QPR have been given a cash boost after the family of the world's fifth richest man bought a 20% stake in the club. The son-in-law of Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, who is reportedly worth £50bn, ...

Actor Jack Wild, who played The Artful Dodger in 1968 film Oliver!, has died at the age of 53. Wild was nominated for an Oscar when he was just 16 for the role. He also starred in late-1960s US ...

Known as Lord Haw Haw because of his nasal drawl, Joyce was a fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the UK during World War II. He defected to Germany, but at the end of the war was ...

They are designed to quickly replace the fluids which are lost by sweating. They also provide a boost of carbohydrates. The body prefers to use glucose as its source of energy. Sometimes it is better ...

In a park in the Latvian capital Riga, a small group of protesters gathers, all Russian, some wearing paper hats inscribed with the word "Alien". Latvian police carry out a small, bureaucratic piece ...

Rangers manager Paul Le Guen has left the club by mutual consent. Chairman David Murray said: "Having met with Paul it was clear that in the interests of the club we agreed jointly to him stepping ...

Ireland is preparing to mark 100 years since Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set - 16 June 1904. But why is Joyce - and Ulysses in particular - continually held up as such a ...

Children growing up in refugee camps in Peshawar, in the north of Pakistan, are being drugged by their parents to leave themselves free to work undisturbed in the carpet factories. The Afghan men and ...

Twenty-five-year-old Australian Michael O'Brien set the trend rolling in 1974. O'Brien was the first known streaker at a major event and performed his antics during an England - France Rugby Union ...

The Army was wrong to allow two soldiers convicted of murdering a Belfast teenager back into its ranks, according to a military watchdog. The Independent Assessor of Military Complaints Procedures, ...

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has been fined £10,000 for making misleading claims about a collection of men's clothing. The high street retailer admitted five breaches of the Trade Descriptions Act by falsely ...

Calls to extend the Tube to a deprived area of north London have won the backing of the mayor. Ken Livingstone visited north Tottenham on Wednesday to see if the Victoria Line could be extended from ...