Anil Kumble announces his immediate Test retirement as India draw the third Test against Australia in Delhi.

Cricket can help curb bad behaviour in schools and improve concentration in the classroom, researchers say.

Ricky Ponting's first century on Indian soil puts Australia on top in the first Test in Bangalore.

David Gray has lambasted American interrogators for allegedly using his music to help extract information from internees in Iraq. Why might his music be chosen and what effect on prisoners is music meant to achieve?

Sport and gaming are moving closer together argues Margaret Robertson.

Andy Murray is through to the third round as Maria Sharapova and Andy Roddick tumble at Wimbledon.

Welsh chapels could call on the archbishop of Canterbury to apologise for an execution in 1593.

The badly decomposed body of a man found in a river in Bedford last summer remains unidentified, police say.

Middle Eastern papers are abuzz as Iraq's neighbours meet in Egypt to try to bring peace to the country.

Ruling party candidate Umaru Yar'Adua is declared the winner of Nigeria's controversial presidential poll.

Results from Nigeria's widely criticised elections are due to be announced, amid tight security in the capital.

Mark Allen's first appearance at the Crucible will be a family affair

BBC's Umaru Fofana finds out why Nigerian filmmakers are accusing Fespaco of discrimination.

BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on the battle of the blogosphere under way in France three months ahead of the presidential election.

Another seven Hindi-speaking migrants are killed and two others die in a fourth day of attacks in north-east India.

BBC Sport analyst Leonardo's verdict on Ballon d'Or winner Fabio Cannavaro

A military air training range is facing pressure to close down amid complaints of noise and increased activity.

With witches. children and knights, London's West End prepares for another influx of big-budget musicals.

Some of the most striking images from around the world on 15 August 2006.

Stretching out for a snooze after a Sunday roast is hard to resist - and now scientists have explained why.