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

Islamic militant group Hamas has won a surprise victory in Wednesday's Palestinian parliamentary elections. Preliminary results give Hamas 76 of the 132 seats in the chamber, with the ruling Fatah ...

A British Everest summiteer has become the first man to fly higher than the top of the world in a powered paraglider. Bear Grylls, who at the age of 23 became the youngest British climber to scale ...

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

Mr Shepherd-Barron says he and his wife realised the importance of his invention only when they visited Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. They watched a farmer arriving on a bullock cart, who removed ...

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

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

But what happens when the trail goes cold on a homicide? Few people will ever have heard about the deaths of David Ombler and Janet Henderson - Britain's two oldest unsolved murders. Mr Ombler, a ...

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

El gobierno de Japón confirmó que el cadáver decapitado encontrado el viernes en Bagdad son los restos de Shosei Koda, un ciudadano japonés retenido por militantes islámicos. El primer ministro ...

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 ...

South Africa v Sri Lanka A, Colombo Match drawn ...