IN the back of a black Mercedes on a ride from the New York Stock Exchange to an IHOP in New Jersey, the woman they call the Velvet Hammer leaned in close.

Jesse Jackson issues extraordinary apology to Democratic candidate after saying he wanted to 'cut his nuts out'

Seventeen pages of graphs, footnotes and economic modelling; oh, and another couple of pages of bibliography. Hardly the stuff to get the pulse racing, you might think.

Mark Cavendish became the first British cyclist since David Millar in 2003, to win a stage of the Tour de France

Presidential candidate says Tehran is 'great threat' after testing nine missiles capable of hitting US and Israeli bases