1) At the precise moment when Americans needed to know more and more about events and issues beyond their borders, they were ...

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A jury has found Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy guilty of assaulting a nightclub worker. The pop star has been sentenced to complete 120 hours of unpaid community service and must also pay her ...

0921 Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the final day of Labour's conference in Manchester. Today's big event is deputy leader Harriet Harman's closing speech. There will also be addresses by ...

Three members of the BBC Arabic team in Tripoli were arrested, blindfolded and handcuffed and beaten while reporting on the situation in Libya. The journalists were threatened with mock executions ...

Alfredo Di Stefano, Daniel Passarella, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Hernan Crespo, Javier Saviola, Javier Zanetti, Juan Sebastian Veron, Mario Kempes, Omar Sivori ...

If you dream of owning your own house, then trading a red paper clip over the internet might not be the obvious way of doing it. But Canadian Kyle MacDonald has achieved exactly that and will see his ...

Porto shattered Celtic's hopes of winning their first European trophy for 36 years with a dramatic Uefa Cup final victory in Seville. Martin O'Neill's side twice fought back from behind against the ...

Sally Clark - the solicitor wrongly jailed for murdering her two sons - has died, her family has announced. Mrs Clark, 42, was jailed in 1999 for killing her 11-week-old son Christopher in December ...

Leigh had declared The Wall "his event" and showed it as he flew to the top. He was joined in the final by Tom and Sheldon to ...

A former US guard says he unwittingly gave Nazi leader Hermann Goering the poison he used to commit suicide. Goering killed himself only hours before he was scheduled to be hanged in 1946, following ...

Being able to recognise the extra 50 most-used words, as recommended by the literacy strategy for the first two years of schooling, meant children gained an understanding of about 2% more of the texts ...