KATHMANDU - BBC - British mountaineer Kenton Cool has reached the summit of Everest for a record-breaking eleventh time. Everest is the second of three summits he is attempting to reach in one continuous climb over the course of 10 days. If successful Mr Cool, who lives in Gloucestershire, will ...

LONDON - A British resident has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal SARS-like virus which they are believed to have caught from a family member, in the 11th confirmed case worldwide, officials said Wednesday. Britain’s Health Protection Agency said the person had no recent travel history, ...

LONDON (AFP) - A British man has been offered $1,00,000 for a strange-smelling rock his dog found on a beach, which is likely a rare form of whale vomit used in perfumes, the BBC reported Thursday.Ken Wilman was walking his dog Madge in the coastal town of Morecambe in northwest England when she ...

MELBOURNE - Scot Jamie Baker took another step on a remarkable comeback from a life-threatening blood disease Saturday by qualifying for the Australian Open.The British number two, behind Andy Murray, beat American Donald Young 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to make the Grand Slam main draw, more than four years ...

If anything can be said about record-breaking globetrotter Graham Hughes, it’s that - throughout his travels - he’s always kept his feet firmly on the ground. The 33-year-old adventurer, from Liverpool, has become the first person to visit all 201 countries in the world - without using ...

BEIJING (AFP) - A British sommelier smashed the world record for the number of wine glasses held in one hand, according to organisers of the event, handling 51 glasses to surpass the previous record of 39.Philip Osenton, a 43-year-old wine consultant based in Beijing, began handling dozens of ...

LONDON (AFP) - A British stuntman became the world’s first skydiver to land without a parachute on Wednesday, falling 731 metres (2,400 feet) to drop safely onto a crash-pad of cardboard boxes.Wearing a specially-made “wing suit”, Gary Connery leapt from a helicopter over ...

BANGKOK - Six human foetuses which had been roasted and covered in gold leaf as part of a black magic ritual have been seized from a British citizen in Bangkok, Thai police said Friday. Chow Hok Kuen, 28, who is of Taiwanese origin, was arrested with the grisly haul in the city's Chinatown, police ...

LONDON  - A London publisher is to issue a collection of translated poems by members of the Afghan Taliban, despite criticism that it is promoting propaganda by Britain’s enemies in the ten-year Afghan war. Poetry of the Taliban, to be issued by Hurst and Co on May 17, brings together ...

A rare lizard survived a 3,000-mile flight in a suitcase only to be put through the wash by an unsuspecting holidaymaker.Sue Banwell-Moore found the brown 6in Chioninia lizard among her washing after returning from a trip to the Cape Verde islands, off Western Africa.The company director, who lives ...

Two U.S. and one UK economist were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday for research on how policy affects unemployment. The prize went to Peter Diamond of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dale Mortensen of Northwestern University, and Christopher Pissarides of the ...

SINGER-songwriter Ellie Goulding has won the Brit Awards Critics Choice prize for the act most likely to break through next year. The 22-year-old, who was born in Hereford, was chosen by a panel of newspaper, magazine and website editors and record label bosses. When I found out, I had a little ...

WOBURN, Massachusetts, (AFP) - A British man convicted of shooting dead his wife and nine-month-old daughter was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without possibility of parole. "These crimes are incomprehensible. They defy comprehension because they involve the planned and deliberate murders ...