Two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist Halep is bidding to win her first Grand Slam 2018 Australian Open Dates: 15-28 January Venue: Melbourne Park Coverage: Watch highlights on BBC Two, the BBC Sport website and app. Live commentary on the best matches on BBC Radio 5 live, sports extra and online. World number one Simona Halep survived…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the budget battle in Congress (all times local): 12:50 p.m. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is accusing President Donald Trump of reneging on a deal he thought they had neared on immigration and spending. The New York Democrat said on the Senate floor that after a White House meeting…

Edin Dzeko and Emerson Palmieri have given the all-clear to join Chelsea, claim Sky Sport Italia, as negotiations continue with Roma. Transfer guru Gianluca Di Marzio broke the news on Thursday night that talks for left-back Emerson Palmieri had also expanded to include an approach for their centre-forward. Now the same source suggests Dzeko has…

He struck Highways England workers Adam Gibb, 51, who was killed almost instantly, and Paul Holroyd, 51, who has been left in a wheelchair. (Picture: Peter Byrne/PA Wire)A football agent has been jailed after he killed one man and left another paralysed in a motorway crash. Peter Morrison, 37, had been sending text messages and…

A House-passed stopgap bill that would avoid a government shutdown fizzled out in the Senate late Friday night, leaving Congress negotiating frantically as the midnight deadline to fund the government passed. The measure failed in a procedural vote by a 50 to 49 margin. Five Democrats — Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Joe Donnelly of…

The U.S. government officially entered a partial shutdown early Saturday as Senate leaders struggled to reach a deal to at least temporarily resume funding for federal operations before Americans awoke to a political breakdown. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell held a key procedural vote open past the midnight deadline to pass a spending bill with…

Predrag Mijatovic sees no reason why Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo cannot play together at the Santiago Bernabeu as the former Real Madrid forward heaped praise on the Paris Saint-Germain star. Neymar completed a world-record move to PSG from Barcelona in August last year but the Brazil international has already been linked with Spanish and European…

Pressures in intensive care units are at their highest level since the 2010 swine flu pandemic,with wards regularly having no spare beds, senior doctors have warned.  Figures reported by the NHS this winter show that two-thirds of hospital trusts have experienced at least one day over the winter period with no beds at all.  Eleven trusts – which…