Isabella Blow, the fashion stylist with a penchant for loony hats and a talent for discovering the Next Big Thing, died on May 7, 2007, at the age of 48, having drunk a quantity of the weedkiller Paraquat.

Kiwi coach Stephen Kearney has made some positional swaps and one change for Saturday's Four Nations opener against England.

He's in cinemas right now playing an FBI agent. But it's been his television turn as Mad Men's flawed but smouldering Don Draper that made Jon Ham a star - and helped elevate him to the sexiest man alive.

Britain's most famous waterway is smelling sweeter these days.

Black people '26 times more likely' than white people to be stopped and searched by British police.

Woe is England. Much woe, with captain Adrian Morley ruled out of the Four Nations with a torn bicep.

The story of seamstresses' fight for pay parity still resonates 40 years on, Stephen Jewell discovers.

Scientists have raised serious concerns about the widespread use of one of the world's most common painkillers.

The Australian dollar has finally hit parity with the US dollar.

Pilgrimage to the home of rugby league a must for any fan, writes David Leggat.

New Zealand finished fourth among five nations tonight in the rhythmic gymnastics teams competition at the Commonwealth Games.

As the 51st Traverse team complete their epic journey, Rob Gray looks ahead to new adventures.

Born one day apart, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth both turned 50 this month. From Jane Austen to Notting Hill, their careers have run in parallel, but their film characters, finds Vanessa Thorpe, tell a subtly different story.

Fabio Capello's bad luck with injuries to his key defenders continued when it emerged that John Terry is likely to miss tomorrow's Euro 2012 qualifier against Montenegro with an injury aggravated in training yesterday.

On-screen, she's the queen of food porn. But off-screen Nigella Lawson is much messier, grumpier and shyer, she tells Stephen Jewell.