Final News

Sydney - There were long queues as people tried to ride the Sydney Monorail for one last time on its final day of operation. The monorail infrastructure will be removed to make way for a new convention centre at Darling Harbour.

Fuengirola - Despite being Saturday night, it's a quiet evening here in Spain. Everyone must be having an early night in hopeful anticipation.

London - For either Reading or Swansea, a place in the top-flight of English soccer stands before them, however the financial benefits could prove the real driving force in tomorrow's Championship play-off final.

Plymouth - Well-wishers waved, tugs fired hoses high into the sky in salute and the HMS Chatham fired her ceremonial guns as the ship made her final homecoming on January 26, after 20 years of service.

Parsons - The final roll of Kodachrome film to be developed went through the sole remaining developer's machine, in Kansas, on December 30.

Portsmouth - A large crowd gathered in the cold and fog in Portsmouth to see the HMS Ark Royal return to her home port for the final time.

26 May 2010 will be remembered as the day that much of the American public proved, for the second year running, its inability to hear, let alone discern what it hears, by denying Crystal Bowersox her rightful place as American Idol winner 2010.

Madrid - European soccer, Champions' League final; Full Time: Bayern Muenchen 0, Internazionale Milano 2. Jose Mourinho has completed a remarkable season treble by adding the Champions' League title to the Italian scudetto and Italian Cup.

The Champions' League final, the last match of the most prestigious European soccer competition, will tonight pit Inter Milan against Bayern Muenchen, the prize being the coveted trophy and the bragging rights of being the best soccer team in Europe.

After months of competition, thousands of candidates have been whittled down to just two. Crystal Bowersox, from Elliston, Ohio, and Lee DeWyze, from Chicago, Illinois, will go head to head for the American Idol title on May 25 and 26.