NBA Africa celebrates basketball at Homecoming Festival
National Basketball Association (NBA) Africa recently celebrated the growing popularity of the game in Nigeria, when the yearly Homecoming Festival returned to Lagos over the Easter weekend.
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New spiral ramp and coffee shop set to open in Stockport interchange
When the first buses rolled out of Stockport interchange last month, it marked a landmark moment for the town which is undergoing huge change.
New Zealand pro women's league puts men in the shade by doubling pay
New Zealand's professional women's basketball league is doubling player payments this season with the result that they are likely to be paid more than their male equivalents.
Eight Manchester pubs we'll never see the likes of again and what replaced them
It seems most weeks we hear the sad news that a once loved pub has been demolished, and with it, part of the social fabric of our city and years of history.
It was the 'creepiest place in Manchester'. But it mended so many hearts
Imagine being a child, pushing open a door to a old shop - you cough as your lungs fill with the smell of dust and glue. It's dark, but through the door there's a steep narrow staircase; you walk up to the top and into a cramped room.
Can this Greater Manchester area at the heart of our heritage be saved?
It is a cluster of buildings which once contributed greatly to Manchester's industrial heartbeat. But they also brought archictectural panache.
China is now visa-free for Europeans: Take a high-speed train to futuristic cities and fabulous food
As the fourth largest country in the world, China has a vast area of diverse landscapes.
'Abandoned UFO' on the M6 was a striking vision of the future
It's a familiar site to anyone who regularly drives on the M6, but for the uninitiated, one building's unusual design will have had some motorists doing a double-take. Forton Services, near Lancaster, was built to service users of the newly built 13.5 mile stretch of the M6 connecting the Lancaster bypass and Preston bypass in 1965.