Australia captain Ricky Ponting chose to look at the series performance as a whole after his team completed a 3-0 sweep in ...

A Fathers 4 Justice campaigner dressed as Batman is staging a protest on the Buckingham Palace balcony. Jason Hatch, 33, entered the grounds and scaled a wall at 1420 BST. Police moved a crane and ...

When Hoover's free flights promotion was launched to a wide-eyed British public in August 1992, it seemed too good to be true. Over the next 21 months, many Hoover customers discovered it was. About ...

Some say we should drink at least eight glasses of water a day Some claim drinking eight glasses of water a day leads to good health, while reading in dim light damages eyesight. Others believe we ...

A 'no ball' is called if a bowler has over-stepped the popping crease. This is signalled by an arm raised at shoulder height. There are several types of no ball. The most common one is the foot-fault, ...

Marc-Vivien Foe's father Martin is upset with the player's widow Martin Foe, father of the late Marc-Vivien, has slammed the ...

Advanced Digital Communications is one of four firms working in a joint venture with President Fidel Castro's government to explore Cuban waters, which hold hundreds of treasure-laden ships from the ...

Actor James Doohan, who played the chief engineer Montgomery Scott in Star Trek, has died at the age of 85. Doohan, whose role was immortalised in the line "Beam me up, Scotty", had been suffering ...

A teenager who set fire to his pregnant ex-girlfriend's home has been jailed for six years at Cardiff Crown Court. Martin Grew, 19, set alight ex-girlfriend Rachel Williams' family home in the city, ...

Born John Leslie Stott in Edinburgh in 1965, he was destined for a career in music technology until a television producer told him he would look great on screen. An encouraged Leslie (he dropped the ...

Nathan McCullum says he is keen to help the "quality" Lancashire side he has joined in Twenty20 cricket. The New Zealand ...

A heat shield scan has shown there is no damage to the space shuttle Nasa has given the green light for Discovery to attempt a landing on Monday, after an inspection showed no signs of damage to the ...