Asian gang members who boasted they had killed a white man have been found guilty of murder. Christopher Yates, 30, was knocked to the ground and his head kicked like a football last November, the Old ...

Women who exercise by doing the housework can reduce their risk of breast cancer, a study suggests. The research on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found doing household chores ...

Celtic midfielder Colin Healy is expected to complete his move to Everton within the next 48 hours. But his agent is not ...

Everyone finds modern life complicated. But imagine for a moment how much more complex it would be if, instead of having to deal with the everyday things like birthdays and train tickets, you had to ...

One of the enduring controversies of the World War II is whether the Allies should have heeded calls to bomb Auschwitz when they learnt the full horror of the Nazi Holocaust.

Entertainer Uri Geller is suing Nintendo, claiming the company has used his image on a Pokémon card. Geller says he is outraged at the alleged use of his image, claiming it debases him. He has begun ...

Crowds gathered as the last Routemaster in operation pulled into Brixton bus garage in south London at around 1440 GMT, much to the chagrin of its fans across the world. The bus, however, will not die ...

Leylandii owners could face fines of up to £1,000 for failing to cut down their high hedges, under new laws.

A brief history of how the suffragettes obtained votes for women in the UK.

The US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other, government papers say. Other weapons that never saw the light of day include ...

Actress Patsy Rowlands, known to millions for her roles in the Carry On films, has died at the age of 71. Rowlands starred in nine of the popular Carry On films, alongside fellow regulars Sid James, ...

The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter. He said the decision to take action in Iraq should have ...