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 ...

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

Steven Gerrard has told Liverpool he wants to leave Anfield after turning down a new £100,000-a-week contract. The 25-year-old captain made his move after Liverpool rejected a £32m bid from ...

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

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

Islamic militant group Hamas has won a surprise victory in Wednesday's Palestinian parliamentary elections. Preliminary results give Hamas 76 of the 132 seats in the chamber, with the ruling Fatah ...

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.

El cantante estadounidense Bobby Hatfield, integrante del famoso dúo "The Righteous Brothers", falleció este miércoles a los ...

But what happens when the trail goes cold on a homicide? Few people will ever have heard about the deaths of David Ombler and Janet Henderson - Britain's two oldest unsolved murders. Mr Ombler, a ...

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 ...

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