Nicolas Anelka's foul-mouthed tirade at the French coach dominated overnight news at the WC.

An engineer who spent 40 years obsessively digging tunnels under his home has left council bosses to shoulder a massive bill.

Doctors in England effectively froze a 16-week-old baby for four days to cure a potentially fatal heart defect.

The Royal Dutch Medical Association has adopted the view that the circumcision of underage boys violates their human rights.

This is a fact - something I believe the way I believe I will die if there's no oxygen. Curiously, I also know it's not true, writes Stuart Dye.

Golden Shears champion Cam Ferguson has claimed first place at the Royal Cornwall Open in England.

Monteith's Golden Lager has taken out the top title at the competition in London.

Photos from the game at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Photos of the Fifa World Cup fans from South Africa and around the world.

Scientists found the least anxious study participants healed twice as fast as those who were most stressed.

The Independent's Nick Duerden wonders why the UK has such different views on children in restaurants to the rest of Europe.

As the world's most famous luggage brand opens a landmark store in London, Patrick-Louis Vuitton shares why we love LV so.

Hand-picked NZ bumblebees waiting to be sent to Britain on a pollination "rescue mission" have died in captivity.

The Manor, high altar of 1970s rock and birthplace of the legendary album Tubular Bells, has been put up for sale.

"Rightly or wrongly, and we all think wrongly, Derrick thought his brother was out to get him," a friend of the Bird family says.

British scientists have started an ambitious project aimed at searching for signs of extraterrestrial life on Mars.