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Writer Terry Pratchett has poked fun at Harry Potter author JK Rowling for saying she did not realise she was writing a fantasy novel. He wrote to the Sunday Times:"I would have thought that the ...

The IRA has apologised for the grief caused to the families of the so-called Disappeared. Its statement on Friday follows confirmation that the remains found recently on a beach in the Irish Republic ...

Called a coloboma, the defect can appear as a keyhole shape A girl resembling Madeleine McCann has been spotted in France by a woman who says she had the same eye blemish as the missing girl's. Police ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Between 1935 and 1945, around 10,000 German children and an estimated 9,000 Norwegian children with "Aryan" characteristics of blond hair and blue eyes were born into a Nazi-run programme called ...

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, ...

Elvis Presley's roots can be traced back to a village in Aberdeenshire, according to a Scottish author. Allan Morrison, from Greenock, said he had discovered that the musical icon's ancestors lived in ...

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 ...