AP - Promising young pitchers Kyle Davies, Ian Snell, Dan Meyer and Jered Weaver put together solid outings in Friday as they try to make their big league clubs when the regular season starts.

AP - Ron Lewis scored 19 points to lead the second-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes to a 70-62 first-round win over Davidson in the NCAA.

Reuters - The Queen shared a joke with an ailing Ian Thorpe on Thursday, suggesting his absence from the Commonwealth Games would allow other people to win medals.

Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair faces new questions over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on the Tube.

Reuters - Former Vodafone chief Chris Gent severed his links with the group on Sunday, as Chairman Ian MacLaurin broke his silence to declare support for CEO Arun Sarin to quell talk of a boardroom rift at the cell-phone giant.

Sir Ian Blair, Met police chief, secretly recorded a phone conversation with the attorney general, it has emerged.

AFP - Rangers crushed Kilmarnock 4-0 at Ibrox in the Scottish Premier League to narrow the gap on Hearts in the race for Champions League qualification.

AFP - A hard-hitting Kevin Pietersen, along with Ian Bell, pulled England out of early trouble with an 81-run stand on the opening day of the second Test against India here.

AFP - Witnesses have told an official probe that top police officers feared within hours of the shooting of a Brazilian that the wrong man had been killed in an anti-terror chase last year, a newspaper said.

Danielle George - AHN Staff Reporter Melbourne, Australia (AHN) - Swimming star Ian Thorpe pulls out of the Commonwealth games and leaves his teammates worrying about his future in the sport. Thorpe continues to suffer from bronchitis and a chest infection. According to BBC news he has not...

Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter Brisbane, Australia (AHN) –Australian swim star Ian Thorpe backs out of the Commonwealth Games after being unable to recover from bronchitis and a chest infection. The 23-year-old, says, "It's very frustrating, it's very...

Swimming star Ian Thorpe pulls out of the Commonwealth Games after failing to recover from illness.

Reuters - Ian Brookes is trying to rescue the zoozoo from extinction.

AFP - Celtic went 16 points clear in the Scottish Premier League with a 3-0 victory at home to Aberdeen.

AFP - Sipping a tumbler of Johnnie Walker whisky as he chats with his friends in a hotel bar in Mumbai, Kunal Doshi, a smartly-dressed young solicitor, appears an unlikely warrior.

Danielle George - All Headline News Staff Reporter Melbourne, Australia (AHN) - A mysterious illness may keep Ian Thorpe from the Commonwealth Games. The 23-year-old Australian has not competed at international level since the Athens Olympics in 2004. Thorpe's manager, David Flaskas says,...

AFP - Three Britons who spent nearly four years in an Egyptian prison for membership in the banned Hizb al-Tahrir (Liberation Party) are to return home on Thursday, the Islamist political party said.

Metropolitan police chief Sir Ian Blair is to be questioned about his force's procedures for dealing with suicide bombers.

Danielle George - All Headline News Staff Reporter Melbourne, Australia (AHN) - Bronchitis is keeping Australian swimming star Ian Thorpe from readying himself for the Commonwealth Games. Manager David Flaskas tells BBC that the five-time Olympic gold medalist will hopefully be able to resume...

The mother of Moors murder victim Keith Bennett speaks of her shock at receiving a letter from her son's killer Ian Brady.