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 ...

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 ...

A British man has been killed and about 12 other people injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Qatar. The car bomb blast occurred at the Doha Players theatre outside the capital, Doha, near a ...

Peterborough earned a draw against lowly Torquay thanks to Andy Clarke. Torquay were denied when Simon Rea blocked Jo Kuffour's shot, but Alex Russell made no mistake with a 25-yard strike 11 minutes ...

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

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.

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 ...

The United Nations tribunal in Arusha has convicted three former media executives of being key figures in the media campaign to incite ethnic Hutus to kill Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

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

How the dramatic events of the 1999 Pakistan coup, which saw the overthrow of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, unfolded.

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 ...

Tony Blair says his authority is intact despite his first Commons defeat in a vote on detention of terror suspects.