Customers knew Jaycee Lee Dugard as Allissa and believed her to be kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido's daughter, the San ...

Some five-hundred members of Brazil's landless peasants' movement MST have invaded a farm owned by the Brazilian ambassador to Italy Paulo Tarso Flecha de Lima. No incidents of violence were reported.

Efforts to renegotiate the European deal on fishing quotas are being launched at Holyrood by the Scottish National Party. SNP ...

A hockey team is made up of a squad of 16 players. At any one time, 11 players including the goalkeeper are allowed on the pitch. The way the players arrange themselves depends on the system of play ...

The hands to knees sit up is a good way of working your abdominal muscles. Lie on your back with your knees bent, making sure your feet are flat on the floor.

Firefighters have rescued a frightened dog which had become trapped on the window ledge of a house in Essex. They arrived at ...

Michelle Elliott, the director of charity Kidscape, which campaigns to keep children safe from harm or abuse, told BBC Five ...

The top four sides (Ireland, Canada, Netherlands, Kenya) qualify for the 2011 World Cup and the top six (the aforementioned ...

Britain will settle its World War II debts to the US and Canada when it pays two final instalments before the close of 2006, the Treasury has said. The payments of $83.25m (£42.5m) to the US and US$22 ...

The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter. He said the decision to take action in Iraq should have ...

A bogus forensic psychologist who supplied evidence in hundreds of court cases has been jailed for five years. Gene Morrison, 48, of Hyde, was described in court as a charlatan who had tricked judges, ...

The former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, has been hanged in northern Baghdad for crimes against humanity. Iraqi state TV showed images of Saddam Hussein going to the gallows before dawn in a building ...