Caught on the wrong foot by the side-stepping Robinson, Dominici threw out his left leg and caught his opponent across the shins. Not only did he depart for the sin-bin in disgrace, he departed with a limp that would...

Sometimes in sport, as in life, you have to believe whatever you choose in order to get through the toughest of challenges, and when Johnson dismissed the critical pressure on Wilkinson and the rest of the team as...

The hearts were filled with patriotic certainty, while the heads did not seem quite so sure.Early on Sunday morning horns honking excitedly down the streets provided a wake-up call, and the caf?that were showing the...

Vaccines only protect against specific strains, and every so often, the virus mutates significantly to form an altogether different, and nastier version. Six years ago, the discovery of so-called "bird flu" in Hong...

Track-maintenance workers give us a jolting perspective on a crazy commercial world where there is so much sub-contracting and out-sourcing, "you don't actually know who you work for". How can you expect loyalty?With...

The resulting report, published in May 2000, found that exposure to the emission of radiation from mobile phones and masts, provided they were weaker than the recommended guidelines, did not cause adverse health...

This is an allergy-like condition that causes all of the symptoms that you describe. No one knows the exact cause of PLE, although it probably has something to do with the body's immune system and its reaction to...

Arundel and Henry IV had far more threatening fish than Chaucer to fry, and Henry was an old friend. The first Lancastrian king was concentrating on appeasement, trying to unite his realm against triple-pronged...

The officer told him not to persecute himself.As the third week of the trial opened, the jury of seven women and five men heard how the 29-year-old caretaker had three scratches along his jaw on 5 August last year,...

Universities complain that they cannot attract the talent base into science that the country needs, while the arts faculties are bursting with would-be changers of the world order. In some ways, art has tried to find...

If this finds its way into nearby rivers or seeps into the water table the results are dramatic. Activists point to US studies which they claim show that factory farm workers and their neighbours contract lung...

To its credit, too, the new leaders are evidently very worried about inequality and seek to do something about it.But it is impossible not to be troubled. You do not need to listen hard to hear of serious corruption....

And in Shanghai, among the shining skyscrapers, elderly ragged beggars rummaged through rubbish bins. The same party that presided over a nation that cycled to work in identical blue overalls now has to cope with the...

Sales at its Calais, Cherbourg and Coquelles sites rose 21.7 per cent over the summer, slowing slightly in recent weeks. The other high street retailers will continue to suffer because they can't get the necessary...

We want to buttress this strength."The £10m will initially be focused on replicating efforts in the treatment of cancer which have doubled the number of cancer patients in clinical trials. The aim is to expand the...