Freddy Eastwood's stunning free-kick earns Southend a shock victory over Man Utd in the Carling Cup.

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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.

A teenager obsessed by serial killers and pornography stabbed a nurse more than 70 times as she took a cigarette break, the Old Bailey has heard. Stuart Harling is accused of acting out his fantasies ...

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 ...

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 ...

Olympic champion James Cracknell and TV presenter Ben Fogle survived a capsize en route to third in the Atlantic Rowing Race.