UK Entertainment Bergman admits Nazi past Bergman thought Hitler was "charismatic" when he saw him speak Legendary Swedish ...

Former world snooker champion Alex Higgins has died aged 61 after a long battle against throat cancer. The 1972 and 1982 world champion, a heavy smoker, was found dead in his flat in Belfast on ...

The BBC's Ingibjorg Thordardottir demonstrates how to pronounce 'Eyjafjallajokull', the tongue-twisting name of Iceland's erupting volcano.

South African white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche has been killed on his farm in the country's north-west. Mr Terreblanche, 69, was beaten to death by two farm workers after a dispute over ...

Rage Against the Machine win the most gripping battle in years for the Christmas number one, beating X Factor winner Joe McElderry.

For people the world over, few relics have come to symbolise the Nazi Holocaust more than the infamous wrought-iron sign straddling the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp, bearing the cynical words ...

Ronaldo was heavily linked with a move to Real Madrid last summer Cristiano Ronaldo has completed his world record £80m move from Manchester United to Real Madrid after agreeing a six-year deal.

Needing just four runs for a Test batting average of 100, Don Bradman is bowled by Eric Hollies for a duck in his last innings.

Police in Germany have admitted that a woman they have been hunting for more than 15 years never in fact existed. Dubbed the "phantom of Heilbronn", the woman was described by police as the country's ...

Police in Jamaica are investigating the suspected theft of hundreds of tons of sand from a beach on the island's north coast. It was discovered in July that 500 truck-loads had been removed outside a ...

Turkish shepherds watched in horror as hundreds of their sheep followed each other over a cliff, say Turkish newspaper reports. First one sheep went over the cliff edge, only to be followed by the ...

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