The British Olympic Association’s lifetime ban for drugs cheats violates the global anti-doping code, the World Anti-Doping Agency declared yesterday.

A Canadian mayor has put a 20-tonne rock on his ex-wife's driveway.

Insurgents launched a rare ground assault against Nato’s main military base in southern Afghanistan today, wounding several international service members in the second such attack on a major military installation this week.

Former 'Baywatch' star Pamela Anderson has joined other celebrities in a new ad campaign to save seals from the annual hunt on Canada’s East Coast.

Residents of a small Indian village in Canada braved the stormy waters off British Columbia’s north coast in fishing vessels and speedboats to help rescue 101 passengers and crew from a large ferry that hit a rock and sank.

CANADIAN scientists and Indians are competing in boats for the affections of a dangerously friendly killer whale off Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

A man survived a plunge over Niagara Falls with only the clothes on his back, witnesses said – the first person known to have done it and lived.

German aviation investigators are beginning to analyse the flight recorders of the two planes that collided over Germany on Monday night, killing 71 people.