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...

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...

Mission San Jose Invitational wrestling tournament Heritage vs Deer Valley girls basketball Albany vs Piedmont boys basketball Washington vs Newark girls basketball Oakland Technical vs...

Follow this company is opening two additional gyms in the Cincinnati area this spring. One, located in Finneytown in Brentwood Plaza, is scheduled to open this Wednesday. The other, in...

Football is the only London 2012 event which has not sold out, with approximately 1.5 million tickets still available, BBC Sport has learned. Football is still the biggest selling sport at the...

MADRID (AP) -- Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title Monday and banned for two years after sports' highest court found the Spanish cyclist guilty of...

The South African Rugby Union (Saru) and Cricket South Africa (CSA) have warned about a scam in the Western Cape involving a conman pretending to be a sports...

With Valentine’s Day just a week away disappointed daters wondering what went wrong with the romance have a new way to discover why the relationship...

SAVANNAH, Ga.  — Authorities say a Georgia man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the leg at a Savannah gun...

LAST WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS Argentina pip Great Britain to gold in hockey's Champions Trophy, US league cancellation hits GB footballers, former world judo champion Craig Fallon retires, and...

Rdio fan with an Android phone, you’ve been on the losing end of things for quite some time — stuck with a clunky mobile app and waiting around for a long-promised refresh. Meanwhile,...

The latest news comes from a Chinese newspaper called the Commercial Times that claims that Apple will be unveiling its next smartphone in June this year at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San...

Valentine's Day is a holiday entrenched in the notion of love, devotion and romance, but what if you're not the romantic kind? What if your idea of love is sitting on the couch watching an...

Well constructed wireless earbuds? The Phiaton PS 20 BT. My ears have seen a lot of earbuds to carry music into my head. Well, I suppose my ears...

Eighth Notes are the subject of today’s GarageBand Music Theory Lesson. If you’re new to GB Music Theory, be sure to check out the previous weeks’ lessons...

Google is making a big deal out of consolidating all its user agreements that nobody reads into a single, short, comprehensible user agreement that like three people will read. I say the company can...

Comedian John Bishop is training for a five day triathlon from Paris to London to raise money for Sport Relief. Bishop has labelled the 290-mile cycling, rowing and running challenge as "the...

MOSCOW, February 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's absolute equestrian sport champion, world cup winner in horse jumping competitions and a member of the Russian national team Arseny Shpakovsky, 34,...

cancer is "almost gone", he said on Friday. Despite reports that he was close to death, the 62-year-old Bee Gee said he is "feeling fantastic" after undergoing treatment at The...

There were 128,853 new registrations in January 2012 - a 0.03% rise on the figure of 128,811 in January 2011, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said.The new car market is expected...

(15) was huge coming off the bench as the Pride trailed most of the game but outscored Sheldon (18-5) 9-4 in the final 2:30 to pull out the win. A three-pointer by Dunn - not known for his shooting -...

It's a year late but the federal government is set to introduce a bill to alter a list of protected sporting events free-to-air television broadcasters must show live if they hold the...