A major review of security is under way after condoms full of purple flour were thrown at Tony Blair as he faced MPs in the House of Commons. The PM was speaking during his weekly half-hour question ...

The ice-cool Swedish champion Bjorn Borg against the brash John McEnroe who was snapping at his heels for the crown of the world's best player. Borg's four-year reign at Wimbledon seemed over when the ...

Carl Wayne, the lead singer of influential 1960s pop group the Move, dies at the age of 61 after battling cancer.

Most racquets are strung with synthetic materials such as nylon or even titanium. But the top players prefer to use 'gut' ...

Groundbreaking US comedian Richard Pryor dies in California at the age of 65 after a long illness.

France's strict brand of secularism has deep historical roots - but some want to soften it, says the BBC's Henri Astier.

The caution given to Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc, who crossed himself during a match against Rangers, has brought the issue of sectarianism in Scotland back into sharp focus. The rivalry between ...

Retailer Body Shop agrees to be taken over by French cosmetics giant L'Oreal in a £652m deal.

Anthropologists say folklore helped to save the ancient tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar islands from the worst of the Indian Ocean tsunami, reports Subir Bhaumik.

A four-year-old boy fishing off the west Wales coast with his parents was knocked over by a metre-long tropical fish which leapt aboard their boat. The Grey family were fishing off the coast of ...

Six men have been convicted of murdering Mary-Ann Leneghan, who was abducted and killed in Reading after being held in a hotel and subjected to a horrific ordeal. Who were these men?

A schizophrenic artist missing for three years, died after apparently handcuffing himself to a tree, an inquest hears.