1) At the precise moment when Americans needed to know more and more about events and issues beyond their borders, they were ...

Three members of the BBC Arabic team in Tripoli were arrested, blindfolded and handcuffed and beaten while reporting on the situation in Libya. The journalists were threatened with mock executions ...

0921 Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the final day of Labour's conference in Manchester. Today's big event is deputy leader Harriet Harman's closing speech. There will also be addresses by ...

If you dream of owning your own house, then trading a red paper clip over the internet might not be the obvious way of doing it. But Canadian Kyle MacDonald has achieved exactly that and will see his ...

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Alfredo Di Stefano, Daniel Passarella, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Hernan Crespo, Javier Saviola, Javier Zanetti, Juan Sebastian Veron, Mario Kempes, Omar Sivori ...

Leigh had declared The Wall "his event" and showed it as he flew to the top. He was joined in the final by Tom and Sheldon to ...

Paul Robinson was left embarrassed as England crashed to a dismal defeat against Croatia in the Euro 2008 qualifier in Zagreb. Eduardo's header had given Croatia a deserved 61st-minute lead before ...

1808 Derek Simpson, joint general secretary of the Unite union says: "Today's pre-Budget report gives Britain a reason to be ...

Firefighters freed the 47-year-old woman after paramedics were called to the Wigginton Road plant on Monday. A North Yorkshire Fire Service spokesman said: "The woman was trapped between the fork lift ...

A bogus forensic psychologist who supplied evidence in hundreds of court cases has been jailed for five years. Gene Morrison, 48, of Hyde, was described in court as a charlatan who had tricked judges, ...

A former US guard says he unwittingly gave Nazi leader Hermann Goering the poison he used to commit suicide. Goering killed himself only hours before he was scheduled to be hanged in 1946, following ...