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A large chunk of an American space rocket has been found in the sea off the Isles of Scilly. A large section of a spacecraft, measuring about 32ft by 13ft, was spotted on the surface between the islands of Bryher and Tresco. Coastguards believe it is from the unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 which...

A hoard of silver coins, some of which were issued by Roman general Mark Antony, has been discovered in a Welsh field more than 2,000 years after it was buried. While they have yet to be valued, the 91 coins have been hailed by history experts as 'a significant find' and could be worth...

The last surviving Royal Mail coach which was once attacked by a lion that had escaped from a travelling menagerie has gone on sale for an impressive £70,000. The 200-year-old horse-drawn carriage harks back to the golden age of the Royal Mail when town clocks could be set by their...

A hoard of more than 5,000 Anglo Saxon coins has been unearthed, including what may be a unique penny. The discovery, near Lenborough, Buckinghamshire, is said to be the biggest hoard of coins in modern times. It includes a uniquely-stamped coin which may be the results of a mix-up at the...

Wherever Niklas Frank goes he carries a photograph of his dead father. But it is not a snap of a cherished childhood memory – it’s a picture of his corpse. With trembling fingers he holds out the battered black-and-white image taken moments after his dad was hanged for murdering four million...

Trigger-happy Turkey has downed a Russian jet saying it strayed into its airspace, even though it seems that the jet was only in Turkish airspace for a matter of seconds. Russia, however, says its jet was in Syrian airspace and so, too, was the Turkish jet which shot it down. The shooting down...

An amateur metal detectorist in the UK has made an extraordinary find - a gold-carved ring depicting a nude portrait of Cupid, god of erotic love. The ring contains a dark onyx and blue engraved nicolo stone and may once have rested on the finger of a man or woman during the reign of...

Two new army strike forces, 600 new Ajax armoured vehicles, two new RAF squadrons, 450 more Royal Navy personnel, a doubling of the RAF's drone fleet, new marine surveillance planes and a trebling of the firepower of the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers have all been announced today by the...

The tragic direction of continental Europe over the last few years has vindicated several decisions taken by Britain. Europe’s chaos vindicates decisions Britain has made For a country to tolerate Britain’s level of immigration with no far-right backlash is nothing short of...

The Church of England is threatening legal action against a group of cinema chains which have broken equality laws by banning the screening of a film in which the Archbishop of Canterbury and members of the public recite the Lord’s Prayer – because they say it could be offensive to...

Wembley Stadium's Arch being lit up in the colours of the French flag and England fans being told to sing La Marseillaise on Tuesday night was understandable. After all, England were playing France just four days after the attacks in Paris and it was a nice way of showing solidarity with...

Why a great deal has been revealed by the differing reactions of the British Prime Minister and the US Secretary of State to the Paris attacks. The real clash of civilisation is in the West’s attitude to terror A great deal was revealed by the different reactions to Paris of our...

Prime Minister David Cameron will meet French President Francois Hollande in Paris on Monday to discuss the fight against terror. They will discuss how to co-operate on counter-terrorism and in the fight against Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq, UK officials said. Earlier Mr Cameron...

Samuel Pepys never intended his famous diaries to be made public. But without them, we would be denied his very colourful eyewitness accounts of 17th Century London life. How did he manage to be in the right place at the right time? Fire, plague and royalty - as seen by diarist Samuel...

Brussels, the capital of Belgium and the EU, has had its terror alert risen to the highest level fearing an attack "like the one that happened in Paris" last week. The fear was that "several individuals with arms and explosives could launch an attack... perhaps even in several places"...

Sadiq Khan, the MP for Tooting in south London who is Labour's candidate for the London mayoral election on 5th May 2016 (his main rival in the race to be the new Mayor of London will be Zac Goldsmith of the Conservative Party, but candidates from several other parties are also standing), has...

Fourteen months after the nationalists lost the independence referendum, former Scottish First Minister and former Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond’s former head of policy has said the SNP case for Scottish independence is dead. Case for independence ‘dead’ - former SNP policy...

A football fan has named his newborn son ‘Bermondsey Millwall Den’ without telling his wife. Millwall supporter Mike Bloomfield, 58, who grew up in Bermondsey, south-east London, where the League One club play their home games at The Den, made the decision. His wife Kellie, 38, told how...

Whilst Wembley Stadium in London was lit up in the colours of the French flag and English fans sang along to La Marseillaise before an impeccable minute's silence was held before the match against France on Tuesday night, 1,500 miles away in Istanbul it was different. The Muslim fans of Turkey...

An historic manor house previously owned by eight British monarchs over the course of a millennium has gone on the market for £2.1million. Arreton Manor on the Isle of Wight dates back to at least 872AD and its earliest known royal owner was King Alfred the Great. Charles I reviewed...