Archaeologists excavating part of a Roman villa in Somerset have unearthed a mosaic of Daphne and Apollo. The mosaic, which dates back to the 4th Century, is part of the Dinnington Roman Villa site ...

Plaid Cymru has revealed the most radical image overhaul in its history at its spring conference in Carmarthen. The party is dropping its traditional colour and logo and will no longer use the word ...

Pakistani Nasim-ul-Ghani is the first night-watchman to hit a ton, scoring 101 against England at Lord's in 1962. Australia's ...

The movie is initially 20k and should take no more than 20 seconds to download over a 56k modem. There may be some delay in loading the aerodynamics, mechanical, electronics and cockpit sections.

The moment you see the lob go up in the air you need to turn sideways - as if you were getting ready to serve. As well as ...

Full list of the collieries which have closed since March 1984 when the miners' strike began.

Television presenter and prankster Jeremy Beadle has died aged 59. One of ITV's most popular hosts during the 1980s, he was admitted to hospital last week suffering from pneumonia. He was best known ...

The revolutionary events of 1989 that saw the Iron Curtain fall across Europe in video, pictures and text.

Twelve Nepalese hostages have been killed by their captors in Iraq. A Nepalese diplomat confirmed the deaths hours after images were put on a website, apparently showing one man being beheaded and 11 ...

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.

The 2004 local elections in Birmingham were marred by widespread postal vote fraud, a judge rules.

It seems as though the Cher hit It's In His Kiss was right all along. Scientists have found that the size of somebody's lips plays a key role in determining whether they are sexually attractive to ...