Football might be the world’s favourite sport today, but its early days were anything but beautiful. Greg takes us back to medieval Britain, when football was a chaotic town-wide scramble played on ...

The president attended the 126th installment of the Army-Navy football rivalry in Baltimore, where he received an emotional ...

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

Each season brings its own collision of new voices, late-career swerves and returns to long-shadowed figures. This week's ...

Comedy icon Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, hitting the century mark some six decades after he sang ...

HOW DO YOU ERADICATE hunger, STDs, illiteracy, poverty? It’s actually quite simple. You stop measuring them. The government shutdown that just concluded left the country in something of a data ...

It’s strange to think of gaming without the internet. How did this then-niche subculture sustain, and view, itself? A new archive offers reviews, insight, history and lore.

From the bull and the horse who made themselves at home to a larger-than-life Indian Lionel Messi... They have also built a ...

Jenna had a simple request for the actor and entrepreneur in order to help her find the legendary jeans she wore in a classic ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

"Trying" and "Smoke" actor Rafe Spall is set to play the prime minister of England in Steven Moffat's new Channel 4 series, ...

A rare shipwreck, a gnome garden and 'Dragon's Teeth' defences are among the weird and wonderful historic structures that ...