Scottish Premier League programme will go ahead as planned, despite Scottish referees withdrawing their labour and heavy snow. There were doubts when officials from Portugal returned home and Polish ...

York Wasps vice-chairman Russell Greenfield has blamed a fall in revenue from sponsorship and low crowds as the reason for the Northern Ford Premiership side folding. The board called time on the club ...

Groundbreaking US comedian Richard Pryor dies in California at the age of 65 after a long illness.

The ice-cool Swedish champion Bjorn Borg against the brash John McEnroe who was snapping at his heels for the crown of the world's best player. Borg's four-year reign at Wimbledon seemed over when the ...

Most racquets are strung with synthetic materials such as nylon or even titanium. But the top players prefer to use 'gut' ...

Six US citizens who, as children, were used in an experiment that tried to induce stuttering have been awarded nearly $1m (£500,000) in compensation. In 1939, the plaintiffs - all orphans in state ...

France's strict brand of secularism has deep historical roots - but some want to soften it, says the BBC's Henri Astier.

The BBC's National Lottery show was briefly delayed on Saturday evening after protesters invaded the studio and chanted slogans. Presenter Eamonn Holmes was led from the stage as Fathers 4 Justice ...

The goverment is considering invoking the charge of treason for outspoken Islamist clerics. It is unlikely to happen, according to BBC legal affairs analyst Jon Silverman. BBC News website's Katherine ...

Actor David Hemmings, star of cult 1960s films Blow-Up and Barbarella, has died aged 62, his agent has said. He suffered a heart attack at the end of a day filming a new movie called Samantha's Child ...

A four-year-old boy fishing off the west Wales coast with his parents was knocked over by a metre-long tropical fish which leapt aboard their boat. The Grey family were fishing off the coast of ...

Scientists have made a breakthrough in their understanding of the genetics behind human eye colour. They found that just a few "letters" out of the six billion that make up the genetic code are ...