Heikki Kovalainen is hopeful he has joined the most competitive of the new teams in the 2010 Formula 1 season. The Finn, who ...

An exhausted Paula Radcliffe fails to finish in Athens as Japan's Mizuki Noguchi wins the women's marathon.

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 ...

Forty years ago this week, the world's first cash machine was installed in north London. Meet John Shepherd-Barron, the Scotsman who invented it.

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

Well-armed ethnic Hema fighters have taken control of the troubled town of Bunia in north-eastern Democratic Republic of ...

Peterborough earned a draw against lowly Torquay thanks to Andy Clarke. Torquay were denied when Simon Rea blocked Jo Kuffour's shot, but Alex Russell made no mistake with a 25-yard strike 11 minutes ...

Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn says he believes the new points system will encourage better racing in Formula 1. A new spread of points for 2010 increases the difference between first and second ...

The United Nations tribunal in Arusha has convicted three former media executives of being key figures in the media campaign to incite ethnic Hutus to kill Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

Archaeologists excavating part of a Roman villa in Somerset have unearthed a mosaic of Daphne and Apollo. The mosaic, which dates back to the 4th Century, is part of the Dinnington Roman Villa site ...

A British man has been killed and about 12 other people injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Qatar. The car bomb blast occurred at the Doha Players theatre outside the capital, Doha, near a ...

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