Tanya Gold · The Guardian, Sunday 9 June 2013 12.25 EDT. Jump to comments (…) Andrzej Krauze pregnancy illustration. 'There is a weird universality to impending motherhood, a sense of shared ownership, and of living inside a fertility ritual that …

Missy Franklin won her fifth gold medal of swimming's world championships at Barcelona, Spain, to tie the record for most titles by a woman in the biennial meet. Franklin clocked 2 minutes 4.76 seconds in the 200-meter backstroke Saturday to match the …

BARCELONA (AFP) – Japan's Daiya Seto claimed gold in the men's 400m individual medley at the swimming world championships on Sunday with American Chase Kalisz in second and Brazil's Thiago Pereira in third. The 19-year-old powered home in the …

BARCELONA (Reuters) – China's Sun Yang won a second consecutive world championship gold in the men's 1,500 meters freestyle to complete a rare treble of distance titles on Sunday. The Olympic champion and world record holder clocked a time of 14 …

Gold miners have started to protect themselves against more falls in the price of the precious metal, in a tentative return to the long-shunned practice of hedging. Hedging by selling future production at fixed prices fell out of favour in the industry …

Barcelona, Spain – American Missy Franklin became a member of a select group by winning a sixth gold medal on the final night at the 2013 World Swimming Championships. The 18-year-old Franklin swam the first leg of the 4×100-meter medley relay and …

Franklin claimed her sixth gold medal Sunday night, swimming the leadoff leg for the Americans in the 400-meter medley relay. She gave the U.S. a slight lead, and her teammates – Jessica Hardy, Dana Vollmer and Megan Romano – made it look easy from …

Camille Lacourt won the men's 50 metres backstroke gold at the swimming world championships on Sunday with French teammate Jeremy Stravius and the USA's Matt Grevers tying for second place. Lacourt, who shared the world 100m backstroke title with …

BARCELONA, Spain — Hungary beat Montenegro 8-7 on Saturday for its third world men's water polo title. Hungary never trailed but needed Marton Szivos' goal with less than 2 minutes to play and a save by goalkeeper Viktor Nagy in the final seconds to …