You have to hand it to Steve Jobs and his team: despite the boss being off work for months after a liver transplant, and the subsequent anxieties over the future of the computer corporation, Apple has defied the consumer recession with a year-on-year...

Emotions ran high at Christian Lacroix on the second day of Paris haute couture week, as cheers and tears marked what could be the designer's final high-fashion collection. Lacroix, one of France's most theatrical and best-loved designers, faces...

"A multi-millionaire socialist, a republican Knight of the Realm, a proud Scotsman long-resident in the tax haven of the Bahamas, Sir Sean Connery is indeed a man of many surprises and contradictions,"...

Burma's longest-serving political prisoner, 78-year-old journalist Win Tin, was freed today after 19 years behind bars...

It's another make or break Christmas in the Premier League with plenty of big matches to savour between helpings of left-over turkey. Chelsea have the chance to…

Tower Bridge illuminated by fireworks as three million revellers saw in the new millennium on the night of December 31, 1999. It didn't all go smoothly: the much-hyped 'River of…

Usain Bolt breaks the 100m world record at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Jamaican sprinter stunned the world, breaking both the 100m and 200m records in 2008 - then he…

A robin redbreast in the snow in Leipzig, eastern Germany during the recent cold snap. Photo: Sebastian Willnow

Fresh from steering France towards next year's World Cup finals with that infamous handball, Thierry Henry is set to return to England. The Daily Mirror reports that…