The horror movie, which topped the US box office charts, shows backpackers falling prey to a brutal torture ring at the hands ...

Angolan international Pedro Mantorras has aggravated the knee injury that kept him out of action for Benfica for half of last ...

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 ...

Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980, triggering a bitter eight-year war which destabilised the region and devastated both countries. The then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein claimed as a reason for the ...

Teenage wheelchair tennis stars Gordon Reid and Jordanne Whiley were both in winning form at the North West Challenge in ...

They called it "the profession" - and it was one of the hardest jobs in the world to get. Previously secret documents released from deep within the British justice system reveal the rules, ethics and ...

Barcelona scored twice in the last 14 minutes to beat 10-man Arsenal in the Champions League final in Paris. Sol Campbell's thumping header gave Arsenal a 37th minute lead - after goalkeeper Jens ...

Insults written on a memorial to British war dead in a French cemetery have been deplored in France. One of the slogans used particularly stood out. So why do the French call the British "les rosbifs" ...

West End star Stephanie Lawrence died of natural causes after suffering from liver disease, it has been revealed. A coroner decided there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of the ...

Props and sets from the Wallace and Gromit films have been destroyed in a warehouse blaze. The storage building belonging to Oscar-winning Aardman Animations, contained the company's "entire history", ...

A man in Manchester may have made legal history in the UK after being acquitted of murdering his father because he was sleepwalking at the time. He was found not guilty due to insanity and sent to a ...

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