Newcastle winger Hugo Viana has agreed a season-long loan deal with Valencia. The 22-year-old Portugal international held ...

The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has been discussing plans to set permanent borders for Israel with his British ...

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

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 ...

Well-armed ethnic Hema fighters have taken control of the troubled town of Bunia in north-eastern Democratic Republic of ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Wartime UK leader Winston Churchill favoured letting Gandhi die if he went on hunger strike while in custody.

Under Chad Varah's leadership, the Samaritans saved thousands of lives, but he felt the modern movement had betrayed its founding principles.

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