Middlesbrough midfielder Gaizka Mendieta could still leave the Riverside by the end of the season. Mendieta, 32, failed to seal a move away during the transfer window but could be heading to America, ...

About 400 people turned up at the City of Belfast Crematorium on the outskirts of east Belfast, for its open day on Sunday. The council are hoped that by educating people, cremation will become a more ...

Tottenham boss Martin Jol has been named Barclays Manager of the Month for December. Jol's award follows a fine run of form which saw Spurs collect 13 out of 15 points on offer in the month. Spurs' ...

Wildlife officials say in the last two years elephants have killed at least 180 people in Assam and Meghalaya. And more than 200 elephants have been killed by angry villagers during the last six years ...

Former Argentine President Carlos Menem has launched a new political group within the Peronist party and vowed to return to Argentina soon. Mr Menem, now living in Chile, sent a recorded message to ...

Stefan Pakeerah was beaten and stabbed to death by Warren Leblanc, 17, but the motive, say police, was robbery. Leicestershire police have confirmed a copy of the game was found, but in Stefan's' ...

Aston Villa midfielder Patrik Berger has agreed to sign a one-year contract extension at Villa Park. The 33-year-old Czech international will sign the deal when he returns for pre-season training in ...

Hundreds of daredevils have taken to the skies above Bangkok to set a world record and mark the queen's birthday. The skydivers swooped in their hundreds out of six transport planes, more than 2,000 ...

The first medical trial in Britain of a vaccine against the bird flu virus H5N1 has begun in Oxford. This is an experimental vaccine against a virus with deadly potential. To see how well it works the ...

Moore's Law was never about pure physics or maths or science. The proposition that the Intel co-founder, Gordon Moore, made in a 1965 paper that the number of transistors on a chip could double every ...

F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is reportedly considering keeping the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours for 2008. Ecclestone has agreed to include the venue for next year, and possibly for 2009, after a ...

Hull City manager Peter Taylor says he intends to talk to Southend United defender Leon Cort about a possible move to the newly promoted Tigers. The former Shrimpers boss has voiced his interest in ...