A double amputee sprinter has won the right to be eligible to compete at this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing after sport's highest court backed his appeal against a ban imposed by athletics ...

* Pistorius faces minimum 15-year jail sentence * Manslaughter conviction was upgraded to murder on appeal * Sentencing will bring case to a close after years of wrangling By Joe Brock JOHANNESBURG, ...

“Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius appears in court on Thursday to face judgement over the killing of his model girlfriend, ending a six-month trial that turned the amputee’s private life into a global ...

PRETORIA, South Africa -- Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, completing a transformation from an acclaimed sprinter at the 2012 ...

Oscar Pistorius, the South African double amputee "Blade Runner" who inspired the world by competing as a sprinter in the London Olympics, is under police custody Thursday after allegedly shooting and ...

South African double-amputee Oscar Pistorius, 25, known as "Blade Runner" due to his carbon-fiber double prosthetics, thought it was all over on Thursday, when he was waiting for his turn to run in ...

In this file photo, Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius is escorted by police officers as he arrives for his sentencing for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, at North ...

Oscar Pistorius gestures at the end of the fourth day of sentencing proceedings in the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Pistorius will have a second chance at parole at a ...