Like the scrum, an imaginary line is drawn through the foot of the last player in the ruck or maul. Players must either join the ruck or maul or get behind the offside line. A player is offside at a ...

David Leadbetter, coach to many of the world's top players, believes of all the championship courses used to stage golf's Majors, Augusta is the most suited to Woods' game. When firing at full ...

Inverness have taken Stoke City striker Adam Rooney on their pre-season tour to Denmark as he begins a week-long trial. The Republic of Ireland under-21 forward most recently had a loan spell at Bury, ...

Between December 1937 and March 1938 one of the worst massacres in modern times took place. Japanese troops captured the Chinese city of Nanjing and embarked on a campaign of murder, rape and looting.

A long-lost Dalek episode of Doctor Who has been returned to the BBC by an engineer who rescued the film from destruction in the early 1970s. The episode of The Daleks' Master Plan, from 1965, was ...

The bleep test is used by sports coaches to estimate an athlete's VO2 Max (maximum oxygen uptake). The test is often ...

When it comes to the Haka, the northern hemisphrere is infactuated on everything about it. It involves scary faces, lots of ...

On 5 June 1981, the first case study detailing an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases among gay men alerted the world to Aids. Here are some of the key dates in the history of the illness since then.

Worried savers have continued to flock to some Northern Rock bank branches to withdraw their savings, following similar scenes over the weekend. Bank boss Adam Applegarth said people could withdraw ...

Porto shattered Celtic's hopes of winning their first European trophy for 36 years with a dramatic Uefa Cup final victory in Seville. Martin O'Neill's side twice fought back from behind against the ...

London Marathon winner Paula Radcliffe has described her decision to answer a call of nature during the race as "an embarrassing necessity". Radcliffe had to squat by the side of the road at the ...

Thankfully, Uttoxeter passed the inspection and racing gets under way at 1255 at the Staffordshire course. The day's other ...