Julian Corlett won the opening round of the Manx Mountain Bike Club's National Championships, held at Tholt-y-Will plantation ...

Capsaicin was tested on cultures of human lung cancer cells and on pancreatic cancers. Lead researcher Dr Timothy Bates said: "As these compounds attack the very heart of the tumour cells, we believe ...

The rounds are pretty intense so there is a break of one minute between each one. This allows the boxers to sit down in their opposite corners and take a breather . Their trainer can give them a pep ...

Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report. Passers-by were too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far ...

Renowned surgeon Steadman operated on Bullard for a second time in December and told BBC Sport back then: "There's no ...

The General Medical Council has struck off paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow after his "misleading" evidence in the Sally Clark case. The GMC announced on Friday that Sir Roy had been found ...

The rioting which began in Brixton, in the south London borough of Lambeth, in April 1981 shocked the nation. For three days, rioters - predominately young, black men - fought police, attacked ...

A man with learning difficulties who was tortured and murdered by a gang was failed by "every part of the service system" in Cornwall, a review has said. The serious case review by the Cornwall Adult ...

Elvis Presley's roots can be traced back to a village in Aberdeenshire, according to a Scottish author. Allan Morrison, from Greenock, said he had discovered that the musical icon's ancestors lived in ...