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.

South Africa v Sri Lanka A, Colombo Match drawn ...

A 19th Century report that became controversial for condemning the Welsh language has been published online by the National Library of Wales. The government report about Welsh education in 1847 was ...

According to Seema Assefi and Maryanne Garry, two psychologists at Victoria University in New Zealand, memory can be affected by an alcohol placebo. Tests showed that participants in an experiment who ...

A South Korean man dies after reportedly playing an online computer game for 50 hours with few breaks.

Former boxing champions Eddie Thomas, Billy Eynon, Charlie Bundy, Glen Moody, Phineas John, Cuthbert Taylor, Jack Phillips ...

The maker of Colgate toothpaste has been warned not to repeat its famous advertising claim that "more than 80% of dentists recommend Colgate". The Advertising Standards Authority concluded the claim ...

Called a coloboma, the defect can appear as a keyhole shape A girl resembling Madeleine McCann has been spotted in France by a woman who says she had the same eye blemish as the missing girl's. Police ...

Builders at the site of a new tourist attraction in London are refusing to work alone after skeletons were found in a sealed vault in the basement. Old tombs beneath London Bridge are being excavated ...

As Czechoslovakia was liberated from the Nazis at the end of World War II, the population of the country took its revenge - not on the Nazis themselves, but on three million of their fellow citizens.

Coca-Cola's recipe has been a trade secret for 120 years A former secretary at Coca-Cola has been sentenced to eight years in prison for plotting to steal the company's secrets and sell them to rival ...

A millionaire businessman and his son flying back from a European cup football match have died in a helicopter crash. Phillip Carter, his son Andrew, 17, close friend Jonathan Waller, and pilot ...