Congratulations, if that is the right word for something you have no control over, to Henry Allingham, who has become the world's oldest man at the age of 113 after the death of Tomoji Tanabe, a Japanese. Allingham, one of two surviving vetera...

A popular US Christian preacher has been refused entry to Britain leaving thousands stranded at an evangelical rally in London planned for this weekend, the Home Office confirmed today. Benny Hinn, a televangelist from Texas, who draws large crowds to...

Children are being held back at school because they are forced to memorize irregular spellings and learn how to use the apostrophe, a leading academic will claim this week. John Wells, Emeritus Professor of Phonetics at University College London and...

Do you worry about your calorie intake? Lie about your weight? This used to be strictly the preserve of women. Not any more. It's always assumed that new year's resolutions cause the biggest increase in people signing up to a gym but, ac...

Waste-disposal units designed to turn leftover food into electricity and fertiliser could be built around every town and city as part of a scheme being considered by ministers.

There has been some consternation among my Australian friends, who are staggered that Australia have chosen some groundsman called Burt Cockley to replace Moises Henriques in their one-day squad (he's being sent home to have that ingrowing 'i' in his...

It was a happy homecoming for Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott today. Playing the Diamond Eagles in Bloemfontein, the Joburg-born Strauss made 72 and the Capetonian Trott got 85 to delight their many friends and relations in the crowd. Matt Prior,...

There was a sketch on A Bit of Fry & Laurie some years back that featured Stephen Fry doing weird and amusing gyrations as part of a plan to lose weight. "A few years ago a friend put me on to dancercises," he explains to Hugh Laurie. "I won't tell...

I don't know if Four Weddings and a Funeral was big in India, but you can't blame Sachin Tendulkar if he starts doing an impersonation of Hugh Grant's opening speech in the film this evening. "F***. &$£%. *&£%.£(^@" It is not every day that...

It must be pretty grim to be a Zimbabwe fan at the moment. The state of the national side has got so desperate that even an ODI win against Bangladesh, chasing a target of less than 200 last week, is described as "an upset". Bangladesh have been...