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The new design for the $5 note has been mocked online with many pointing out that the Queen's 'digitally altered' face looks 'strange' and others saying it seems to be covered in 'bacteria'. Thousands have taken to social media to slam the Australian banknote which features Queen...

Actor, TV presenter and author Stephen Fry has made some intelligent remarks - so intelligent, in fact, that the right-on Twitterati are raging. The QI presenter and former Blackadder star, 58, has sparked outrage after criticizing the idea of safe spaces and trigger words, and saying that...

Archaeologists in Mongolia are slowly unwrapping the mummy of a suspected ancient woman found preserved in the Altai Mountains. So far only one hand and her feet in modern-looking boots are visible, but experts believe the find dates to around 1,500 years ago. It also appears to be...

The wife of singer Sir Tom Jones has died after a "short but fierce battle with cancer", it has been announced. Lady Melinda Rose Woodward - known as Linda - who was married to the star for 59 years, died on Sunday morning at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. "Surrounded by her...

A leading Tudor historian has made an important discovery in an unlikely place – eBay. Alison Weir believes that a 19th-century engraving on the internet shopping site could be a 'lost' 16th-century portrait of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England. The sitter's lavish necklace bears the initials of...

A Labour councillor has been suspended from the party over anti-Semitic comments on her Twitter account. A message on Luton councillor Aysegul Gurbuz's Twitter feed claimed Hitler was the "greatest man in history". Another tweet on Ms Gurbaz's account suggested Iran could develop a nuclear...

Say what you like about the recent spate of leaks, none have led to people having their testicles ritually crushed. Nor, as far as we know, has anyone been locked in a temple until they starved to death. Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are not universally popular, but even their most...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are meeting children in Mumbai for a game of cricket after landing in the city this morning to begin their first royal tour as a couple for almost two years. They were given an enthusiastic welcome upon their arrival at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel...

Parishioners had to wait for their new toilet after skeletons dating from as far back as the Anglo-Saxon era were unexpectedly found at a church. Some 40 graves lay just 18in below a path outside Holy Trinity Church in Hildersham, Cambridgeshire. Archaeologists examined 19 intact...

Just past 5.30am on January 20, 1838, Sergeant John Robinson was watching over hundreds of criminals detained on a ship heading to Australia when he heard a commotion in the waters below. A convict had escaped from his bolted cell on the William Jardine ship heading from Dublin to...

Daniel Hannan, one of the three Conservative Members of the European Parliament for the South East of England (along with four Ukip MEPs, one LibDem MEP, one Labour MEP and one Green MEP), hopes that he will soon be out of a job - because that would mean the British people have voted for Brexit...

Here are some of history's most famous monarchs in pictures... In pictures: kings and queens through history With...

It was the last pitched battle to be fought on British soil, ending the hopes of the Jacobite uprising and Bonnie Prince Charlie's claims to the throne. Now a skull found on the battlefield of Culloden is helping to reveal the brutality of the fighting that ended the rebellion against...

Dutch voters have rejected a proposed EU-Ukraine treaty in a victory for the Brexit campaign and Russian president Vladimir Putin. The referendum in Holland had asked citizens to vote on closer political, defence and trade ties between the EU and Ukraine. But the resounding rejection was...

England’s first grand slam since 2003. That will be my abiding memory of this year’s Six Nations rugby tournament, a competition in which we saw England bounce back from their World Cup humiliation in rip-roaring fashion under the impeccable leadership of new boss Eddie Jones. Typically...

Hats, soap, cooking oil and covering up breasts in public: these are amongst the things which have been taxed over the years... Top 10: history’s oddest taxes...

Communities across the UK are being encouraged to hold vigils to mark the centenary of World War One's Battle of the Somme. The government and the Royal British Legion are inviting villages, towns and cities to organise their own remembrance events alongside national and international...

A military dog who lost her leg on duty in Afghanistan has received a vet charity's medal honouring the work of animals in war. Lucca, a 12-year-old German Shepherd, suffered injuries including the loss of a leg during a search for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in 2012. She received...

Dr Anna Whitelock is an early modern history don at London University. I don't know about her early modern history – but she's certainly not much good at modern history. She's just said that, by 2030, the monarchy could be on its last legs; that the popularity of the monarchy is linked to...

The Final England 155-9 (20 overs): Root 54, Buttler 36, Brathwaite 3-23 West Indies 161-6 (19.4 overs): Samuels 85*, Brathwaite 34*, Willey 3-20 West Indies celebrate their World T20 success which came in a nailbiting final over in a closely fought match West Indies have narrowly beaten...