Campaigners are calling for a ban on a device that emits a high-pitched sound to disperse groups of teenagers, saying it is not a fair way to treat them. There are estimated to be 3,500 of the devices ...

Cardiff City boss Dave Jones has been named as the Championship's manager of the month for August. The Bluebirds have collected 13 league points from a possible 15 - beating Barnsley, Coventry, Leeds ...

The caution given to Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc, who crossed himself during a match against Rangers, has brought the issue of sectarianism in Scotland back into sharp focus. The rivalry between ...

This year marks 30 years since the Notting Hill Carnival riot in 1976 - an important year for race relations and one which saw carnival hit the headlines - albeit for the wrong reasons. 1976 was bang ...

An official report has concluded that former GP Harold Shipman killed at least 215 patients over more than 25 years. His confirmed victims, all ruled unlawfully killed at the inquiry, or for whose ...

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have released images of a man they believe abducted their daughter in May from a Portuguese resort. The artist's sketches show a man with dark, greasy ...

The laws of the LBW dismissalBatsmen can create doubt in an umpire's mind by taking a big stride down the pitch with their front foot. By moving further down the pitch, the batsman lengthens the ...

Summary: Saddam Hussein returns to court, saying he has been brought in forcibly from his hospital bed. He says if he is found guilty and condemned to die, he would like to be shot, not hanged.

A pensioner left with a family secret ever since a royal was killed in a wartime plane crash has spoken out to protect her dead uncle's memory. Margaret Harris, from Prestatyn, is the niece of the ...

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." Winston Churchill's talismanic speech about the onset of the cold war has been made ...

His family always maintained his innocence but DNA taken from his exhumed body matched two samples from the crime scene. One of the first exhumations of a suspect was that of former nightclub doorman ...

"The average African is poorer than during the age of colonialism. In the 1960s African elites/rulers, instead of focusing on development, took surplus for their own enormous entourages of civil ...