The leader of a team of British engineers behind a new land speed record has said he is "incredibly proud" of the achievement. On Wednesday, the JCB Hydromax reached a speed of 406.3mph (654km/h) at ...

The women's 800m world record was set in 1983 by Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova but no-one has managed to break it for ...

It looks like a yellow rocket on wheels, shoots across the ground faster than most planes take off and is powered by one of the lightest gases in the Universe. British driver Andy Green has set a new ...

Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson begins her heptathlon campaign at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham - watch live.

Russell Westbrook, the NBA’s career leader in triple-doubles and the 2017 MVP, announced Wednesday he’s retiring after 18 seasons during which he was selected to the league’s 75th anniversary team.

US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said that 94% of the hiring goal has been met, with the most ever employed in a single year.

Ryan Murphy continues to dominate television with diverse series like Glee and 9-1-1, now co-creating The Shards, a 1981 Los ...

Melania Tr*mp has a complicated relationship with the spotlight. The famously-silent First Lady managed to have an entire documentary made about her White House role without letting slip a single ...

A record 230 people crossed the English Channel in a single boat on Monday.

I misplaced my Shakespeare’s Pizza cup the other day. A Shakespeare's Pizza cup sits on Tony Messenger's desk next to his ...

Drought is gripping large parts of Europe, with soils unusually dry and major rivers running low. A strengthening El Nino could push global temperatures even higher later this year.

Turning a video into 3D character motion means extracting the movement of a real performer from ordinary footage and applying ...