In his latest gaffe, President George W Bush has appeared to suggest that his administration is forever thinking up ways of harming the US and its people. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful - ...

Pakistani Nasim-ul-Ghani is the first night-watchman to hit a ton, scoring 101 against England at Lord's in 1962. Australia's Tony Mann was the second when he scored 108 against India at Perth in 1977 ...

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

A New Zealand couple blocked from naming their baby 4Real have instead settled on Superman. So what are the rules on naming children in the UK? Apple, Brooklyn, Zowie, Fifi Trixibelle... celebrity ...

Ronnie O'Sullivan's father Ronnie Sr is freed from prison after serving 18 years for murder.

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

The Swedish government has moved to shut down the website of a far-right political party's newspaper over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The site's host, Levonline, pulled the plug on the website ...

A cinnamon bun that bears a striking likeness to late Catholic nun Mother Teresa was stolen from a US coffeehouse on Christmas Day. The owner arrived to find that the famous flaky pastry had vanished ...

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.

Former world snooker champion Alex Higgins has died aged 61 after a long battle against throat cancer. The 1972 and 1982 world champion, a heavy smoker, was found dead in his flat in Belfast on ...

The moment you see the lob go up in the air you need to turn sideways - as if you were getting ready to serve. As well as ...

Television presenter and prankster Jeremy Beadle has died aged 59. One of ITV's most popular hosts during the 1980s, he was admitted to hospital last week suffering from pneumonia. He was best known ...