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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A prop's main role is to scrummage, support in the line-out, tackle and hit the rucks and mauls. No matter how fast and powerful the game becomes, a prop will always be a prop. The difference nowadays ...

Teams start a match with the same resources - the number of overs they receive and number of wickets in hand. If a match is shortened once it is started, so the resources are reduced. For example, if ...

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.

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El primer ministro de Japón, Junichiro Koizumi, realizó este lunes otra controvertida visita a un santuario en Tokio que honra a los soldados japoneses caídos en guerra. El sepulcro de Yasukuni es con ...

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A Natty Petrosino se la conoce como la "Madre Teresa" argentina. "Para ayudar no hace falta formar parte de una institución o tener dinero, basta con amar al prójimo", dice a BBC Estudio Abierto Natty ...