A fine solo try from Brett Finch helps book Wigan a place in the Challenge Cup semi-finals with victory over St Helens.

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Wigan 18-4 St Helens

Women’s European Gymnastics, live coverage of the apparatus finals from Brussels.

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VIDEO: Live – Women’s European Gymnastics

Around 900,000 tickets for the London 2012 Olympics, including events such as the men’s 100m final, go on sale – initially to 20,000 unsuccessful bidders.

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New round of 2012 tickets on sale

A collie dog from Aviemore and her owner are set to bag their 220th and final Corbett.

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Collie Molly to tackle final hill

W hen the human rights lawyer Chen Guang­cheng escaped ­extra-legal house arrest and beatings and found his way to the U.S. Embassy last month, he became an instant hero on the Chinese Internet. How had he escaped? How could a single blind man tear such a hole in the government’s pervasive blanket of weiwen, or stability maintenance? Many called it a “miracle”; stories of “China’s blind spiderman” went viral. Eventually someone who had helped Chen tweeted an account. Chen had done merely this: “In nineteen hours climbed eight walls, jumped a dozen or so irrigation ridges, fell down a few hundred times, injured a foot, and finally crossed a stream that got him out of the village.” Read full article > >

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America’s outdated view of China

President Obama’s long, tortuous metamorphosis on same-sex marriage finally reached its evolved state right in between stinky cheese and “General Hospital.” Smoked out by his own vice president , Obama decided to come out of the closet on the issue to ABC News’s Robin Roberts, who rushed her scoop onto the air Wednesday afternoon during the closing minutes of “The Revolution,” ABC’s new talk show featuring a “stellar dream team of experts that will help complete transformations in all areas of life.” Read full article > >

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Obama comes out in favor of same-sex marriage

Finally voices his opinion.

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President Obama Endorses Gay Marriage

Liverpool avenge Saturday’s FA Cup final defeat with an emphatic win that end’s Chelsea’s hopes of a top-four Premier League finish.

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Liverpool 4-1 Chelsea

Watch highlights from a dramatic game as Great Britain’s men miss out on a place in the final of the Olympic hockey test event after a 3-3 draw with Australia on the London 2012 pitch. (UK users only)

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VIDEO: Highlights – GB men 3-3 Australia

Ali Carter’s gritty display earns him a 17-12 win over Stephen Maguire and a place in the World Championship final.

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Gritty Carter into Crucible final

Stewart Downing says an FA Cup final victory over Chelsea would make up for Liverpool’s disappointing Premier League campaign.

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Cup win can top ‘strange season’

An own goal by Curtis Davies earns Blackpool a narrow first-leg semi-final lead over Birmingham in the Championship play-offs.

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Blackpool 1-0 Birmingham

Ronnie O’Sullivan makes two centuries and wins six frames in a row to lead Matthew Stevens 11-5 in their World Championship semi-final.

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Superb O’Sullivan dominates semi

Ronnie O’Sullivan makes two centuries and wins six frames in a row to lead Matthew Stevens 11-5 in their World Championship semi-final.

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Superb O’Sullivan dominates semi

LONDON — Britain’s ruling coalition sustained punishing loses in local elections , with near-final results released Friday showing both the Conservatives and their partner Liberal Democrats giving up hundreds of seats in a stinging rebuke of the two-year-old government of Prime Minister David Cameron. Read full article > >

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British voters deal coalition rebuke in local elections