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 ...

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 ...

El cantante estadounidense Bobby Hatfield, integrante del famoso dúo "The Righteous Brothers", falleció este miércoles a los ...

But what happens when the trail goes cold on a homicide? Few people will ever have heard about the deaths of David Ombler and Janet Henderson - Britain's two oldest unsolved murders. Mr Ombler, a ...

El gobierno de Japón confirmó que el cadáver decapitado encontrado el viernes en Bagdad son los restos de Shosei Koda, un ciudadano japonés retenido por militantes islámicos. El primer ministro ...

BBC Middle East analyst Roger Hardy looks back at the legacy of the long and bloody Iran-Iraq war.

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

Naval technician Chris Cranmer has become the first registered Satanist in the armed forces.

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

Writer Terry Pratchett has poked fun at Harry Potter author JK Rowling for saying she did not realise she was writing a fantasy novel. He wrote to the Sunday Times:"I would have thought that the ...

A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a ...

Uruguay's Luis Suarez says "the 'hand of God' now belongs to me" after his goal-line handball that helped his country reach the World Cup semi-finals.