers, Christian Fraser discovers.

A boat powered by bio diesel arrives in Cornwall to raise awareness of renewable fuels.

A car powered by cooking oil arrives in Greece after a journey across Europe, fuelled only by waste fat.

Quadriplegic sailor Hilary Lister, who is paralysed from the neck down, is forced to abandon her solo trip around the British coast.

A group of sailors is set to begin an attempt to recreate what their captain believes to have been the first circumnavigation of Africa in about 600BC.

Pictures from the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics

In the 21st Century, the term "flat-earther" is used to describe someone who is spectacularly - and seemingly wilfully - ignorant. But is there still anybody out there who doesn't believe the earth is a globe?

A Liverpool skipper sets a new record for sailing around the Anglesey.

The Jason-2 satellite, which was launched to measure the shape of the world's oceans, sends back its first maps.

A couple from Greater Manchester sailing around the world are robbed by pirates off the coast of Venezuela.