York Wasps vice-chairman Russell Greenfield has blamed a fall in revenue from sponsorship and low crowds as the reason for the Northern Ford Premiership side folding. The board called time on the club ...

Scottish Premier League programme will go ahead as planned, despite Scottish referees withdrawing their labour and heavy snow. There were doubts when officials from Portugal returned home and Polish ...

The ice-cool Swedish champion Bjorn Borg against the brash John McEnroe who was snapping at his heels for the crown of the world's best player. Borg's four-year reign at Wimbledon seemed over when the ...

Groundbreaking black US comedian Richard Pryor has died after almost 20 years with multiple sclerosis. He died at the age of 65 of a heart attack at Encino hospital near Los Angeles, his wife Jennifer ...

A major review of security is under way after condoms full of purple flour were thrown at Tony Blair as he faced MPs in the House of Commons. The PM was speaking during his weekly half-hour question ...

Most racquets are strung with synthetic materials such as nylon or even titanium. But the top players prefer to use 'gut' ...

Carl Wayne, the lead singer of influential 1960s pop group the Move, dies at the age of 61 after battling cancer.

France's strict brand of secularism has deep historical roots - but some want to soften it, says the BBC's Henri Astier.

The caution given to Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc, who crossed himself during a match against Rangers, has brought the issue of sectarianism in Scotland back into sharp focus. The rivalry between ...

Retailer Body Shop agrees to be taken over by French cosmetics giant L'Oreal in a £652m deal.

Six US citizens who, as children, were used in an experiment that tried to induce stuttering have been awarded nearly $1m (£500,000) in compensation. In 1939, the plaintiffs - all orphans in state ...

Anthropologists say folklore helped to save the ancient tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar islands from the worst of the Indian Ocean tsunami, reports Subir Bhaumik.