Manager Roy Hodgson is confident England will qualify for next year's World Cup, but says the job is currently only "half done".

Chris Coleman says he would have lost his job had his Wales side not beaten Macedonia in Friday's World Cup qualifier.

Championship leader Marc Marquez takes pole for Sunday's Malaysian MotoGP, ahead of Valentino Rossi and Cal Crutchlow.

A neurosurgeon whose family died in a house fire in Leicester tells mourners at their funeral in Dublin he is "a bird without wings".

The defence secretary strenuously rejects claims he is leading an "overzealous" austerity drive which is forcing unnecessary cuts upon the armed forces.

A woman from Devon describes the moment she learned her teenage son had been diagnosed with the same type of cancer as his twin brother.

A collection of letters written by historic figures, including Admiral Nelson and Florence Nightingale, is expected to sell for thousands of pounds at an auction in Essex.

The operators of the Grangemouth refinery and petrochemical site have warned a threatened 48-hour strike "could effectively shut much of Scotland".