Usain Bolt, in an event not considered his best, has broken the 100m record at 9.72 seconds. The previous record was 9.74 seconds held by fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell. Bolt broke the record at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York. Bolt is now the world's fastest man.

Asafa Powell has vowed to return to top flight and says he will prove his worth at next year's Olympic games. The world record holder, who went down to a stunning defeat by American Tyson Gay in the men's 100 metres final at the 11th IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan yesterday.

Former Trinidad and Tobago Olympic sprinter Alvin Henry confessed to raping four women and a teenage girl during a four-year period after stalking them in the city's parks, authorities said yesterday.

World record holder Asafa Powell sped to a world leading victory in 9.97 seconds to capture the 100 metres at the Artur Takac Memorial in Serbia yesterday evening. In the top performance of the night, Powell outgunned a pair of Caribbean colleagues and was very pleased to deliver the sub-10 clocking he was hoping for in front of 15,000 fans at Partizan Stadium.

The awards for Asafa Powell keep pouring in as he was yesterday presented with the Commonwealth Games Sports Foundation Athlete of the Year.

Jamaica-born American Olympic 4x400m gold medalist Sanya Richards believes Jamaica was the big winner at the IAAF World Athlete of the Year awards ceremony. Asafa Powell was also named Male Athlete of the Year.

Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson powered to victory at a super grand prix meeting in Sweden yesterday.

Swimmers George Bovell and Shaune Fraser combined with squash star Nicolette Fernandes and cyclist Iona Wynter for four English-speaking Caribbean gold medals on day four of the 20th Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games, on Wednesday.

Asafa Powell equalled the men's 100 metres world record with a time of 9.77 seconds at a Grand Prix meeting yesterday and then said later he could have gone faster.

World 100-metre record-holder Asafa Powell delighted the National Stadium gathering last night by clocking a world-leading 9.95 seconds to win the Men's 'A' race at the third Jamaica International Invitational Meet.