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American footballers will have an excuse if they are feeling a little spooked at this year's World Cup - their base for the tournament is haunted by a 19th century British redcoat. The soldier, resplendent in his bright red uniform, has regularly been seen at Irene Country Lodge HQ in Gauteng...

The tribespeople of West Papua have been celebrating David Cameron becoming British Prime Minister. The people of West Papua, a province of Indonesia, have been wanting independence and to become a nation in their own right. And they hope that Cameron will help in their bid for independence...

New Prime Minister David Cameron showed American presidents and the previous Labour administration a thing or two when it comes to travelling from one place to another. As the new-look Parliament convened for the first time since the General Election, Cameron decided to walk to the Palace of...

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today pledged the boldest rolling back of the state in 180 years, promising to axe the communist Labour's Big Brother Britain as well as move to make sweeping political and electoral reforms. Clegg, who is in charge of constitutional affairs, claimed...

Mystery of Wem "ghost" solved by an 88-year-old postcard and an eagled-eyed pensioner For almost 15 years, the Wem photograph, which appears to show the ghost of a young girl standing amongst the flames of the Shropshire village's burning town hall, has been one of the most famous ghost...

England's cricketers today beat their fiercest rivals Australia to win their first limited overs world title. Both teams reached today's World Twenty20 Final (a tournament of the 20 overs version of cricket, the game's shortest form) in impressive circumstances, with Australia having won all...

The great things about living in Britain, other than the fact we no longer have a Labour government, is that it is often described as the most haunted country on Earth. But with such a treasure trove of ancient buildings this is hardly surprising. Ghosties and ghoulies seem to be more ingrained...

A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the Royal Navy does not keep an archive of sea monster sightings. Royal Navy sailors can report any strange sightings in their ship's log but they are not required to do so, and the information is not assembled in a central archive dedicated...

New British Defence secretary Liam Fox has attacked Britain's EU "partners" for not pulling their weight in Afghanistan. Scotsman Mr Fox, in his first interview as Defence Secretary, has said that he would make it a priority to reform Britain's riole in NATO and make sure other countries play...

Stephen Timms, the MP for East Ham in London, is in a stable condition in hospital after being stabbed by a crazed woman. The Labour Party's Mr Timms was holding his surgery - where members of the public get to speak to him about constituency issues concerning them - in the East End when the...

Britain's new Foreign Secretary, William Hague, met his US counterpart Hillary Clinton in Washington yesterday. For many people, it may be a bit of a blessing that David Miliband is no longer Foreign Secretary as Hillary Clinton has a bit of a crush on him, once describing him as 'vibrant...

A 380 feet (116 metres) tall twisted beacon, taller than Britain's Houses of Parliament, is to be unveiled to commemorate the Battle of Britain. The memorial may be built at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, north west London, and will be so tall that it would be visible from the centre of...

What on Earth has Hollywood done to Robin Hood? In the new Robin Hood movie, starring Australian Russell Crowe, who comes from a country in which the year 1910 is considered ancient history, Sherwood Forest is no longer a jolly place inhabited by tight-wearing merry men. There are no merry men...

If Gordon Brown was a buffalo, then the photos shown below will probably have been stills from a heartbreaking scene from a new David Attenborough documentary showing the animal's last moments after it was mauled by a pack of lions. But these photos show the finals moments of a wounded...

Usually, peacocks are at home strutting proudly around the scorching landscape of the Indian subcontinent. Where you don't expect to see these magnificent birds is the wilds of deepest, darkest Derbyshire. One day, Sheru the peacock arrived at the Derby home of Bhajan and Kulwinder Pabla...

In 1701, the Act of Settlement was passed. At the time, William III was on the Throne. In order to preclude Catholics from the Throne, the act stated that if the king, William III, and his sister-in-law, Princess Anne, had none of their children come to the Throne, then the Crown should be...

The day after ushering in David Cameron as the 12th Prime Minister of her reign, the Queen showed her sense of humour today whilst attending a function with the Lord Mayor of London's exquisitely dressed bodyguards. In a ceremony which could not be more British, the Queen sat to pose for a...

In 1666, English scientist Sir Isaac Newton was in his garden in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire when he noticed an apple fall from a tree. Legend has it that the apple landed on his head, and he instantly came up with the concept of universal gravitation. In actual fact, the apple didn't land on...

Lambeth Palace in London is not only the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is also a treasure trove of artefacts from some of the most momentous occasions in British history. These treasures include the death warrant of Mary Queen of Scots, who was executed by her cousin, Queen...

Britain woke up this morning finding itself being ruled by the Conservatives for the first time since 1997; being ruled by the Liberals for the first time since WWII; and being run by a coalition government for the first time since WWII. The result of Britain's first hung parliament since...