Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger has revealed that he almost signed a teenage Zlatan Ibrahimovic, scorer of all four goals in Sweden's 4-2 friendly win over England on Wednesday.

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Former captain Geoffrey Boycott has questioned England's ability to play spin on the turning sub-continent pitches after they lost three quick wickets in the first Test against India in Ahmedabad.

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British media watchdog Ofcom said on Thursday that it had launched an investigation into BBC’s Newsnight and ITV1's This Morning programmes over new allegations arising about historic sexual abuse of

The BBC will pay a former British politician 185,000 pounds in damages over a news report that led to him being falsely accused of child sex abuse, it said on Thursday.

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Researchers have discovered a new gene which they say helps explain how humans evolved from chimpanzees.

The BBC marked the 90th anniversary of its first ever transmission on Wednesday beset by doubts about its future after scandals surrounding its reporting of child sex abuse allegations.

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'Omnishambles' has been chosen as word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary after it was coined by a BBC TV's satirical political series to describe a badly mismanaged situation and gaffes.

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An international team of astronomers has produced the first map of the universe as it was 11 billion years ago, filling a gap between the Big Bang and the rapid expansion that followed.

A cushion-shaped internally 76.02-carat flawless Golconda diamond was auctioned for a record price of $21.47 million (£13.5 million) by Christie’s in Geneva on Tuesday evening.

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An independent public inquiry must be conducted into the death of Savita Halappanavar, who collapsed after doctors in an Ireland hospital refused to abort her foetus on grounds that "this is a Catholi