Centuries from Andrew Strauss and Ian Bell helped England build a huge lead and close in on a series victory on day three of the third Test in Napier. Strauss, whose position had ...

Dennis Bergkamp rolls back the years to inspire Arsenal to a superb win over Everton.

The ice-cool Swedish champion Bjorn Borg against the brash John McEnroe who was snapping at his heels for the crown of the world's best player. Borg's four-year reign at Wimbledon seemed over when the ...

Most racquets are strung with synthetic materials such as nylon or even titanium. But the top players prefer to use 'gut' ...

A businessman is found guilty of murdering his girlfriend after a shopping trip to Harvey Nichols.

Carl Wayne, the lead singer of influential 1960s pop group the Move, dies at the age of 61 after battling cancer.

Two senior commanders have been reprimanded after admitting that their negligence caused a nuclear submarine to run aground off Skye. A court martial had been told that the commanders were simulating ...

York Wasps vice-chairman Russell Greenfield has blamed a fall in revenue from sponsorship and low crowds as the reason for the Northern Ford Premiership side folding. The board called time on the club ...

The caution given to Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc, who crossed himself during a match against Rangers, has brought the issue of sectarianism in Scotland back into sharp focus. The rivalry between ...

France's strict brand of secularism has deep historical roots - but some want to soften it, says the BBC's Henri Astier.

Scottish Premier League programme will go ahead as planned, despite Scottish referees withdrawing their labour and heavy snow. There were doubts when officials from Portugal returned home and Polish ...

A schizophrenic artist missing for three years, died after apparently handcuffing himself to a tree, an inquest hears.