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Mysterious carvings which have lain in the bleak, windswept Northumberland countryside for 6,000 years have been given protective status. The rock art, older than the Pyramids of Egypt, has kept archaeologists guessing for centuries. According to English Heritage, more than 5,000 separate...

Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled a robot that can run, sit and even mimic the movement of a soldier. Costing over £1 million and using F1 technology, Porton Man will test protective suits and equipment. Porton Man has more than 100 sensors over its body to record data during...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence than Offa's Dyke is 200 years older than previously thought. Samples from Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust excavations on a stretch of the dyke have been radiocarbon dated to the second half of the 6th Century. Historians have always associated the dyke...

This is the dramatic moment a Queen's Guard raised his bayonet at a would-be intruder. Tosin Odunaiya, a Nigerian who is in Britain illegally, had been ranting at the royal protection officers for five minutes before a Guard strode 50 yards over to him and challenged Odunaiya with his bayonet...

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has said that militant atheists should "get over it" and accept that the UK is a Christian nation Pickles hit out at opponents of religion who try and “impose” their “politically correct intolerance”. Mr Pickles in 2012 changed the law to ensure that...

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, has opened to the public for the first time since it hosted the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. Alongside venues for sport and the arts, London's newest park features interactive water fountains and an adventure playground...

The first ever state visit to the UK by an Irish head of state starts on Tuesday. Michael D Higgins, the ninth president of what is now the Republic of Ireland since it seceded from the UK in 1922, will address both Houses of Parliament, another first for an Irish head of state. Mr Higgins...

The world's first aircraft carrier, which was found rusting on the banks of the Thames in 1996, has been restored - and it shows how far we have come in aircraft carrier technology in the last 100 years. The craft is the only surviving example of a seaplane lighter and it was salvaged by...

New Zealand actor Russel Crowe has met the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, at the Archbishop's residence Lambeth Palace in London. Mr Crowe is playing the title role in biblical drama Noah, which is currently topping the US Box Office. His visit to the principal, earthly leader...

Two of the world's great figureheads met today in the world's smallest country. Queen Elizabeth II, the Supreme Governor (not the leader, because Jesus Christ is the leader) of the 27-million-strong Church of England and the Head of State of 134 million people met Pope Francis, the leader of...

Five blocks are flats in Glasgow are to be demolished - as part of the Opening Ceremony for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Six Red Road flats - which have dominated part of the city's skyline for 50 years - are remaining and five of them will be demolished in the biggest demolition of...

A pair of white storks nesting in Norfolk could be the first in the UK to breed from a traditional nest for nearly 600 years. The birds are nesting on an 18th century chimney of former stately home Thrigby Hall at Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens near Great Yarmouth and are involved in...

According to a well-known historian, Henry VIII didn't have six wives - he had seven. In an article published anonymously in the journal Tudor Matrimonial Studies, a historian has revealed that the former king married Anne Mourgan in 1538 – less than a year after the death of his third wife...

People across England are being warned to avoid strenuous activity due to smog consisting of sand from the Sahara and local and European emissions. Much of southern and central England has been coated with a layer of Saharan dust, whilst visibility is low due to the smog. The elderly and those...

Could this be a what we see in our cities later this century? Londoners Christopher Christophi and Lucas Mazarrasa have come up with the concept of vertical railway stations. The idea is to rid big cities like London and New York of their huge, cathedral-like railway stations and free up...

With a Taliban fighter looming in his sights half a mile away, the British sniper knew a clean shot would take down his enemy. What he could not have known was that the single bullet he fired would account for five more insurgents. But, incredibly, his rifle round triggered the explosive...

Last week, during a live televised debate on the EU between anti-EU UKIP leader Nigel Farage and pro-EU Liberal Democrats leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Farage accused the EU of having ‘blood on its hands’ for provoking Russia over Ukraine. He said EU leaders had been ‘weak and...

A fearless British secret agent in occupied France, a drunken poet and the man who dreamed up Desert Island Discs. At first glance, they may not have had much in common, but the ten men and women commemorated in a new set of Royal Mail stamps would all have celebrated their 100th...

Startled tribal men in a remote part of the Amazon basin in Brazil shake their spears as they are pictured from above. The pictures, shot from a plane earlier this week, were taken of the isolated tribe on the Peruvian border. It is thought the tribe have had little to no contact with the...

Black Sabbath are to play at this year's British Summer Time (BST) festival in London's Hyde Park. The Birmingham downer rock band, who invented heavy metal, are to play the opening night of the festival - which has been nicknamed Black Sabbath Time (BST) - on July 4th. Vocalist/harmonica...