Dorset, UK BBC - More than 700 biscuit athletes have entered a throwing competition in Dorset.The Dorset Knob Throwing contest in Cattistock involves participants tossing a locally made, spherical biscuit as far as they can. Organiser Nigel Collins said 5,000 people were expected to attend the ...

DAMASCUS  A Syrian government daily on Sunday accused the United States of having "thrown oil on the fire" of the country's conflict by doubling its aid to the opposition."The meeting of the so-called 'Friends of Syria' held in Istanbul yesterday has thrown oil on the fire of the Syrian ...

Chief Justice Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry saying that the frequency of acid attacks is fast increasing added that now even the women have started throwing acid on men.He made the remark during the hearing of a case related to Wanni, Swara, Singchatthi cases during which the court directed ...

The city’s judges here gave up work on Saturday after an infuriated lawyer hurled a shoe at a judge as he delivered the verdict in a case.Exasperated by the verdict in a case in the court of Additional Session Judge Asad Ali, the angry lawyer Chaudhry Maqsood Advocate flung his shoe towards ...

HAMBURG (Germany) (AFP) SV Hamburgs Peruvian striker Paolo Guerrero is facing club sanctions after launching a bottle at the head of an angry supporter following a scoreless draw with Hanover on Sunday. According to television pictures Guerrero who recently returned from a seven-month injury ...

JAKARTA  - South Korea admitted it threw its Thomas Cup match against England on Monday, plunging the elite tournament into controversy and overshadowing China's continued march towards the title. The Koreans, who have emerged as a powerful force in men's badminton, lost 4-1 after fielding ...