At just 157 centimetres tall and weighing around 50 kilos, Mary Kom is already a five-time world champion and she now has her sights firmly set on qualifying for the Olympics at the international boxing finals in China from May 9.
Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge will mark the first anniversary of their marriage on Sunday.
What's most remarkable about Cambodia's imminent Davis Cup debut is not that the small nation has finally made it to a top world tennis event.
While the stadiums are all but ready, with 100 days to go until the Olympic torch is lit for the third time in London, question marks hang over the security of the Games and transport.
Disneyland Paris will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Thursday, but while Mickey Mouse now draws nearly twice as many visitors as the Louvre's Mona Lisa, his fantasy park is not yet out of the financial woods.
Returning to Kabul after two decades away, Meena Rahmani realised there was nowhere for young Afghans to gather and relax.
The Euro Disney resort near the French capital, Europe's biggest single tourist draw, is preparing to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
The Buranovskiye Babushki, a group of elderly village women, have been chosen to represent Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest, despite a lack of obvious showbusiness attributes.
English-Malawi singer Malia is filling concert halls across Europe with the revisited repertoire of jazz great Nina Simone.
Myanmar's musicians have struggled for years under dictatorship, but with sweeping reforms from a new regime, change is in the air in the formerly reclusive country.
