Like many a young American with parents who like to spoil him, Declan Kelly spent a roasting hot afternoon last week splashing around his local water park. It had fountains, a simulated beach, and thatched cabanas where he could kick back and watch the world go by. There were areas for learning to swim, in [...]
At least 19 people were killed today after Islamist rebels launched an audacious attack on the heavily defended residence of Chechnya's pro-Kremlin president, Ramzan Kadyrov.
Chechen officials said that 12 insurgents and two guards were killed after the rebels slipped into Tsentoroi, Kadyrov's home village, also known as Khosi-Yurt, in the early hours of this morning [...]
Six trawlermen from Shetland face unlimited fines and multi-million pound confiscation orders for illegally landing £15m worth of herring and mackerel to cheat strict quotas designed to conserve fish stocks.
The six skippers from Lerwick admitted today that they made false declarations about the true size of their catch after nearly 200 voyages between January 2002 [...]
Baroness Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, yesterday issued an unusually sharp rebuke to Israel over a military court's conviction of a Palestinian activist prominent in unarmed protests against the West Bank separation barrier.
Lady Ashton said she was "deeply concerned" that Abdallah Abu Rahma was facing a possible jail sentence "to prevent him and other [...]
More than a third of the nation's dogs are overweight, veterinary charity PDSA warned today.
An assessment of almost 30,000 dogs across the UK over the past four years revealed the country's obesity epidemic is not confined to humans, with 35% of canines carrying too many pounds.
The figure is an increase on 21% recorded four years [...]
Two of motorsport's greatest legends, Michael Schumacher and Valentino Rossi, have come under the microscope during the summer.
Both are multiple champions widely regarded as the modern-day greats of their sports. The Italian may have a way to go to catch the winning tally of the great Giacomo Agostini, whereas the German surpassed Juan Manuel Fangio [...]
London, Manchester, Newcastle and Sunderland will be the potential World Cup host cities visited by Fifa's inspection team over the next four days, the English bid committee announced last night.
The inspectors, who will then compile a crucial technical report about what they have seen, are doing the rounds of countries competing to stage the 2018 [...]
The Beach Boys started it. Not the falsetto West Coast songsters of "Surfing USA", but the Hawaiian watermen who still act as board caddies and gurus to visiting mid-managers and their families in from Des Moines, trying out the forgiving waves of Waikiki for the first time. Back in the late 1950s they would paddle [...]
Film director Chris Atkins appears to have a death wish – having already taken on the collective might of tabloid newspapers, PR guru Max Clifford and Bob Geldof.
Atkins was the brains behind Starsuckers, a documentary which held the British tabloid press up to ridicule last year, in part by offering fake stories to the red-tops, [...]
While Britain’s schools and colleges offer some of the finest design education in the world, there is often a disconnection between the creative focus of classroom lessons and the ways in which learners apply this in the real world of design and business. It's why, this week, Sebastian Conran has unveiled Design Ventura, a new [...]