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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Groundbreaking US comedian Richard Pryor dies in California at the age of 65 after a long illness.

Six US citizens who, as children, were used in an experiment that tried to induce stuttering have been awarded nearly $1m (£500,000) in compensation. In 1939, the plaintiffs - all orphans in state ...

Sarah Storey and Rachel Morris won their second gold medals for Britain at the 2010 UCI World Paracycling Road Championships in Canada. Riding in the C5 category, defending champion Storey outsprinted ...