Houston guard Steve Francis made a political fashion statement before the Rockets played the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night. Francis, who's been out since last season with a knee injury, arrived at the arena wearing a red velvet sports jacket with "Barack Obama" spelled on the back in ...

A man who accidentally cut off his arm with a chainsaw carried the severed limb to a neighbour, who placed it in a bag of frozen pastries so it could be surgically reattached. John Stirling, from Telscombe Cliffs, near Brighton, is thought to have been cutting a tree in his garden when the chainsaw slipped and cut his arm below ...