Australia captain Alyssa Healy will retire from all forms of cricket following the upcoming series against India.The 35-year-old wicket-keeper has more than 7,000 runs and 275 dismissals to her ...

Victoria Gill, Kate Stephens and Gwyndaf Hughes,BBC News science teamandAhmed Nour,BBC News ArabicGetty ImagesGreat white sharks in the Mediterranean Sea are in danger of disappearing, with illegal fishing contributing ...

Mark Poynting,Climate researcher,Becky Dale,Senior data journalist, BBC VerifyandJess Carr,Data designerGetty ImagesRenewable energy - considered crucial to limiting climate change - produced a record amount of electricity in Great Britain ...

Conor McMenamin, who Robinson brought over from Northern Ireland two years ago, joked: "I didn't think it motivated us, we were all sad getting on the bus!"Injured captain Mark ...

A company director who described the Hillsborough disaster as a "great day" on an online football forum has been handed a suspended jail sentence.Paul O'Neill was convicted of sending ...

Great Britain and Northern Ireland failed to win a gold medal at a World Athletics Championships for the first time in 22 years, as they secured their joint-lowest overall ...

Winning the Derby in 1971 was the crowning moment in one of the finest seasons ever seen in the saddle.With Mill Reef he captured the Derby, the King George ...

Getty ImagesParts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the largest annual decline in coral cover since records began nearly 40 years ago, according to a new report.Northern and ...

A father tried in vain to save his teenage son before both drowned off the coast of Australia, an inquest has heard.Robin Reed and his son Owen, of Blackwood, ...

Adrienne MurrayTechnology ReporterReporting fromLongyearbyen, NorwayGetty ImagesNorway's Longyearbyen is the world's northernmost townHigh above the Arctic Circle, the archipelago of Svalbard lies halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole.Frozen, ...

Two British tourists have drowned off the coast of a popular tourist town at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef.A boy, 17, and a man, 46, were ...

Hundreds of schools and hospitals across the UK are set to receive £180 million for solar panels from the government's new state-owned energy company.The first major investment from Great ...