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 ...

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

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Cliftonville striker Stephen Garrett has been named Carling Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association Player of the ...

A Yorkshire Dales youth hostel which is faced with a huge repair bill is to close. The hostel at Aysgarth Falls was one of 10 ...

Russian explorers have planted their country's flag on the seabed 4,200m (14,000ft) below the North Pole to further Moscow's claims to the Arctic. The rust-proof titanium metal flag was brought by ...

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" ...

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 ...

More than 300 soldiers who were shot for military offences during World War I will receive formal pardons, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. Defence Secretary Des Browne said he would be seeking ...

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 ...

Investigations are continuing into what caused a massive fire that destroyed a leading computer science research unit at the University of Southampton. Gas canisters exploded inside the Mountbatten ...

"I invented a device to scare them off by playing the sound of killer whales, but it's ended up only attracting them more." But failure with this device is in contrast to the success of his first and ...