A 23-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering a County Tyrone pensioner less than four months after completing a rape sentence. Trevor William Hamilton, of Concess Road, Sion Mills, had denied ...

Freddy Eastwood's stunning free-kick earns Southend a shock victory over Man Utd in the Carling Cup.

An exhausted Paula Radcliffe fails to finish in Athens as Japan's Mizuki Noguchi wins the women's marathon.

The United Nations tribunal in Arusha has convicted three former media executives of being key figures in the media campaign to incite ethnic Hutus to kill Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

A British man has been killed and about 12 other people injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Qatar. The car bomb blast occurred at the Doha Players theatre outside the capital, Doha, near a ...

Scotland celebrate sporting glory after being crowned world champions of elephant polo in Nepal.

Steven Gerrard has told Liverpool he wants to leave Anfield after turning down a new £100,000-a-week contract. The 25-year-old captain made his move after Liverpool rejected a £32m bid from ...

Winston Churchill's pet macaw is alive and well, and still parroting the obscenities the great man taught him.

Controversial comedian Bernard Manning dies in a Manchester hospital aged 76 after a short illness.

Forty years ago this week, the world's first cash machine was installed in north London. Meet John Shepherd-Barron, the Scotsman who invented it.

A British soldier who bludgeoned a Danish tour guide to death in Cyprus has been freed from jail early. Allan Ford, 38, was one of three men jailed for 25 years on the island for killing Louise Jensen ...

Tony Blair says his authority is intact despite his first Commons defeat in a vote on detention of terror suspects.