The Manchester City fan who ran on to the pitch and tried to confront Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand in yesterday’s derby match has apologised, his solicitors said today.

In one sense, the London riots defy explanation. All mob violence does.

Cate Blanchett has signed on for ‘The Hobbit’.

Charles J Hanley reports from New York on the troubling signs of climate change and efforts to cope

A SERIES of studies shows the world is “unequivocally” warming, scientists said yesterday as they confirmed the past decade was the hottest on record.

CLIMATE scientists hit back at the sceptics today with research they say has uncovered the “fingerprint” of manmade global warming.

Space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station for a weeklong stay, and the astronauts quickly unloaded a huge platform full of spare parts needed to keep the outpost running for another decade.

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts took a cross-country detour and landed safely in California after stormy weather prevented them from returning home to Florida for the second day in a row.

The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle and station closed the hatches between the linked spacecraft as Discovery got ready for its departure for Earth today.

Jonathan Ross was today nominated for a Bafta television award for his controversial chat show.

Veteran supermarket boss Ken Morrison today outlined plans to stand down as chairman of the Morrisons chain in January 2008.

Directors at Morrisons are threatening to quit over chairman Ken Morrison’s continued failure to appoint a new chief executive, it was reported today.

Anderson - Scully from The X Files - turns in a fine Northern accent in this Belfast-set tale of a little lad (McKenna) who helps out at Stott's greyhound kennels and falls for the mutt of the title.

Ken Morrison pledged to stay at supermarket group Morrisons for at least another year today in order to see through the troubled integration of Safeway.

Another Brit film set in the world, now a heavily clichéd one, of London gangsters and based on the familiar theme of revenge for the death of a sibling.

Police in Portugal should not use heavy-handed tactics to curb football hooliganism at Euro 2004, a psychologist said today.