Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich team will wear black armbands during Saturday's Bundesliga match at home to Werder Bremen in memory of Tito Vilanova. The 45-year-old former Barcelona coach, who spent four years as Guardiola's assistant at the Nou ...

The semi-finals and final of Euro 2020 will be staged at Wembley or in Munich, UEFA has announced. They are the only two who have submitted bids to the European governing body for the semi-finals/final package at the tournament, which will be held ...

An Australian passenger mistook the cockpit door for the toilet on a Virgin Australia flight from Brisbane to the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, triggering Friday's hijack scare, police have said. Matt Lockley told Bali police after his arrest he banged on what he ...

We liked to think our club was different. But the graceless sacking of David Moyes has shown Manchester United fans that our pride in the longevity of Old Trafford's managers was a fond myth. This is an impatient age in which nothing is as myopic as money.

It was after he was instrumental in winning the second leg against Olympiakos in the Champions League that Ryan Giggs last spoke at any length about his 24th season as a professional at Manchester United. He has stopped hundreds of times after games ...

Was it the emotion he felt watching fans from around the world dancing to his hit record “Happy” or the sheer weight of his enormous hat, pressing down on his forehead and stimulating his tear ducts? Either way, Oprah Winfrey was forced to reach for the ...

Was it the emotion he felt watching fans from around the world dancing to his hit record “Happy” or the sheer weight of his enormous hat, pressing down on his forehead and stimulating his tear ducts? Either way, Oprah Winfrey was forced to reach for the ...

After five ferocious days, state prosecutor Gerrie Nel concluded his cross examination of Oscar Pistorius in an almost mellow statement of what he has sought to establish as the devastating facts. "On the evidence, my argument is that the court will make the ...

Google has acquired Titan Aerospace, a manufacturer of solar-powered drones that Facebook had previously considered buying. Aircraft built by the New Mexico-based company can stay aloft for years at a time at an altitude that places them above the ...

Google has acquired Titan Aerospace, a manufacturer of solar-powered drones that Facebook had also considered buying. The New Mexico-based company's aircraft can stay aloft for years at a time at an altitude that places them the turbulence that affects ...

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers feels his team deserve all the plaudits for the spirit they showed in claiming maximum points having thrown away a two-goal lead in their 3-2 victory over Manchester City on Sunday. On a poignant day for the club, ...

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will go underwater for the first time, it has been announced, as authorities investigate the few remaining clues they have to locate the plane. With the jet's “black box” flight recorders apparently having ...

“Early adopter” seems an inadequate description for the pioneering spirit with which the first users of Google's internet-linked Glass eyewear are embracing this planet-changing technology. Google prefers to call them “Explorers”. That is certainly hard to ...

The discovery of Heartbleed, a flaw in one of the most widespread encryption standards used online, has panicked webmasters and users alike. The bug has gone unnoticed for more than two years and could have potentially given hackers access to an ...

The discovery of Heartbleed, a flaw in one of the most widespread encryption standards used online, has panicked webmasters and users alike. The bug has gone unnoticed for more than two years and could have potentially given hackers access to an ...

Primeval howls reverberated around a harrowed and transfixed court room as Oscar Pistorius tried but ultimately failed to describe the panic stricken moments that ended the life of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, and changed his life forever. “She wasn't ...

Excitement for the Game of Thrones season four premiere translated into record viewing figures for HBO on Sunday night, debuting with 6.6 million viewers. The hotly-anticipated premiere "Two Swords" is now the US network's most-watched episode since ...

The Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney, who started out as a child actor and became the biggest box-office star in the world, has died at home aged 93. Despite his diminutive size, the actor was known for being one of the original larger-than-life personalities ...

On election day at Zargona High School in Kabul, the mood was ebullient. In the morning the rain had stopped just before polls opened, and enthused voters had queued up past the gate to cast their ballots. Most had taken part in previous elections; many ...

Google's latest Doodle celebrates the Twenty20 World Cup final that takes place today between India and Sri Lanka in Mirpur. The six colourful illustrations that replace the letters in the word Google depict cricketers batting, bowling and fielding along with ...