Dan Hallam, an international intern, teaches adaptive skiing to clients with disabilities

For sports fans 2008 was an excellent year, with the Swiss-hosted European football championships and the Beijing Olympics the icing on the cake.

Dan Hallam, an international intern, teaches adaptive skiing to clients with disabilities

Istanbul! Everyone who visits this ancient city, known as Byzantium, then Constantinople and now Istanbul, has marvellous memories. Sprawling across the Bosphorus Straits, sitting astride both Europe and Asia...

China has announced that it will send two navy destroyers and a support vessel to the Gulf of Aden to combat piracy off Somalia. The foreign ministry said Chinese warships will leave on December 26 to join the growing number of international warships patrolling off Somalia.

China will send two navy destroyers and a support vessel to the Gulf of Aden to combat piracy off Somalia, the foreign ministry announced Saturday.

Chinese navy soldiers are pictured in Shanghai in 2004. China will send two navy destroyers and a support vessel to the Gulf of Aden to combat piracy off the Somalia coast, a foreign ministry spokesman said Saturday, according to state media.

DJIBOUTI, Dec 19, 2008 (AFP) - Warning sirens blare at a French airbase in Djibouti as news filters through that pirates have attacked a Chinese ship.

THE record time for the Rolex Sydney to Hobart race stands to be smashed by hours if the current weather prognosis holds for Boxing Day.

DJIBOUTI: Warning sirens blare at a French airbase in Djibouti as news filters through that pirates have attacked a Chinese ship. "There's been a pirate attack, we'll have to go..." said David Dugue, a sub-lieutenant on a French Navy Atlantique 2 maritime reconnaissance aircraft.