The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has been discussing plans to set permanent borders for Israel with his British ...

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

In his latest gaffe, President George W Bush has appeared to suggest that his administration is forever thinking up ways of harming the US and its people. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful - ...

Well-armed ethnic Hema fighters have taken control of the troubled town of Bunia in north-eastern Democratic Republic of ...

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 ...

Winston Churchill's pet macaw is alive and well, and still parroting the obscenities the great man taught him.

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 British soldier who bludgeoned a Danish tour guide to death in Cyprus has been freed from jail early. Allan Ford, 38, was one of three men jailed for 25 years on the island for killing Louise Jensen ...

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.

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 ...

Sarah Parkinson, the writer and producer wife of comedian Paul Merton, dies of cancer at the age of 41.