Director Adam Shankman and drag queen actors explain putting a brilliantly madcap twist on Airplane! style parody ...

Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in Britain, says author Louis de Bernières ...

Leading authors including Sarah Waters, William Dalrymple, Bernardine Evaristo and Anne Enright reveal their perfect holiday reading ...

The actor on missing his late mother, Maggie Smith, being mistaken for Damian Lewis, and looking ‘like a fridge’ ...

A medical issue can send quotes for cover soaring but it is not worth risking going abroad without a policy ...

Haiti are on football’s grandest stage for the first time since 1974 and the squad drawn from far and wide are ‘hungry’ for success ...

Iran earlier released a list of terms it said were in a draft memorandum of understanding with the US ...

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Seb Hutchinson and Pablo Maurer as the USA begin their World Cup campaign ...

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes ...

Watching the squad presentation knowing I wasn’t in it was tough, but I have high hopes with Carlo Ancelotti in charge ...

All the action from Los Angeles Stadium where the final opening ceremony preceded the USMNT’s resounding victory over Paraguay in Group D ...

The young jockey is in flying form and tells Greg Wood her best shot at breaking her duck at the showpiece event of the Flat racing season ...