Anita DeFrantz has been elected as an International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president and Aruba’s Nicole Hoevertsz and Switzerland’s Denis Oswald joined the Executive Board here today.

(CNN)French President Emmanuel Macron has troubles at home this week. France's second biggest union, the CGT, is leading public sector, rail and energy workers in local strikes in protest at Macron's proposed deregulation of the labor market.

There is a new, engaging tennis queen of Queens.

Ranked in the 900s last month because of an 11-month layoff after foot surgery, Sloane Stephens finally has arrived.

Brian Lewis, the President of the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC), has issued a rallying call to the organisation's member nations as Hurricane Irma continues to wreak havoc across the area.

The athletic family in the Caribbean is mourning the sudden and untimely passing of athletics coach Xavier ‘Dag” Samuels, who passed away on Wednesday. He was one of the reported ten lives that were lost during the passage of hurricane Irma through the Eastern Caribbean on Wednesday.

The most powerful Atlantic Ocean storm in recorded history is sweeping across the Caribbean leaving destruction in its wake.

Hurricane Irma howled past Puerto Rico on Wednesday after thrashing several smaller islands with tree-snapping winds, drenching rains and pounding surf on a collision course with Florida.