Hull will have an opportunity to exact a measure of revenge for their FA Cup final defeat to Arsenal after drawing the holders in January’s FA Cup third round.

Partial remains of several victims of the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States were incinerated by a military contractor and sent to a landfill site, a government report said.

The Kansas state Board of Education adopted new science standards for classrooms that, more than other such measures approved in the US, go further in challenging Darwin’s theory of evolution and redefine the word “science” itself.

A US school district went to court today to defend its policy of telling students that a higher power may have created life – an alternative to the evolution theory they are already learning.

A stowaway has died after jumping overboard in the English Channel after escaping from a ship’s jail today, coastguards said.

The draw for the first round of the FA Cup is as follows:

Two would-be asylum seekers today used children’s inflatable rafts in a desperate bid to paddle across the Channel.