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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

How the dramatic events of the 1999 Pakistan coup, which saw the overthrow of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, unfolded.

Peterborough earned a draw against lowly Torquay thanks to Andy Clarke. Torquay were denied when Simon Rea blocked Jo Kuffour's shot, but Alex Russell made no mistake with a 25-yard strike 11 minutes ...