A 23-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering a County Tyrone pensioner less than four months after completing a rape sentence. Trevor William Hamilton, of Concess Road, Sion Mills, had denied ...

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 ...

Scotland celebrate sporting glory after being crowned world champions of elephant polo in Nepal.

Steven Gerrard has told Liverpool he wants to leave Anfield after turning down a new £100,000-a-week contract. The 25-year-old captain made his move after Liverpool rejected a £32m bid from ...

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.

In his latest gaffe, President George W Bush has appeared to suggest that his administration is forever thinking up ways of harming the US and its people. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful - ...

Winston Churchill's pet macaw is alive and well, and still parroting the obscenities the great man taught him.

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

A British soldier who bludgeoned a Danish tour guide to death in Cyprus has been freed from jail early. Allan Ford, 38, was one of three men jailed for 25 years on the island for killing Louise Jensen ...

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

How the dramatic events of the 1999 Pakistan coup, which saw the overthrow of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, unfolded.

Sarah Parkinson, the writer and producer wife of comedian Paul Merton, dies of cancer at the age of 41.