It is in the centre of midfield that games are often won or lost. The best clubs in the country all have world-class players ...

Groundbreaking black US comedian Richard Pryor has died after almost 20 years with multiple sclerosis. He died at the age of 65 of a heart attack at Encino hospital near Los Angeles, his wife Jennifer ...

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There are ten ways a batsman can be out - five are very common and five very rare. More often than not a batsman will be ...

Yet, thanks to satellite imagery and the internet, North Korea's secretive world is gradually being unveiled. Here is a series of remarkable photographs showing aspects of North Korea's hidden world ...

Most racquets are strung with synthetic materials such as nylon or even titanium. But the top players prefer to use 'gut' ...

The easiest way to tell Test and limited-overs cricket apart is by looking at the players. In Test cricket they always wear whites and play with a red ball, whereas in the shorter game they wear ...

The leg before wicket (lbw) law is to cricket what the offside rule is to football - confusing. However, you do not need a PhD from Oxford or Cambridge University to work it out - just this simple ...

Regulation football is played by two teams of 11 players but there is a variety of formations that can be employed.

The caution given to Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc, who crossed himself during a match against Rangers, has brought the issue of sectarianism in Scotland back into sharp focus. The rivalry between ...

The BLU-114/B is a form of cluster bomb. That is, it scatters numerous "sub-munitions" in the form of canisters about the size of a drinks can. These in turn sprinkle highly conductive strands of ...

Twelve Nepalese hostages have been killed by their captors in Iraq. A Nepalese diplomat confirmed the deaths hours after images were put on a website, apparently showing one man being beheaded and 11 ...