Actor Pete Postlethwaite, who earned an Oscar nomination for his role in <em>In the Name of the Father</em>, died aged 64 following a lengthy illness.
Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti will decide whether to make a centre-back one of his primary January transfer targets.
About 40 prisoners took part in rioting at Ford men’s prison near Arundel, southern England, that began around midnight on New Year’s Eve.
Premier League pacesetters Manchester United and Manchester City ground out wins to stay clear at the top on Saturday.
Ricky Ponting was "devastated" to be ruled out of the fifth and final Ashes Test against England in Sydney due to complications with his broken finger
All rounder Shane Watson conceded Australia had all but lost the Ashes on Tuesday and admitted the side’s abysmal performance in the fourth Test.
England were on the verge of retaining the Ashes after feeble Australian batting left the fourth Melbourne Test at their mercy on Tuesday.
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/ 27 December 2010
Jonathan Trott posted his third century in five Ashes Tests to take England closer to a historic series victory in the fourth Test against Australia.
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/ 27 December 2010
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting was fined 40% of his match fee by the ICC on Monday after clashing heatedly with the match umpires.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting’s frustration over a TV referral decision boiled over into an ugly row with umpire Aleem Dar.
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/ 27 December 2010
A Bulgarian, an Argentine and a Dutchman lit up the start of England’s traditional festive fixture bonanza.
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/ 27 December 2010
Whitehall documents written in 1970s and marked ‘personal and top secret’ show logic of British Cold War deterrent.
WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange said in an interview published on Sunday he had signed deals for his autobiography worth more than £1-million.
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/ 25 December 2010
Extradition papers have been processed by the justice department, clearing the way for the extradition from the UK of murder-accused Shrien Dewani.
UK’s coalition government was hit by fresh evidence of internal tensions on Thursday from a newspaper sting that has already caused a major row.
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/ 22 December 2010
Russia on Wednesday blamed "unfriendly" behaviour by Britain for sparking the tit-for-tat expulsion of a diplomat from each side.
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/ 21 December 2010
A man who dubbed himself "the crossbow cannibal" was jailed for life on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to the gruesome murder of three women.
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/ 21 December 2010
Parkinson’s is a slow but inevitable process. It’s hard living with it on a daily basis.
Snow and freezing temperatures continued to ground flights to and from Britain on Tuesday.
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/ 21 December 2010
Tim Cahill and Leighton Baines stole the show from Carlos Tevez as 10-man Everton clinched a 2-1 victory over Manchester City.
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/ 21 December 2010
England opener Alastair Cook played down a growing row over Australia’s move to change pitches for the vital Melbourne Ashes Test.
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/ 20 December 2010
Frustrated travellers in Europe expressed fury on Monday at transportation officials’ inability to clear snow and ice from planes and runways.
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/ 20 December 2010
Local drug police sabotage expensive scanning equipment and tip off smugglers to avoid detection.
Heavy snow disrupted the Christmas holiday getaway in Europe, forcing the continent’s biggest airports to close and leaving passengers stranded.
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/ 19 December 2010
Britain was hit by more blizzards that shut its biggest airports on the busiest weekend for travellers before Christmas and hit road and rail traffic.
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/ 19 December 2010
Australia skipper Ricky Ponting hopes to fit to play in the fourt Ashes Test match in Melbourne despite fracturing a finger.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday it was "increasingly likely" the US would try to extradite him.
WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange has declared that he is the victim of a smear campaign after being freed on bail over rape allegations.
Roy Hodgson says he retains the support of Liverpool’s owners and does not fear for his future.
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/ 17 December 2010
Avram Grant appears to be on borrowed time after it emerged that West Ham are giving consideration to replacing their manager with Sam Allardyce.
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/ 17 December 2010
Christmas can often be a cruel time for managers and the January transfer window has merely exacerbated the fact.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, fighting extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, walked free on bail from a British jail on Thursday.