JOE Calzaghe's father and trainer Enzo has warned anyone wanting to fight his son to make a big offer quickly or the Welsh fighter will hang up his gloves for good. Calzaghe junior provided plenty of evidence on Saturday night that he can live up to his father's claim to be the best active pound-for-pound fighter in the world when he climbed off the canvas in the first round to dismantle ring legend Roy Jones Jr over 12 rounds, scoring a decisive, unanimous decision victory at Madison Square Garden.

   On 3 December, more than 100 countries, including the UK, will sign a treaty banning cluster bombs. As a result Britain, by law, will have to destroy more than 30 million explosives. The UK does not have the facilities, so they are being exported to Germany for disposal.

   HA NOI — Commercial banks have followed this week’s move by the State Bank of Viet Nam to trim a percentage point off the prime interest rate by slashing various Viet Nam dong-denominated interest rates by as much as 2 percentage points, bringing average commercial lending rates down to between 15 and 18 per cent per year. State-owned banks – including Vietinbank, Mekong Housing Bank, the Bank for Investment and Development of Viet Nam (BIDV), Agribank and Vietcombank –are now charging borrowers rates of around 15-16 per cent per year.