A hospital nurse has been convicted of murdering two of his patients. Benjamin Geen, 25, was also convicted of causing grievous bodily harm to a further 15 patients at Horton General Hospital in ...

Armed robbers have stolen the iconic Edvard Munch painting, The Scream, from the Munch Museum in Norway. Two masked thieves pulled the work and another painting, Madonna, off the wall as stunned ...

Skating chiefs have backed the decision to allow Chinese couple Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao to continue their Olympic pairs routine after a spectacular fall. Zhang Dan crashed in Monday's event but ...

A controversial Kyrgyz businessman and MP, Ryspek Akmatbayev, has been shot dead while leaving a mosque on the outskirts of the capital Bishkek. According to witnesses, Mr Akmatbayev's body was ...

New fertility legislation will make it illegal to use embryos with a known genetic abnormality in IVF treatment when ones without the same defect are available. Some deaf activists contend they do not ...

Detectives investigating the death of a man who apparently broadcast his own suicide live on a webcam have asked people not to distribute the images. Kevin Whitrick, 42, from Wellington, Telford, ...

In 1886 the Hockey Association was established in London. The sport was introduced to many countries by the British army and the first international match was held in 1895. At first hockey was ...

But if play runs over because of a rain delay or a slow over rate, then it could be hell's bells instead of wedding bells for Nel. Talk about bowling a maiden over. The poor girl will feel like she ...

McCann was dismissed during the Allianz Football League game between Limerick and Armagh on 25 February. His ban will expire the day before the Orchard County meet Tyrone in the Championship on 20 May ...

Former world snooker champion Alex Higgins has died aged 61 after a long battle against throat cancer. The 1972 and 1982 world champion, a heavy smoker, was found dead in his flat in Belfast on ...

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Turkish shepherds watched in horror as hundreds of their sheep followed each other over a cliff, say Turkish newspaper reports. First one sheep went over the cliff edge, only to be followed by the ...