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

Regulation football is played by two teams of 11 players but there is a variety of formations that can be employed. In a ...

The easiest way to tell Test and limited-overs cricket apart is by looking at the players. In Test cricket they always wear ...

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

Sports drinks are really easy to make - not to mention a lot cheaper than buying expensive bottles in shops. All you need are a few ingredients and a little bit of imagination. There are three main ...

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 ...

Australia's opposition Labor Party has questioned the need for female sailors to be given breast enlargements paid for with public money. An armed forces spokesman defended the operations, saying they ...

Archaeologists have revealed the remains of what they say was a "high status" woman of African origin who lived in York during Roman times. Academics say the discovery goes against the common ...

Last year a remarkable exhibit came to light. Hidden in the vaults of a London museum was a scrap of paper containing a few strands of hair. The paper was crudely fashioned into an envelope but the ...

German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof had a brain operation in the 1960s that may have contributed to her becoming one of Europe's most feared urban guerrillas, according to a specialist.

Every US president's popularity among the American public is measured by approval ratings; opinion polls conducted weekly or monthly by a host of polling companies. See below how George W Bush has ...

Art prankster Banksy puts fake rock art of a caveman with a shopping trolley on the walls of the British Museum.