Cannondale rider Sagan wins second successive stage

The Scottish league leaders lost 3-0 to the Italian side

A castle of your own? A treehouse just for two? A private castaway island? Aoife O’Riordain reveals that small is beautiful when it comes to romantic retreats

A 10-year-old British girl died after ploughing into a tree on a family skiing holiday in Austria, local police said.

Mountain rescue teams recovered the body of a missing hillwalker in the Cairngorms today after five companions, who had also gone missing in “hellish” conditions on the mountains, were located and airlifted to safety.

It will not be much consolation to the family concerned to know that it is highly unusual for a fox to attack a small child in its cot. Nor should outsiders be too censorious about people living in suburbs close to the countryside who leave a door or a window open. Nowadays foxes are routinely spotted in city centres, trying their luck at half-open rubbish bins or just taking a stroll, and there is a reason why they have the reputation of being cunning.

The chief of the Los Angeles Police Department said he would order an investigation into the sacking in 2008 of Christopher Dorner, a fugitive former officer suspected of three killings in southern California.

Mysterious caves in remote Thailand reveal their secrets to Lucy Winstanley Norris

Championship side seeking replacement for Alex McLeish

Women are making boardroom strides after conquering Africa's highest peak

Soldiers from Chad have occupied a former rebel bastion in northern Mali, completing the reconquest of all the populous areas overrun by Islamist insurgents.

Kim Sengupta follows a student’s hunt for his loved one from Bamako to Timbuktu

Eight people were killed on a California highway early today in a crash involving a tour bus and two other vehicles.