Winston Churchill addressing a crowd in London in July 1945 "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." Winston Churchill's talismanic ...

Two goals in three second-half minutes by Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben helped to see off a resolute Uruguay side and put the Netherlands into a World Cup final for the first time since 1978. The ...

And Canada bowler Sanjayan Thuraisingam is the latest big man to hog the limelight. The image of him celebrating the wicket of Kenya's Kennedy Otieno promises to be one of the most enduring of the ...

Sharon Osbourne's music mogul father Don Arden has died at the age of 81. Dubbed the Al Capone of Pop for his uncompromising business practices, he steered acts like ELO, The Small Faces and Black ...

Laois. Laois earned the right to face Tyrone in the Allianz National Football League Final in a fortnight by deservedly beating All-Ireland champions Armagh at Cr ...

Here is the full text of Robin Cook's resignation speech in the House of Commons, which won applause from some backbenchers in unprecedented Commons scenes. This is the first time for 20 years that I ...

Luke Young has completed his £2.5m move to Middlesbrough from Charlton. The 28-year-old England right-back will be presented at a news conference on Friday after signing a four-year deal. Young left ...

One of the most memorable relay images came from the 1991 Tokyo World Championships. It was the day Britain nipped the 400m relay gold from under the noses of the Americans. And all with the help of ...

The trials and tribulations suffered by the team, whose make-up changed almost as frequently as the Italian government, are worthy of a book on their own, maybe even a film. Then to win Olympic gold ...

3: Yokohama, Japan, Toshiaki Nishioka bt Genaro Garcia by 12th-round stoppage (WBC super-bantamweight), Paulus Moses bt Yusuke Kobori by unanimous decision (WBA lightweight). 10: Magdeburg, Germany, ...

A long-lost Dalek episode of Doctor Who has been returned to the BBC by an engineer who rescued the film from destruction in the early 1970s. The episode of The Daleks' Master Plan, from 1965, was ...

The German party is over but the team's exploits at the World Cup have brought about a rebirth of the national side and a lasting legacy for the country. A defeat by Italy in the semi-finals halted ...