Ireland is preparing to mark 100 years since Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set - 16 June 1904. But why is Joyce - and Ulysses in particular - continually held up as such a ...

A man has been ordered to serve at least 30 years behind bars for murdering a man at his Loughborough home while his family were inside. David Holland, a 36-year-old father of three, was killed in ...

Cameroon midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe has died after collapsing during an international match in France. The 28-year-old fell to the ground unchallenged in the 72nd minute of a Confederations Cup ...

The Liverpool rearguard is one of the meanest around, but their defending regularly comes under scrutiny with boss Rafael ...

Colin Waite carried out a series of violent attacks in the decade before his conviction for the murder of Nicola Dixon. Just seven months after killing the 17-year-old A-Level student, Waite broke the ...

Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton has stunned the club by handing in a transfer request. City opened contract talks with the 23-year-old midfielder last week and manager Stuart Pearce insists he ...

There was a 50% increase in the number of people treated with Botox injections in the UK during 2005. Over 50% of those who use Botox expressed a lack of control over the natural ageing process Nearly ...

In the modern age of football there are many different roles and jobs a defender can have. And a wonderful sight in the game is seeing the wing-back fly up and down the touchline terrorising the ...

The Czech Republic came from 2-0 down to win an enthralling game with Holland and go through to the quarter-finals. The Dutch took the lead through a Wilfred Bouma header from a Arjen Robben free-kick ...

So George, where did it all go wrong? The hotel bellboy who delivered champagne to Best's room and found him entertaining a scantily-clad Miss World on a bed covered with his winnings from the casino.

A US prison inmate has been convicted of murdering a former priest at the heart of a sex abuse scandal in Boston. Joseph Druce killed defrocked clergyman John Geoghan in August 2003 while they were ...

Two men have gone on trial charged with trying to kill a police dog handler. Blake Tracey, 39, of no fixed address, and Darren Wisbey, 32, of Chesterton, Cambs, deny the attempted murder of PC John ...