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

A 23-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering a County Tyrone pensioner less than four months after completing a rape sentence. Trevor William Hamilton, of Concess Road, Sion Mills, had denied ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

At least 26 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya. Sixteen of the dead were Italian military personnel, while two Italian ...

A man who raped a 12-week-old baby has had his minimum jail term changed from six to eight years by appeal judges. The five-year term originally imposed on Alan Webster's accomplice, Tanya French, ...

Armed robbers have stolen the iconic Edvard Munch painting, The Scream, from the Munch Museum in Norway. Two masked thieves pulled the work and another painting, Madonna, off the wall as stunned ...

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 - ...

According to Seema Assefi and Maryanne Garry, two psychologists at Victoria University in New Zealand, memory can be affected by an alcohol placebo. Tests showed that participants in an experiment who ...

He was cleared of murdering Zoe Pennick. Carr, 30, will serve at least 14 years in prison, while a fourth man, Paul Ellis, 31, was cleared of moving Katie Baxter's body. The court heard during the ...

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.