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Singer Katie Melua has entered the record books by playing the world's deepest underwater concert. Melua and her band performed for workers 303 metres below sea level on the Statoil Troll A gas rig in ...

Shrewsbury boss Gary Peters has moved to strengthen his injury-hit squad with the signing of defender Liam Burns. Burns, 26, has joined on an initial non-contract basis after leaving Bristol Rovers, ...

A drop-goal is scored when a player kicks the ball from hand through the opposition's goal posts. The ball is dropped to the ground and is kicked just after it has bounced - it can be a tricky skill ...

Two men exposed as hooligans on a BBC documentary have been jailed for planning football violence. Jason Marriner, 33, from Feltham, Middlesex, and Andrew Frain, 36, from Reading, were filmed ...

More than 300 soldiers who were shot for military offences during World War I will receive formal pardons, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. Defence Secretary Des Browne said he would be seeking ...

Wales internationals Gavin Thomas, Iestyn Thomas and Matthew Rees have all signed for an extra three years. Scotland lock ...

The Epic Of Gilgamesh - written by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorated the life of the ruler of the city of Uruk, from which Iraq gets its name. Now, a ...

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 ...

Promoter Frank Warren has denied rumours of a split with IBF light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton. Hatton's contract with ...

The progress of a controversial bill which would allow terminally ill people to be helped to die has been blocked by the House of Lords. Lord Joffe's bill would give doctors the right to prescribe ...

It consists of 12,000-year-old engravings of birds and an ibex carved into the stone walls at Creswell Crags, Derbyshire. The identification was made by Paul Bahn and Paul Pettitt, with Spanish ...