As Ed Vaizey offers to meet with the BBC to discuss the representation of women on air, it's time to highlight another minority group excluded by broadcasters - scientists Cleverness and science are to television what children and animals are to television. I first realised this during an episode of BBC Question Time, a politically-themed game show in which morons compete with a dimly-sentient ...
Portsmouth The Portsmouth Supporters Trust has received the backing of the City Council in its attempts to save the stricken club, reports BBC Sport . read more
Why silver in Argentina is good news for British hockey's Olympic hopes this summer
Captain Judy Murray hopes Britain can earn a home tie in the Fed Cup for the first time in 19 years.
Arsene Wenger challenged his Arsenal side to find consistency again after romping to a first Barclays Premier League win of 2012 as they thrashed 10-man Blackburn 7-1 at Emirates Stadium.
Before the global meltdown, financial news was strictly for geeks and struggled to get on the news. Now, financial correspondents have become celebrities Last year, there was an unexpected knock on the front door of Robert Peston's home in Muswell Hill, north London. When he answered, Peston, who has been the BBC's business editor since 2005, was confronted by a reporter from a local news agency ...
Sportsday Live featuring reaction to England's heavy defeat to Pakistan, the latest news from the Australian Open, and football transfer news plus more.
Sportsday Live featuring reaction to England's heavy defeat to Pakistan, the latest news from the Australian Open, and football transfer news plus more.
Burnley's home game against Scarborough in the Autoglass Trophy 20 years ago ended in a goalless draw but referee Terry Holbrook opted against playing extra time in the freezing conditions at Turf Moor, choosing instead to abandon the game.
Cameroon 'juju men' fail to help national football team
Bobby Zamora completes his £4m move to QPR and Tottenham sign Everton striker Louis Saha before the January transfer window closes.
Bobby Zamora completes his £4m move to QPR and Tottenham sign Everton striker Louis Saha before the January transfer window closes.
According to recent revelations by the BBC, the prize jury assigned to choose the winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature had among its nominees Graham Greene, Robert Frost, E.M. Forster, Isak (‘Out of Africa’) Dinesen, and Mr. Hobbit himself, J.R.R Tolkien. Instead, they chose an obscure teller of tall tales from Yugoslavia named Ivo Andric, whose obscurity has only deepened over the half ...
All times GMT. 0033: Well folks, another deadline day over. Thanks for your input - as ever it's been fun. We'll be back tomorrow to chew the fat on what happened, and what didn't.
PASADENA, Calif. -- HBO will roll out a full slate of new programs in the coming months -- beginning Jan. 29 with the Dustin Hoffman-Nick Nolte gambling drama "Luck" -- but fans of "Game of Thrones" will be most interested in this tidbit: The fantasy drama returns for its second season April 1.
THE widow of Wales manager Gary Speed tearfully revealed that days before he died he had "talked in terms of taking his life".
Great Britain's Jack Burrows wins gold and team-mate Aydin Djemal took silver in the 3000m mixed team short-track speed skating at the Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck.
Follow Jonathan Liew's live game-by-game commentary of the Australian Open final between the top two men's players in the world.
• Hit F5 for the latest or select our auto-refresh button below • Read all the deadline-day gossip in The Rumour Mill • And email your thoughts to john.ashdown@guardian.co.uk 9.50pm: And here's Jamie Jackson's full rundown of Ravel Morrison's move to West Ham: The deal finally went through at around 8.30pm after Morrison passed a medical. Morrison's salary will start at around £12,000 a week ...
Follow us as we find out what the Guardian developers have built in their two-day hack day Hello, world! Hello, world! 3.41pm: Welcome back to the Guardian's hack day live blog. If you were around yesterday , you'll know that our software developers have had two days off their normal work. Instead they've been hacking and working on prototypes of what the future of the Guardian's webs site and ...
