Cliftonville striker Stephen Garrett has been named Carling Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association Player of the ...

A Yorkshire Dales youth hostel which is faced with a huge repair bill is to close. The hostel at Aysgarth Falls was one of 10 ...

Writer Terry Pratchett has poked fun at Harry Potter author JK Rowling for saying she did not realise she was writing a fantasy novel. He wrote to the Sunday Times:"I would have thought that the ...

The horror movie, which topped the US box office charts, shows backpackers falling prey to a brutal torture ring at the hands ...

They called it "the profession" - and it was one of the hardest jobs in the world to get. Previously secret documents released from deep within the British justice system reveal the rules, ethics and ...

Angolan international Pedro Mantorras has aggravated the knee injury that kept him out of action for Benfica for half of last ...

"I invented a device to scare them off by playing the sound of killer whales, but it's ended up only attracting them more." But failure with this device is in contrast to the success of his first and ...

An Italian appeals court has acquitted two leading British Formula One engineers of the manslaughter of the Brazilian legend Ayrton Senna. The court ruled that ex-Williams chief designer Adrian Newey ...

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Props and sets from the Wallace and Gromit films have been destroyed in a warehouse blaze. The storage building belonging to Oscar-winning Aardman Animations, contained the company's "entire history", ...

Both the conjoined Iranian twins have died during a marathon operation to separate them. Ladan Bijani was the first to succumb, shortly after surgeons separated her head from that of her sister. Laleh ...

Insults written on a memorial to British war dead in a French cemetery have been deplored in France. One of the slogans used particularly stood out. So why do the French call the British "les rosbifs" ...