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Cambridge University has unveiled the world's "greenest" supercomputer. Wilkes - named after British computing pioneer Maurice Wilkes - will be used for development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). When complete the SKA will be the biggest radio telescope ever made. The computer's power...

Jesus is the most famous person in history, followed by Napoleon and Mohammed, according to a new internet search programme. The software, developed in the US, scours the internet for opinions expressed about famous people and uses a special algorithm to predict how important they will remain...

Muslim protesters, including creepy-looking women clad head to foot in burkhas, gathered on London's Brick Lane to demand that businesses there stop selling alcohol - and that they face 40 lashes if they don't. The protest was led by hate cleric Anjem Choudhary, the former leader of banned...

I bought a kangaroo burger from one of the stalls on the huge Christmas market in the centre of the brilliant city of Liverpool on Saturday evening last week. Liverpool is a place I'd recommend a visit to. Apart from eating kangaroo, I also visited the Cavern Club and had my photo taken with...

No. Packham's show was the first to do it.

They've obviously copied that BBC programme hosted by Chris Packham - The Burrowers: Animals Underground.

Britain currently has two advantages over Germany: its population is growing rapidly, faster than any other country in Europe, contributing to about a third of total annual EU population growth, as a result of both immigration and a high birth rate, whilst Germany's shrinks. And Britain is...

Doctor Who fans have set up a petition calling for a newly-discovered planet to be named Gallifrey after the Doctor's home world. The petition has so far received 80,000 signatures, with 50,000 of them coming in the last 24 hours alone. The planet, whose original name is the less catchy HD...

Comedian, actor and director Ricky Gervais has spoken of his sadness at the demise of the building that featured in the opening credits of The Office. Gervais starred in the BBC comedy series as pompous and snide David Brent, the boss of the Slough, Berkshire branch of the Wernham Hogg Paper...

Stonehenge may have been a prehistoric centre for, literally, rock music, according to a new study. According to experts from London's Royal College of Art, some of the stones sound like bells, drums, and gongs when they are 'played' - or hit with hammers. Archaeologists, who have pondered...

70 sandbags of soil from WWI battlefields has arrived in Britain. The soil, collected by British and Belgian schoolchildren, arrived in London yesterday from just across the Channel aboard the Belgian Navy frigate Louisa Marie. At the Menin Gate, which commemorates all those British and...

Archaeologists have uncovered 18 medieval skeletons at Durham Cathedral, but have been left baffled by their unusual alignment. The team members first thought they had uncovered remains of Durham Cathedral’s medieval cemetery, the boundaries of which may have extended further than the present...

A Muslim convert held a British soldier by the hair and tried to hack off his head 'like a butcher attacking a joint of meat' after knocking him down with a car at 40mph, the Old Bailey heard today. Drummer Lee Rigby was 'mutilated, almost decapitated and murdered' by Michael Adebowale, 22...

Archaeologists have discovered a rare board game piece from the 7th century which casts raucous Anglo-Saxon feasts in a new light. The archaeologists, from the University of Reading, were excavating an Anglo-Saxon royal great hall in Lyminge, Kent when they unearthed the gaming piece in the...

Britain has formally protested to the Spanish authorities after Spanish police opened a diplomatic bag at the border with Gibraltar. The Foreign Office said diplomatic bags were "inviolable" and opening one was "a serious infringement" of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. The...

With ten months to go until the Scottish independence referendum, Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has shown once again that the Scottish nationalists, despite wanting independence from the most successful political, economic and monetary union in history, they still want to keep some of...

Ian Watkins, vocalist of Welsh rock band Lostprophets, has pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court to a series of child sex offences, including attempting to rape a baby. The band, who formed in Pontypridd in 1997, spilt up last month. Lostprophets' Ian Watkins guilty of child sex offences...

In his new book, Daniel Hannan, a Europhobe Tory Member of the European Parliament, asks why the English-speaking peoples, who invented freedom, now shy away from the uniqueness of their achievement. He believes that Lefty, liberal self-loathing has made the people of Britain - the nation that...

A Welsh politician and Oxford University are at war over 33,000 year old human remains. Byron Davies, the AM (Assembly Member) for South Wales in the National Assembly for Wales (Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru), has asked the university to return the remains of the Red Lady of Paviland, which...

A couple of years ago, Angie and Rhodri Powell were redecorating their 16th Century home in Milverton, Somerset, when they unconvered an almost lifesize mural of King Henry VIII, who ruled England and Ireland from 1509 to 1547. The discovery excited them, particularly when told by an expert...