England captain Joe Root won the toss and elected to bat against South Africa in the third Test at The Oval on Thursday. Root made his decision despite overcast skies and a green-tinged pitch both...
Thousands of children, including a boy aged five, have been investigated for sexting, the BBC has learned. Nearly 400 children under the age of 12 have been spoken to by police in the last three...
Bradley Lowery, the Sunderland football mascot whose battle with a rare cancer helped raise more than £1m to help others, has died, his family said. The six-year-old Sunderland fan came to public...
Britain said Thursday it had begun housing Islamist extremists in separate prison units to prevent them radicalising other inmates, as it grapples with a mounting terror threat. A new "separation...
Sri Lanka great Mahela Jayawardene has withdrawn from his planned spell with Lancashire during English county cricket's Twenty20 Blast for unspecified "personal reasons", it was announced Thursday....
US Olympic Committee officials are working on the possibility of Los Angeles being offered the 2028 Olympics while focusing on their 2024 bid, USOC chief executive officer Scott Blackmun said...
The US Supreme Court on Monday unanimously struck down a North Carolina law that barred registered sex offenders from using social media. The suit in the nation's highest court goes back to a...
Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed hopes the team's "high confidence" in Cardiff will stand them in good stead when they return to the Welsh capital to face England in a Champions Trophy semi-final on...
It may not have been the most profound piece of batting advice Steve Smith has ever given when he told Ben Stokes during the Indian Premier League that he was "losing his backside a bit". But the...
South Africa captain AB de Villiers believes England all-rounder Ben Stokes has taken his game to the "next level" in the Indian Premier League but stressed the tournament had improved many of his...
Dale Steyn's quest to become South Africa's all-time leading Test wicket-taker has been put back until at least September after he ruled himself out of a Test series in England during July and...
The first match of the tri-series in Dublin between Ireland and Bangladesh was abandoned after just 31.1 overs because of rain, cutting short a fine innings by Tamim Iqbal. The Tigers were 157 for...
South Africa all rounder Vernon Philander will miss Sussex's One Day Cup group stage fixtures after suffering a groin injury. Philander is signed to the English county for the first half of the 2017...
Britain’s tallest man, who played a giant in Game of Thrones, has died, reportedly of a heart attack, at the age of 36. Neil Fingleton, from Durham, was 7ft 7in tall, and was a basketball player in...
The US Supreme Court on Monday took up a case involving a North Carolina law that bars registered sex offenders from accessing social media and raises a broader question: can one live without the...
Ian Botham says "box-office" Ben Stokes deserves every penny of the more than £1.7 million ($2.1mn) that the England all-rounder will rake in playing in the Indian Premier League. Stokes set a...
A woman who has been married to a British man for 27 years has been deported to Singapore. Irene Clennel was being held in a Scottish detention centre, but has now told the BBC she has been sent back...
Britain’s tallest man who stood at 7ft 7in has died aged 36. Basketball player-turned-actor Neil Fingleton suffered a lethal heart failure on Saturday. He most famously played the giant Mag the...
A Ghanaian, Mark Amo-Boateng, has made it to the semi-finals of the $7 million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, a three-year global competition challenging teams to advance ocean technologies for rapid,...
Most principals go the extra mile for their students. But Elizabeth MacWilliams of Carroll Middle School goes many extra miles by meeting with each and every one of her students at their homes....
