• Boss Steve Fallon - a former Cambridge star - knows the U's will be desperate to avoid defeat even at this early stage of the season.

    BBC: Cambs rivals ready for derby game

  • Sri Lanka can sweep this series 3-0 with a win in Brisbane on Sunday, but the Aussies will be desperate to stop the rot at the Gabba, where the Ashes series starts in 20 days.

    BBC: Australia crash to seventh defeat

  • You may be able to tell from my desperate clutching at stats that there is little in the way of paddock gossip this weekend, although some major changes are afoot on Lorenzo's side of the Yamaha garage - more details of which are likely to emerge as the weekend progresses.

    BBC: Matt Roberts' MotoGP column

  • But if the work pays off, Dirks may be able to give his desperate young patients a real shot at a cure, and put his scalpel away for good.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • Both Donald, who won the money lists in Europe and the United States last season, and fellow Englishman Westwood, whose brilliant closing 63 at PGA National left him fourth behind McIlroy, will be desperate to win their first major titles next month.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Wednesday's presentations are unlikely to make or break a candidate, our correspondent said, but at such a late stage of the bidding process they will be desperate to deliver a flawless performance.

    BBC: Cities make 2016 Olympics pitches

  • ' and they all said 'we're desperate to play these again next time at Kingston Park, we'll be waiting for them'.

    BBC: Newcastle Falcons indiscipline puzzles coach Alan Tait

  • But with the comparative riches of Europe so seemingly close at hand, desperate migrants will undoubtedly continue to put their lives at risk for what they believe to be their one chance of a brighter, better future.

    BBC: Migrants risk all from Libyan port

  • Shortly after he made those comments, Dr. Michael Bellew, a resident at Charity Hospital, where more than 200 patients were still waiting to be evacuated, described desperate conditions.

    CNN: vert.sandbag.drop.pool.jpg

  • Similarly, in boom conditions commodity consumers will be so desperate to get their hands on raw materials that they will drive prices up to absurd levels, at least for a short time.

    ECONOMIST: Investors may not have caused commodity price rises

  • On Saturday they will create history when they meet Ireland in the first football match to be staged at Croke Park, but Robinson said there will be no room for sentiment with both sides desperate for victory.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Internationals | Robinson backs under-fire Toshack

  • But here's the thing -- I already asked him, and the chances that I'm going to be so desperate for a social recommendation that I'll turn to my social networks for something to do is, at least in my case, slim to none.

    ENGADGET: This is the Modem World: Please don't personalize me. I know who I am

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