Anytime a major pool event makes it's way to Tennessee, players have to beware of the hot stick of Jonathan Hennessee . This weekend, at Sevierville Billiard Club in Sevierville TN, was no exception to that rule. Hennessee looked well

ANDRE Agassi delved deep into his 20 years of experience at Flushing Meadows to see off belligerent Belgian Xavier Malisse in five sets at the US Open yesterday.

Billiard Club Network is pleased to announce the live webcasting of the 2005 U S Open 9-Ball Championship. All TV matches in the Cuetec Arena at the Conference Center in Chesapeake, VA will be available for live online viewing beginning

A 23-YEAR-OLD man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of murdering the black teenager Anthony Walker, 18, who was attacked with an axe in Merseyside in July.

BRITONS are wasting millions a year on unwanted direct debits and subscriptions, new research shows.

MARKS & Spencer has been fined £10,000 for misleading shoppers about a range of clothing.

CHILDREN are less likely to view scenes of sex and violence on television if they are with their father than if they watch with mother, according to new research.

THE pathologist who conducted a post-mortem examination on Jean Charles de Menezes had previously altered a different report, which led to a surgeon being accused of manslaughter, the General Medical Council heard yesterday.

CLEAVAGES are disappearing into fashion history as lingerie producers report declining sales of push-up bras.

AFTER surviving the roughest seas and harshest weather, Tracy Edwards, skipper of the first all-female round-the-world yacht crew, was yesterday declared bankrupt, swamped by debts of more than £8 million.

TONY Blair, the Prime Minister, was last night facing fresh questions about his use of RAF aircraft for personal journeys after it emerged that members of his family had travelled on a plane from the Royal Squadron without him.

GRASS-ROOTS Conservatives will reject a plan to let MPs chose the party's next leader, the front-runner for the post predicted yesterday.

SEVEN British soldiers on patrol in southern Iraq killed an innocent teenager in a "gratuitously violent" attack using rifle butts, helmets, fists and feet, a court heard yesterday.

TWO British soldiers were killed in southern Iraq yesterday when bombers detonated a device next to their patrol.

EUROPE should import even more cheap consumer goods from China, Tony Blair said yesterday after Beijing and the European Union compromised to end the so-called "bra wars" trade row.

Projects designed to keep New Orleans from flooding in a hurricane prepared the city for a probable scenario, not the worst-case scenario.

PLATFORM THE so-called "bra wars" issue may have been temporarily resolved by freeing goods and transferring some of the quotas to 2006, but the underlying problem of protectionist policies remains.

COMMUTERS using bicycles to beat the rush hour could be unwittingly increasing their risk of heart disease, according to new research.

THE DOCK remained empty and no-one could explain to appeal court judges why the man had not been brought from jail for the hearing.

THE FORUM THE Court of Appeal's recent decision in Copsey versus WWB Devon Clays Ltd deals with the application of Article 9(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights.