Six foreigners have been sentenced to 10 days of detention for upsetting public order, Beijing police said on Thursday, without giving specific details of their activities.

Revazi Mindorashvili of Georgia beat the Russian gold medal favorite in an emotional semifinal match, then rallied in the finals to win the Olympic freestyle wrestling 84-kilogram championship.

A BBC charity funded the activities of Islamist militants linked to the July 7 bombing in Britain, a news report has said.

A jetliner heading to the popular Canary Islands vacation resort crashed during takeoff, turning a wooded area off the end of a runway into a hellish scene of charred bodies and smoldering wreckage.

Olympic athletes appear the peak of physical form, youthful, muscled and lean, but many push themselves to play through pain, undergo multiple operations, and often end up with the knees or hips of people twice their age.

Sandeep Kumar's dream of winning a medal for his adopted country remained unrealised with the Delhi-born Melbourne cabbie losing his first round battle in the 84kg freestyle event.

Jamaican double sprint gold medallist Usain Bolt is now on a par with the great US sprinter Jesse Owens but should show more respect to his fellow competitors, IOC chief Jacques Rogge said.

Four horses have been banned from competing in Thursday's Olympic Games jumping competition for doping, the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) announced in Hong Kong.

Married men are now spending more on their looks to become trimmer, fitter and more sexy.

With 21 Gold medals at stake, Thursday will see some serious action. Jamaicans are prepared to play party-poopers for the US contingent by sweeping all the medals of the glamour sprints.

From tantrums to tears, action on the Olympics podiums in China has often matched that off it, keeping spectators at medal ceremonies riveted long after the end of competitions.

China's hopes in front of a supportive home crowd rest mainly on how they ward off the penalty corner threat from Maartje Paumen, whose 11 goals so far is the most by a woman player at a single Olympics.

Germany won their third consecutive Olympics bronze medal but made heavy weather of it against never-say-die Japan with a hard-fought 2-0 victory in the womens football playoff at the Workers' Stadium in Beijing on Thursday.

China's absolute domination of Olympic gold medals at the Beijing Olympic Games has not come as a surprise to the 65 year old IOC President Jacques Rogge.

Campbell-Brown's comfortable victory means Jamaica have won four golds, a silver and two bronzes in both the men's and women's 100m and 200m events, in a battle for supremacy with the much-vaunted US track team.

Phelps has already committed himself to four more years of training in order to compete at the 2012 Olympics in London but Bowman said they were planning a lighter programme next time.

Taymazov, the defending Olympic champion who was also world champion in 2003 and 2006, beat Bakhtiyar Akhmedov of Russia in the last final match of the wrestling competition.

The study, published in the'Journal of Non-verbal Behaviour, suggests that liars blink less than normal.

The US navy will field its most powerful nuclear warships in a new range of wargames with India in the Arabian sea from October 15.

Raheja's IT SEZ planned at Verna industrial estate had faced stern opposition from the locals and the state government even after it was notified by the Union commerce ministry's board of approval. The state government has written to the Union