A mother who had never set her eyes on her baby, a poor villager who hadn't worked for years, an old man who had never seen his pension money — these are just some of the thousands of blind Namibians whose lives have genuinely been transformed by…

Fighters for Libya’s new leadership managed to take over the port in Sirte on Tuesday morning, a senior military commander in Tripoli said. The seizure followed fierce clashes with forces loyal to Gadhafi.

The uncapped Surrey fast bowler, Stuart Meaker, has been called into England’s one-day squad for their tour of India next month, after the selectors chose to rest their senior paceman, James Anderson, for the five-match ODI series