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.

Hal Herzog, one of America's foremost psychologists, is dedicated to understanding our often contradictory behaviour towards different species.

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.

A British clothing supplier has won a four-year trademark battle against the fashion giant Lacoste.

Competition schedule for New Zealand athletes on the seventh day of the Delhi Commonwealth Games on Monday, October 11:

Phil Pollett's love affair with pies helped him make two big decisions.

The Independent looks at a vanishing breed - the investigative journalist.

Jess Hamill added to New Zealand's medal tally overnight when she finished second in the parasport shot put.

Report shows wealthy people are least likely to care about cleanliness or to enjoy housework.

Since it opened in 1872, Hastings Pier has hosted everyone from Victorian holidaymakers to the Rolling Stones.

A gay Saudi prince beat his servant to death in a London hotel room in a sexually motivated murder, a court heard today.

Kate Atkinson began as a prize-winning literary novelist with Behind the Scenes At The Museum and has reinvented herself by using the tropes of detective fiction.

As violence recedes, many people wantto have contentious murals removed from everyday life.

London insurers have radical plans to reduce seaborne hijackings.

A Queenstown man who went to Britain to get married was turned away at London's Heathrow airport as he didn't have the appropriate visa.

Dannii Minogue has opened up about the loves of her life in her autobiography, My Story.