South Africa pace legend Allan Donald says England deserve to overtake India as the number one Test-playing nation.

A study into restraint techniques suggests that forcing a detainee to bend over while seated can lead to death.

A South American dolphin is the first "true mammal" to sense prey by their electrical fields, scientists report.

Probation staff in England and Wales should spend more time dealing directly with offenders, a committee of MPs says in a report.

Events marking a year to go until the start of the 2012 Olympic Games are being held in London.

A train company is ordered to remove a "misleading" claim about the speed of its services between Gatwick and London from its website.

The £371m Hindhead Tunnel under the Devil's Punch Bowl in Surrey is to be officially opened later after a four-and-a-half year construction project.

The man convicted of blowing up a plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988 has appeared at a rally broadcast by Libyan state television.