Conrad Black arrives at a house in Palm Beach, Florida, after leaving prison yesterday. Photograph: Hans Deryk/Reuters The former Daily Telegraph owner Conrad Black was last night savouring his first night of freedom after a judge ordered his release from a Florida jail. The disgraced peer... 

Louis Oosthuizen sizes up a putt in Stockholm. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images The Open champion, Louis Oosthuizen, lost the lead at the Nordea Scandinavian Masters in Stockholm, but still has a chance to make history this weekend. Nobody has ever lifted the Claret Jug and then won another... 

Eleven people died when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP The testimony of Michael Williams, an electronics technician, that emergency alarms on board the Deepwater Horizon were disabled weeks before it exploded, killing 11 workers and spewing more than 4m barrels... 

Heathrow owner BAA faces disruption as Unite members are balloted on action over pay Millions of airline passengers face the threat of severe disruption at the UK’s largest airports during the August bank holiday weekend after the Unite trade union launched a strike ballot at BAA. The... 

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney will make his first pre-season appearance in the new Aviva Stadium. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/EPA Sir Alex Ferguson has earmarked Manchester United’s friendly in Dublin next month as the comeback date for Wayne Rooney and most of the rest of club’s...