The IRA has apologised for the grief caused to the families of the so-called Disappeared. Its statement on Friday follows confirmation that the remains found recently on a beach in the Irish Republic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two men exposed as hooligans on a BBC documentary have been jailed for planning football violence. Jason Marriner, 33, from Feltham, Middlesex, and Andrew Frain, 36, from Reading, were filmed ...

Called a coloboma, the defect can appear as a keyhole shape A girl resembling Madeleine McCann has been spotted in France by a woman who says she had the same eye blemish as the missing girl's. Police ...

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Promoter Frank Warren has denied rumours of a split with IBF light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton. Hatton's contract with ...

The Epic Of Gilgamesh - written by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorated the life of the ruler of the city of Uruk, from which Iraq gets its name. Now, a ...

Wales internationals Gavin Thomas, Iestyn Thomas and Matthew Rees have all signed for an extra three years. Scotland lock ...

Television presenter and prankster Jeremy Beadle has died aged 59. One of ITV's most popular hosts during the 1980s, he was admitted to hospital last week suffering from pneumonia. He was best known ...

The final cost of the Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood has been put at £414.4m. MSPs were given a final report on the "Holyrood Project" which showed that the price tag was some £16m cheaper ...

Both the conjoined Iranian twins have died during a marathon operation to separate them. Ladan Bijani was the first to succumb, shortly after surgeons separated her head from that of her sister. Laleh ...