SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore looks set to be unveiled later on Wednesday as the host city for the glittering annual finale of the women’s tennis season.

The south-east Asian city-state has been vying with Tianjin in China and Monterrey, Mexico, for the right to stage the $6 million WTA Championships in 2014 and beyond.

SINGAPORE, May 8 (Reuters) – Singapore looks set to be unveiled later on Wednesday as the host city for the glittering annual finale of the women’s tennis season.

The south-east Asian city-state has been vying with Tianjin in China and Monterrey, Mexico, for the right to stage the $6 million WTA Championships in 2014 and beyond.

LONDON (Reuters) – A trainer for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s horses has admitted to a “catastrophic error” in using banned steroids to dope horses at the Dubai ruler’s Godolphin racing stable.

Eleven horses tested positive for steroids, including stanozolol – the performance-enhancing drug used by disgraced Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

By Ossian Shine

(Reuters) – Britain’s Times newspaper has published a full climbdown following an internal investigation of the ‘Qatar Dream League’ story it ran last week, an episode the paper on Monday described as a “journalistic nightmare”.

In a column headlined ‘When we are wrong, we will hold our hands up. It’s the right thing to do’, the newspaper’s Football Editor Tony Evans said it had appeared increasingly clear that the newspaper had been duped, and that their checks had not been stringent enough in the rush to publication.

March 18 (Reuters) – Britain’s Times newspaper has published a full climbdown following an internal investigation of the ‘Qatar Dream League’ story it ran last week, an episode the paper on Monday described as a “journalistic nightmare”.

In a column headlined ‘When we are wrong, we will hold our hands up. It’s the right thing to do’, the newspaper’s Football Editor Tony Evans said it had appeared increasingly clear that the newspaper had been duped, and that their checks had not been stringent enough in the rush to publication.

By Ossian Shine

(Reuters) – Southampton threw up a defensive wall around both their goal and their new Argentine manager on Monday, repelling a high-flying Everton side as well as a threatened fans’ protest at St Mary’s.

Having replaced the sacked Nigel Adkins on Friday, Mauricio Pochettino was braced for a fiery baptism at home as fans used social media all weekend to vent their fury at chairman Nicola Cortese’s treatment of the revered Adkins.

Jan 22 (Reuters) – Southampton threw up a defensive wall around both their goal and their new Argentine manager on Monday, repelling a high-flying Everton side as well as a threatened fans’ protest at St Mary’s.

Having replaced the sacked Nigel Adkins on Friday, Mauricio Pochettino was braced for a fiery baptism at home as fans used social media all weekend to vent their fury at chairman Nicola Cortese’s treatment of the revered Adkins.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain spent nearly nine billion pounds ($14.42 billion) to create a magical and ambitious wonderland of venues for the 2012 Olympic Games, where fans were thrilled across a capital whose grime and grandeur alike got a makeover of global glamour.

The Games proved a timely shot in the arm, spiritually if not financially, for a bruised nation struggling with economic recession. The government, citing figures that were all but unmeasurable, said they would even deliver monetary benefits, to the tune of some $20 billion, though others were skeptical.

LONDON, Dec 28 (Reuters) – Britain spent nearly nine billion pounds ($14.42 billion) to create a magical and ambitious wonderland of venues for the 2012 Olympic Games, where fans were thrilled across a capital whose grime and grandeur alike got a makeover of global glamour.

The Games proved a timely shot in the arm, spiritually if not financially, for a bruised nation struggling with economic recession. The government, citing figures that were all but unmeasurable, said they would even deliver monetary benefits, to the tune of some $20 billion, though others were sceptical.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain spent nearly nine billion pounds to create a magical and ambitious wonderland of venues for the 2012 Olympic Games, where fans were thrilled across a capital whose grime and grandeur alike got a makeover of global glamour.

The Games proved a timely shot in the arm, spiritually if not financially, for a bruised nation struggling with economic recession. The government, citing figures that were all but unmeasurable, said they would even deliver monetary benefits, to the tune of some $20 billion, though others were sceptical.