Work to eradicate sectarianism and promote cross-community co-operation in Northern Ireland Support the transfer of policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly "strongly" pro-European ...

Un grupo de defensa de los derechos humanos dice tener pruebas de que el gobierno de Sudán respalda a las milicias árabes ...

BBC television will provide comprehensive coverage of the World Cup action. Match of the Day presenter and former England captain Gary Lineker will host coverage live from Germany. He will be ...

Yet, thanks to satellite imagery and the internet, North Korea's secretive world is gradually being unveiled. Here is a series of remarkable photographs showing aspects of North Korea's hidden world ...

International cricket is played in two different forms - Test matches and limited-overs games. Here are the key differences between the two. The easiest way to tell Test and limited-overs cricket ...

A no-ball is a delivery which does not count as one of the bowler's six legitimate balls in one over. The fielding team are penalised one run every time a no-ball is bowled, which is added to the ...

Teams start a match with the same resources - the number of overs they receive and number of wickets in hand. If a match is shortened once it is started, so the resources are reduced. For example, if ...

In the modern age of football there are many different roles and jobs a defender can have. And a wonderful sight in the game is seeing the wing-back fly up and down the touchline terrorising the ...

Cricket is basically a simple game - score more than the opposition. Two teams, both with 11 players, take it in turns to bat and bowl. When one team is batting, they try and score as many runs as ...

Israel has experienced a tumultuous and often violent existence over its 60 years as a nation. Click on the links below to watch and read key events in its history since its creation in 1948.

Find out the size details of a football pitch. Did you know that not all pitches are the same size? The length of a pitch must be between 100 yards (90m) and 130 yards (120m) and the width not less ...

In this example the top 100 websites have been depicted in proportion to the number of unique users they received in January 2010 A history of treemaps from the University of Maryland The data used to ...