The rounds are pretty intense so there is a break of one minute between each one. This allows the boxers to sit down in their opposite corners and take a breather . Their trainer can give them a pep ...

There is controversy about whether sexual orientation is a matter of choice, the authors of the study admitted to the journal. Campaigners say equality for homosexual people is the more important ...

The top four sides (Ireland, Canada, Netherlands, Kenya) qualify for the 2011 World Cup and the top six (the aforementioned ...

Renowned surgeon Steadman operated on Bullard for a second time in December and told BBC Sport back then: "There's no ...

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 ...

It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament Legislation said to prohibit people dying while in the Houses of Parliament has been voted one of the most ludicrous laws in the UK. Treason laws which ...

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Adrian Morley has carved a fearsome reputation with the Sydney Roosters in Australia's NRL - the toughest league in the world ...

A consignment of thousands of rubber ducks is expected to wash up any day on the coast of New England - after more than a decade at sea. Thousands of rubber ducks floated across three oceans over 11 ...

Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate - already the world's highest - has soared to 231,000,000%, newly released official figures for July show. The rise - from 11,200,000% last month - was largely due to ...

Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report. Passers-by were too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far ...

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has defended itself after it was accused of preventing police acting sooner against Muslim preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri. Earlier ...