An exhausted Paula Radcliffe fails to finish in Athens as Japan's Mizuki Noguchi wins the women's marathon.

Scotland celebrate sporting glory after being crowned world champions of elephant polo in Nepal.

Islamic militant group Hamas has won a surprise victory in Wednesday's Palestinian parliamentary elections. Preliminary results give Hamas 76 of the 132 seats in the chamber, with the ruling Fatah ...

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column. The Top Gear host revealed his account numbers after rubbishing the furore over the loss of 25 ...

Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn says he believes the new points system will encourage better racing in Formula 1. A new spread of points for 2010 increases the difference between first and second ...

Olympic champion James Cracknell and TV presenter Ben Fogle survived a capsize en route to third in the Atlantic Rowing Race.

Winston Churchill's pet macaw is alive and well, and still parroting the obscenities the great man taught him.

A British Everest summiteer has become the first man to fly higher than the top of the world in a powered paraglider. Bear Grylls, who at the age of 23 became the youngest British climber to scale ...

Forty years ago this week, the world's first cash machine was installed in north London. Meet John Shepherd-Barron, the Scotsman who invented it.

The United Nations tribunal in Arusha has convicted three former media executives of being key figures in the media campaign to incite ethnic Hutus to kill Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

Tony Blair says his authority is intact despite his first Commons defeat in a vote on detention of terror suspects.

The funeral of singer Gene Pitney has been held in his home town of Somers, in Connecticut. Pitney died on 5 April at the age of 65 of natural causes, hours after coming off stage during his UK tour.