Who are the real winners and losers in this year's Academy Award nominations?

Eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt officially calls time on his pursuit of a career in professional football, declaring his "sports life over".

Papal bodyguards ditch old metal helmets for lighter, cooler, cheaper PVC edition.

After #GetTonyAFlypast started trending online the RAF have said they’ll perform a flyby to commemorate the anniversary of 10 airmen’s deaths.

Noor Husin was born into a city on the frontline of Afghanistan's civil war. Now he is at Notts County and dreaming of the World Cup.

English snooker player David Gilbert makes the 147th official 147 maximum break, 37 years after Steve Davis registered the first.

Emiliano Sala, known as the 'local Carlos Tevez', was a player who bloomed late, was teased by team-mates and loved detective novels.

Jan Siewert becomes the third consecutive Borussia Dortmund second-team coach to leave for an English club - Simon Stone looks at why.

A DNA test carried out by scientists shows the man jailed in Spandau prison was Rudolf Hess.

Three men and a boy are charged with conspiracy to attack an Islamic community in New York state.

Missing Cardiff forward Emiliano Sala is a "fighter" and "wonderful character", says Fulham boss Claudio Ranieri, who managed him at Nantes.

A rights group has criticised authorities for using soldiers to quell protests over fuel price rises.

Outrage over the killing of a university student has renewed debate about women's safety.

Leyla Guven was jailed for criticising a Turkish military operation. She is now struggling to drink.

The government claims there have been no major terror attacks in India under the current government.

Their football dreams were threatened by convention - and housework - but girls in one Mumbai slum are defying tradition to pursue their dreams.

Boy sells his drawings to help his mother during the partial government shutdown in the US.

Doreen Fletcher painted urban scenes of London between 1983 and 2004.

A company in Israel is using virtual reality computer games to help patients deal with chronic pain.

For two years Asante McGee was R. Kelly's girlfriend. Then she went to live in his house in Georgia. She lasted three weeks.

Will Novak was accidently invited to a stranger's bachelor party. He decided to attend and went viral.