Cardiff City boss Dave Jones has been named as the Championship's manager of the month for August. The Bluebirds have collected 13 league points from a possible 15 - beating Barnsley, Coventry, Leeds ...

This year marks 30 years since the Notting Hill Carnival riot in 1976 - an important year for race relations and one which saw carnival hit the headlines - albeit for the wrong reasons. 1976 was bang ...

The familiar sight of queues of cars snaking along a north Wales coastal road in summer will become a thing of the past when an historic toll is abolished this weekend. After nearly 200 years, the ...

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 ...

The BLU-114/B is a form of cluster bomb. That is, it scatters numerous "sub-munitions" in the form of canisters about the size of a drinks can. These in turn sprinkle highly conductive strands of ...

A gang member has been jailed for life for the murder of a man who was working to turn young people away from crime. Colin Brown, 38, was shot and stabbed as he intervened in a dispute on the Grange ...

Cameroon midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe has died after collapsing during an international match in France. The 28-year-old fell to the ground unchallenged in the 72nd minute of a Confederations Cup ...

The Liverpool rearguard is one of the meanest around, but their defending regularly comes under scrutiny with boss Rafael ...

Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton has stunned the club by handing in a transfer request. City opened contract talks with the 23-year-old midfielder last week and manager Stuart Pearce insists he ...

The BBC's National Lottery show was briefly delayed on Saturday evening after protesters invaded the studio and chanted slogans. Presenter Eamonn Holmes was led from the stage as Fathers 4 Justice ...

The Kaprun inferno - at one of Austria's most popular ski resorts - was the country's worst fire since World War II. On the morning of 11 November 2000, 167 men, women and children boarded a funicular ...

Botox treatment to rid yourself of unsightly wrinkles may be addictive, research has found. Doctors found 40% of patients using Botox expressed a compulsive desire for further treatments. People need ...