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.

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.

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 ...

Sarah Storey and Rachel Morris won their second gold medals for Britain at the 2010 UCI World Paracycling Road Championships in Canada. Riding in the C5 category, defending champion Storey outsprinted ...

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