Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador will lose his 2010 Tour de France title and be excluded from this year's Tour as well as the 2012 Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Monday in its...

Actor Russell Crowe has thanked former "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff for taking time out of his busy schedule to visit a children's hospital in Sydney.

According to contactmusic.com, Hasselhoff...

A school in London has taken up an initiative to teach children to learn from failure in exams and on the sports field.

Education experts have welcomed the move, which is being seen as a bid to...

Prince Harry sported a cut on his nose while he was partying with David Beckham in London on Friday.

Harry sustained the injury on the bridge of his nose during a fierce RAF hostage survival...

Jousting, a sport from 9 centuries ago, is getting a modern day makeover thanks to History Channel's new series "Full Metal Jousting".

The show, which premiers on February 12 at 10/9c, replaces...

A drug tipped for widespread use to prevent breast cancer in post-menopausal women also accelerates loss of bone density, potentially boosting the risk of fractures.Exemestane - whose brand name is...

A whisky specialist has launched a 60-year-old single malt to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.Gordon & MacPhail in Elgin, Moray, has released 85 bottles of Glen Grant 60 Years Old, which...

British comedienne Dawn French admits she misses her old body after losing more than 45kg.The Vicar of Dibley star, 54, has told UK's Woman magazine that she has lost 48kg and doesn't have...

Parents' fear of technology and the internet is putting children's safety at risk, a UK children's agency says.A poll, commissioned by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection...

Looking for a Nordic package? Rossingnol has the goods. The new EVO Off-Trail (OV) package includes the EVO OT ski ($260), the X5 OT boot ($145), T3 Auto binding ($55) and XT 700 poles ($30). Of...

CHICAGO  — Junk food remains plentiful at the nation's elementary schools despite widespread efforts to curb childhood obesity, a new study...

Following the practice of the great wine-makers of France, where the best wines have had protected status for centuries, Camel Valley Vineyard is applying for Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)...

Stop reading now if your beauty regime extends only to the bits people can see. For those truly devoted to inner radiance, a spa in Essex (where else?) has launched a new facial that promises to...

They left their home towns behind for the lure of London's fashion scene, where their creations earned them the highest praise. Now, five of the British fashion industry's leading lights...

Coroner Alison Thompson's job is to get to the truth about unexplained deaths. Every day, it brings her face to face with heartbreak and human frailty - but it's still the most cheerful...

A ballerina who accused La Scala of promoting anorexia has been sacked. There's more to this weighty issue than meets the eye, says Judith...

Two organizations, the American Sports Builders Association and the New Mexico chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, have honored Lone Mountain Contracting Inc. for four of its New...

From 22, notonthehigh street. comNothing beats a personalised Valentine's present. Send the name of the place you first met and you'll get a personalised street sign for your bedroom...

Lamborghini, the maker of low-slung supercars once advertised as "closer to the road," is planning a new model that will be farther from the tarmac than ever - an SUV. The Italian brand,...

Kruse said her son is so fascinated with toilets that he wanted to ask Santa for a particular type of Kohler toilet, a dual-flush brand that allows people to either make a full or a half...

Stella McCartney ’s Octavia has emerged. Also known as the Miracle (celestial names tending to work well here), it’s a simple sleeveless sheath with cunningly located black side panels...

Print Watching the runways at New York Fashion Week can be an overwhelming experience for the editors and buyers who will descend on the city in the next few days.Several dozen models will sashay up...

apps that might help her child learn basic skills ; now, we have a chance to talk about what happens next. When is ';absorbing the visual gist'; a chance to excel?If you’re the parent...

A blogger might be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in economic damages after allegedly hijacking his former employer’s Twitter followers. A lawsuit brought by South...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Losing fitness or packing on fat with age each can be bad for the heart -- but avoiding either one of those fates may protect the ticker, a study published Monday...

-esque videogame (voiced by John C. Reilly) who longs to prove that he’s actually a good guy. To do that, he must escape his own game and travel through his arcade to other games to prove his...

hits DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow (Feb. 7), which means American fans will have to decide whether to buy it now to see the final episodes early or wait until the season 2 finale airs on PBS Feb. 19. But...

Smash , her character, Julia, has two main goals in life: bring a new baby into her and hubby Frank's (Brian d'Arcy James) lives and bring the story of Marilyn Monroe to the stage. WARNING:...

GENEVA (AP) -- Three days after U.S. prosecutors dropped their investigation of doping claims against Lance Armstrong, fellow Tour de France champion Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 title...

B ack in the early 1970s, if you were set on buying an American-made sports car, there was little mystery what you'd be driving home: a bulletproof, monster V-8 engine stuffed inside an...

Sweat Equity looks at fun ’n’ funky classes that get South Floridians in shape. First up, Crunch’s new Pound class, using weighted drumsticks to beat back the...

The day I met my rapist, a regular in the bar I worked in, I was told he was "a bit sleazy, but harmless". He raped me on a Saturday morning in September. It did not immediately hit me that...

Children Act 1989 currently requires that the "child's welfare shall be the paramount consideration" in family court decision-making. The Norgrove review decided against a stronger...

philosophy class with some much-needed scientific rigour; a couple of the chaps were so seduced that they started science degrees themselves.Once Mary has gone, I get the full blast....

Boston Business Journal by Galen Moore, Web Editor Date: Monday, February 6, 2012, 2:58pm EST - Last Modified: Monday, February 6, 2012, 3:12pm...

Spanking children should be illegal in Canada, say researchers. In an analysis published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Dr. Joan Durrant and social worker Ron Ensom examined the...

Dating websites that claim they can find your perfect match with a scientific algorithm are full of it, according to a team of psychologists. "To date, there is no compelling evidence that any...

Crews had trouble releasing the elevator, which was stuck between the 21st and 22nd floor, so they had to rescue him from another elevator parallel to the one that was stalled, said...

In a "certain china-doll way, Margaret herself was very beautiful," Ms. Boyle said. "Beautiful skin, beautiful legs, beautiful feet, beautiful hands, which she always kept absolutely...

Stella McCartney appears in a new video by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, released today. It's worth watching. The subject is animal suffering in the leather industry and the risks...

"Why French Parents Are Superior." In both cases, the message is clear: Americans are terrible parents. Our children are overindulged. They misbehave, they’re rude and they have poor...

Parents, is your work as an unpaid driving instructor done when your teenager gets a license? If you think so, here are some statistics that Pam Fischer, who oversees the New Jersey Teen Safe Driving...

Watching this evening’s televised sporting event (which will remain nameless, so as to save me visits from intellectual property lawyers), I remembered that I took part in the curious office...

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