Luton have moved swiftly to appoint Lil Fuccillo as their new manager to take over from departed Ricky Hill. Fuccillo, like Hill, is a former Luton player and Hatters fans will hope the new manager's ...

Smith, Brown and Wilson are the three most common surnames in Scotland, according to a new report. The General Register Office for Scotland survey said that more than one in every eight last names ...

Moore's Law was never about pure physics or maths or science. The proposition that the Intel co-founder, Gordon Moore, made in a 1965 paper that the number of transistors on a chip could double every ...

Lord Levy also hit the headlines as the Labour Party's chief fundraiser - or, as the press dubbed him, "Lord Cashpoint". Many of those he got to donate were not Labour supporters and they were often ...

England World Cup wicket-keeper Paul Nixon has agreed a new three-year contract with Leicestershire and has been named as the new club captain. Nixon has been leading the Championship side since July ...

Mansfield Town defender Stuart Hicks has been forced to retire from football because of an injury to his right knee. Hicks played in a reserves game last week after a year out on the comeback trail.

A £50bn UK bank rescue plan, global interest rate cuts. Follow how the rescue unfolded on this page. Read BBC Business Editor Robert Peston's viewand BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson's view. Send ...

"The difference between having a Labour government for business to having a Tory government has been fairly negligible," he told Newsnight. Mr Branson said he liked Mr Brown a lot, but said much of ...

Satellite images released by the US State Department show changes in the civilian "safe zone" in northern Sri Lanka, the heart of the conflict between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan forces.

North Korea is one of the most secretive states in the world. Its citizens cannot travel abroad and have little, if any, contact with those who visit their country. The few tourists who do make it are ...

Why not pick a number on the Pictureboard and name the personality, spot the Mystery Guest, or test your knowledge of sport in our Question of Trivia. If you have a sport question you would like ...

More than 71,000 people are dead, missing or buried under rubble following the devastating earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province. Click on the map to find out more about some of the ...