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European Geostrategy release data each year showing the ranking of the world's most powerful countries. But this is not power by just military means. They have chosen four different categories – cultural pull, diplomatic influence, economic strength and military reach – with each divided into...

Tests are being carried out to establish the genetic condition of the Elephant Man. A team at Queen Mary University of London is using new techniques to extract DNA from his bones. Previous attempts failed because the skeleton was cleaned with bleach-like agents. The Elephant Man - whose real...

The BBC's new adaptation of the Three Musketeers starts on BBC1 tonight. The classic tale of Alexandre Dumas' Musketeers is well-trodden ground, but the new BBC interpretation promises a modern take on the story - while still set in 17th Century Paris. The new 10-part series is about to hit...

A 16-year-old boy from Bristol has become the youngest person ever to trek to the South Pole. Lewis Clarke spent 48 days at temperatures as low as -58F and winds of up to 120 mph. He arrived at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station at 18:00 GMT after completing the gruelling 702-mile journey...

A former aide to Margaret Thatcher, Lord McAlpine of West Green, has died aged 71. He was today hailed as a 'towering' political figure who had been successful within and outside of public life. In 2012 he was wrongly accused by the odious Left of being a paedophile, when allegations were...

Archaeologists believe that some bones found in a box at Winchester City Museum may belong to those of Anglo-Saxon monarch King Alfred the Great. However, there is also a chance the remains could belong to his son, King Edward the Elder. Archaeologists at the University of Winchester carried...

The Queen's granddaughter and British Olympian Zara Phillips gave birth to a baby girl in the early hours of this morning. Zara's husband, England Rugby Union star Mike Tindall, was present at the birth at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. The girl, whose name has not yet been confirmed...

Next month archaeologists are to start excavating the remains of a 6th century church which is thought to be Britain's oldest place of Christian worship. St Piran's Oratory, near Perranporth, on the north coast of Cornwall (England's most southerly and most westerly county), has been encased...

A few bones are all that have been found inside a mysterious room in a Scottish castle that was recently opened for the first time in 500 years. The room, measuring just six feet high and six feet across, is located inside the ancient ruins of Mingary Castle near Kilchoan on the bleak and...

Two schoolboys sparked a bomb scare when they returned home from metal detecting in a field - by bringing two WWII anti-tank shells home with them. The boys, Kane Byrne and Alex Taylor, both 12, from Folkestone, Kent, were looking for trinkets and coins when they discovered the shells from...

39 skulls found within the ancient part London 25 years ago are now thought to be those of gladiators killed whilst entertaining Roman audiences. The 39 skulls were found in 1988 beneath the site of the Guildhall within the City of London, central London. The boundaries of the City of London...

Diaries from British soldiers serving on the frontline during World War I have been placed online by the National Archives. Events from the outbreak of war in 1914 to the departure of troops from Flanders and France were recorded in official diaries of each military unit. About 1.5 million...

Gerald Warner: Global warming’s deranged disciples Global warming's disciples are impoverishing Europe, argues Gerald Warner. Picture: TSPL by Gerald Warner 12 January 2014 CLIMATE change is real and it is happening very fast. The climate of opinion, that is, regarding the...

I don't believe you. Back in 1888 parts of North America were hit with a severe cold wave. It led to a blizzard for the northern Plains and upper Mississippi valley where many children were trapped in schoolhouses where they froze to death. The winter of 1911/12 was also exceptionally cold...

I think you'll find that it's the warmists who find it unusual that Canada gets get cold in the winter. They have been trying to blame the cold weather on global warming.

Only global warmists can think it unusual that a desert country like Australia gets hot in summer.

The ghosts aren't a hoax. Just some of the mediums like Derek Acorah. In 2005, the Most Haunted team went to do a 24 hour investigation at Bodmin Moor Gaol in Cornwall. The gaol was open from 1779 to 1927 and is now largely creepy ruins. Acorah, who was the show's first medium since it...

It's won't be as good as Most Haunted, which has just returned after a three year absence (online at the moment but director and one of the stars, Karl Beattie, is currently scouting haunted locations for a new TV series of the show).

We've heard it all now. And just think, there are some berkish, divvy, pillocky, dipsticks out there, including on this forum, who will actually believe it.

A film uploaded on the video-sharing site Vimeo shows London in 1927 in colour. The film shows the other side to London - complete with quiet streets, police guiding traffic and tradesman standing on the back of carts as they trundle along the roads. It was shot by an early British pioneer of...