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Football crazy England came to a standstill today to watch their team take on Slovenia in the crucial Group C match in the World Cup. Shopping centres and busy roads were deserted, and public transport and city centres were eerily quiet as millions of people across the nation watched their...

Usually, the start of the Glastonbury Festival is accompanied by torrential downpours leaving revellers sinking in the mud. This year, though, the start is accompanied by glorious sunshine, blue skies and sweltering heat - it's the weather which has made the government introduce a hosepipe ban...

How fitting it is that on the summer solstice, a time of peace and love, that a crop circle has appeared in a farmer's field right next to a heart-shaped wood. However, the farmer wasn't in the mood for love and pleace - he has said that the crop circle is an act of vandalism. The crop circle...

Clever students at one of the few Cambridge University colleges not set on the river have created a 200m canal to allow them to punt to their May Ball. Students from the breathtakingly beautiful 400-year-old Sidney Sussex spent a week building the canal, which is filled with 88,000 gallons of...

Sweden has just had what has probably been the biggest royal wedding in Europe since Charles and Diana married in 1981. More than 1000 guests, include royalty from across the world, gathered at Stockholm Cathedral to see Crown Princess Victoria, the daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf, marry her...

Whilst Barack Obama and many Americans continue to display their sickening anti-Britishness at a company that's about as British as Mount Rushmore following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it's sobering to learn that British soldiers are dying at FOUR times the rate American soldiers in...

An England football fan was today charged with trespass by South African police after he entered the England team's dressing room on Friday night following their woeful display against Algeria in the second match of their World Cup campaign to give the team a piece of his mind. England took on...

Never mind Superman, Spiderman or the Incredible Hulk. The greatest comic strip character in the world, of all time, is without doubt Roy of the Rovers. The power of x-ray vision or superstrength is nothing compared to the magic of a powerful left foot. Fictional footballer Roy Race first...

Why the French worship Napoleon as a hero is beyond me (though, come to think of it, they ARE French, so what do you expect?) because more proof has come to light as to just what a madman he was and that he was no more of a hero than Kaiser Bill and Hitler. After his defeat by Great Britain in...

An archaeologist has discovered what she hopes will be a lucky charm for the England lads at the World Cup in South Africa. Caroline Rann, an archaeologist for the county of Warwickshire, found a coat of arms which is believed to date back to the 1200s, featuring the Three Lions, England's...

One thing you can be almost certain of in a World Cup is for there to be a renewal of the intense English-German rivalry. In this tournament it's started despite the fact that England and Germany haven't even played each other (though they will play each other in the Last 16 if England top...

Thank God that Britain's isn't an ordinary, mundane, run-of-the-mill republic, otherwise it wouldn't have lavish ceremonies such as Trooping the Colour. The ceremony marks the official birthday of the Queen. She has two birthdays each year, her actual birthday in April, and her official...

The limitations of the human brain mean we may never understand the secrets of the universe, says Britain's top scientist. Lord Rees, who is the President of the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific institution, has said that questions about the big bang and the existence of parallel...

England and the United States met each other last night in the World Cup, the first time the two teams have met in this competition for 60 years. With all the sickening anti-Britishness coming out of the United States in recent weeks over the oil spill and Americans wrongly referring to the...

Many people speak of the "Special Relationship", the supposed closeness of Great Britain and the United States politically and militarily, two countries which are supposed to share the same values. But, when it comes to the actual people of Great Britain and the United States, there exists...

Archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the world's only well-preserved Roman gladiator cemetery - not in Rome but in the English city of York. Around 80 skeletons were found in a residential area of the ancient city and are believed to be 2,000 years old. The horrific injuries...

The Queen is to visit Ground Zero in New York next month during an eight-day stay in the US. Whilst there, she will also give her first address to the 192 members of the United Nations General Assembly since 1957. The monarch will also visit Wimbledon this summer for the first time since...

Joe Cole, probably England's most technically skillful player, has said that his World Cup experience means he deserves a place in England's starting line-up for their opening match of this year's World Cup, which is against the United States in Group C on Saturday at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium...

Twin baby girls are being treated in hospital after being savaged by an urban fox. Nine-month-olds Lola and Isabella Koupparis were sleeping in their cots in the Stoke Newington district of the London borough of Hackney on Saturday night when the fox crept in through the rear patio doors after...

The fact that Wednesday's gun spree, in which taxi driver Derrick Bird travelled 45-miles around the Lake District in Cumbria killing 12 people and injuring 25 took place in a rural area should hardly be surprising - after all, there are just 1.4 million legally registered shotguns in the whole...