England dropped Jonny Wilkinson on Wednesday from their starting side to play France in the Six Nations international in Paris on Saturday, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) announced. The fly-half paid the price for failing to spark England's backs in their lacklustre 15-15 draw away to Scotland last weekend, with the Toulon stand-off's place taken by former Newcastle ...

Pope Benedict XVI will visit Scotland and England in September in a four-day visit combining preaching and diplomacy, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday. British officials described it as an unprecedented "papal visit with the status of a state visit," though some of the usual trappings laid on for a ...

Pope Benedict XVI will make the first ever official papal visit to Britain with a four-day trip in September, the government announced Tuesday. The September 16-19 visit by the 82-year-old pontiff, at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II, will see the first official meeting between the British monarch and a pope. The visit, which follows recent tensions between the Vatican ...