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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Kaprun inferno - at one of Austria's most popular ski resorts - was the country's worst fire since World War II. On the morning of 11 November 2000, 167 men, women and children boarded a funicular ...