From Springfield, Ohio, to the city's namesakes in West Virginia, Vermont and Illinois, resounds the exclamation: "Doh!" The creator of The Simpsons has broken his silence and revealed that the real-life inspiration for the animated series is the Springfield in Oregon.

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Woman claims 'D B Cooper', who bailed out of plane with $200,000 ransom, was her uncle.

A major search and rescue operation was launched yesterday after a number of swimmers at a charity event in Dorset went home without notifying organisers.

My parents were... timid towards the world. They passed that on, very much.

The considerable assets of Kenenisa Bekele have been in deep freeze since 9 January last year. At a snowbound Holyrood Park that Saturday afternoon the all-conquering Ethiopian king of distance running was reduced to a mere also-ran, finishing a shivering fourth in the 9km feature race in the Bupa Great Edinburgh International Cross Country meeting. It was only his second defeat in a cross-country race in eight years.

Tedium is a virtue of Kelly Reichardt's revisionist Western, a viscerally ponderous tale of 19th-century American pioneers travelling across Oregon at the speed of a creaking wagon wheel. Michelle Williams is in fine, flinty form as the piece's proto-feminist heroine, but it's the enveloping mood of paranoia and the Malickian immensity of Reichardt's camerawork that truly make this a slog to savour.

After parachuting into folklore in 1971, the hijacker known only as D B Cooper may finally be identified

Mo Farah looks set to focus solely on the 10,000 metres at the World Championships in Daegu next month.

Three anglers had to be rescued this morning after their fishing boat capsized and sank in the English Channel.

Rescuers looking for a missing scuba diver off the south coast of England have called off their search.