An exhausted Paula Radcliffe fails to finish in Athens as Japan's Mizuki Noguchi wins the women's marathon.

Islamic militant group Hamas has won a surprise victory in Wednesday's Palestinian parliamentary elections. Preliminary results give Hamas 76 of the 132 seats in the chamber, with the ruling Fatah ...

A British man has been killed and about 12 other people injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Qatar. The car bomb blast occurred at the Doha Players theatre outside the capital, Doha, near a ...

Well-armed ethnic Hema fighters have taken control of the troubled town of Bunia in north-eastern Democratic Republic of ...

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 ...

Forty years ago this week, the world's first cash machine was installed in north London. Meet John Shepherd-Barron, the Scotsman who invented it.

Under Chad Varah's leadership, the Samaritans saved thousands of lives, but he felt the modern movement had betrayed its founding principles.

The United Nations tribunal in Arusha has convicted three former media executives of being key figures in the media campaign to incite ethnic Hutus to kill Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

Archaeologists excavating part of a Roman villa in Somerset have unearthed a mosaic of Daphne and Apollo. The mosaic, which dates back to the 4th Century, is part of the Dinnington Roman Villa site ...

Fulham eased their relegation worries with a shock victory over runaway Premiership leaders Chelsea. The home side were denied a penalty when Moritz Volz went down under a challenge from John Terry ...

A teenager obsessed by serial killers and pornography stabbed a nurse more than 70 times as she took a cigarette break, the Old Bailey has heard. Stuart Harling is accused of acting out his fantasies ...

Cases of rape of young girls are on the increase in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe's most prominent organisation fighting child sexual abuse is confronting traditional healers to take action over the myth that ...