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The leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, has got support from the Republican Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. With Prime Minister Gordon Brown seeming to distance himself from the Americans more than Blair did, it seems the Tory leader is now winning affection with...

Millions of people in both England and France are set to tune in tonight for the titanic clash between the two countries in the Semi-Final of the Rugby World Cup. England beat France 24-7 at the same stage in the last World Cup in 2003 and went on to beat Australia in the Final. And it's a...

What has Al Gore done for world peace? Damian Thompson 12/10/2007 The Telegraph So Al Gore is the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Admittedly, he has to share it with the United Nations’ climate change panel - but, even so, I think we need to declare an international smugness alert...

The Great War was a war of many "firsts" - it was the first war to use aircraft, the first war to use tanks and the first war to use aircraft carriers, the latter two both being used by the British first. It was also the first of two giant wars that devastated Europe. At the time, Britain was...

Horrified residents in London called police when explosions seemed to hit the giant Battersea Power Station on the edge of the Thames, probably fearing a terrorist attack. But it turned out that a scene from the new Batman movie was being filmed. Most, if not all, of the Batman movies were...

The Queen today opened a giant new war memorial in Alrewas, Staffordshire. It is a memorial for all British military personnel who have been killed since the Second World War. The memorial looks, from above, similar to Stonehenge. It has a giant obelisk which represents all British military...

Oxfordshire supergroup Radiohead were formed in 1986. On 7th October they released their seventh studio album - In Rainbows - as an MP3 download and is scheduled to be released on 3rd December as a "discbox" with a second CD of additional material. The band are to finalise a record deal sometime...