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 ...

Giant front-man Leo Fortune-West has signed for Doncaster after his release from Cardiff City. The 32-year-old striker joined the Bluebirds for £300,000 from Rotherham three years ago, but he was not ...

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 ...

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 ...

BBC World Cup Photo Album. Fifa World Cup 2010. World Cup 2010 Teams. Algeria; Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Cameroon; Chile ; Denmark; England; France; Germany; Ghana; Greece; Ho ...

There are a few differences between the pull and hook shot. Where the pull is played to a ball around waist height, the hook is played to a short delivery between chest and head height. A word of ...

Pupils at a school in Bo'ness have been led to safety after a fire broke out in the gymnasium. The evacuation began after flames were seen in the gym hall at Bo'ness Academy in th ...

With new audiences switching on to cricket because of a gripping Ashes series, questions have been raining in asking about the particular quirks of the game. So we thought we would set the ball ...

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 ...

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' ...

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 ...

Damaged roadwork signs are to be repaired in prison in an initiative to cut resource wastage and save money. Hertfordshire Highways will send its broken steel temporary signs to The Mount Prison, ...