The funeral of singer Gene Pitney has been held in his home town of Somers, in Connecticut. Pitney died on 5 April at the age of 65 of natural causes, hours after coming off stage during his UK tour.

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.

El cantante estadounidense Bobby Hatfield, integrante del famoso dúo "The Righteous Brothers", falleció este miércoles a los ...

Cases of rape of young girls are on the increase in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe's most prominent organisation fighting child sexual abuse is confronting traditional healers to take action over the myth that ...

The chairman of the secretive - he prefers the word private - Bilderberg Group is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon, corporate director and former European Commissioner. In his office, on a ...

Sports drinks are really easy to make - not to mention a lot cheaper than buying expensive bottles in shops. All you need are a few ingredients and a little bit of imagination. There are three main ...

Shinichi Fujimura, who was known as "God's hands" because of his ability to uncover ancient objects, was caught on camera burying his "discoveries" before digging them up again as new Stone Age finds.

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 ...

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 ...

Ten years after Matthew Tassio, 22, was gored bull running at the festival in northern Spain, one spectator recalls the day he watched the young American die.

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The HGC's report, compiled following a national consultation exercise, does not talk about individual family's cases. But it does consider the welfare of a child born as a saviour sibling, as part of ...