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Explosives inside Stormont Security alert ... Stormont evacuated. Michael Stone is a Loyalist (pro-British) soldier who has carried out attacks against the IRA - once killing three mourners at a funeral for dead IRA members. Before being found with a suspect package inside the Northern...

Russian spy was killed by radiation 24th November 2006 Alexander Litvinenko died yesterday The British goverment have confirmed the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by radiation. A large quantity of alpha radiation - probably from a substance called...

A Muslim man, who was fasting during Ramadan, has been jailed for two months for killing a swan. All swans in Great Britain belong to the Monarch. When told of this , Shamshu Miah said "I hate the Queen. I hate this country." So why the hell did he choose to live here...

Hubble telescope's top ten greatest space photographs By MICHAEL HANLON, Daily Mail's Science Editor 23rd November 2006 For a while it looked as if the whole mission would end in embarrassing failure. After it was launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope, a $1.5 billion...

Britain's favourite nursery rhymes have been changed and given themes more relevant to 21st-Century Britain..... Nursery rhymes get naughty By MICHAEL DEACON November 23, 2006 BRITAIN'S best-loved nursery rhymes have been given a 21st century facelift – and the new versions are...

CRICKET THE ASHES 2006/07 Australia have got off to a good start in the Ashes, but they should still be wary - they were off to a flier last year, but England went on to win. Sportsmail's Mike Dickson reports from Brisbane as Ricky Ponting wins round one of the Ashes battle By MIKE...

Britain shows that it still makes the best TV in the world after it swept the board at the International Emmy Awards. Now, Americans wish to remake some of Britain's famous comedies and other TV shows. The Times November 22, 2006 US orders remakes of British shows that...

The unacknowledged soldiers injured while serving their country By DAN NEWLING and TOM KELLY 22nd November 2006 Recovering: Sergeant Mick Brennan lost both his legs in Iraq. Battle-scarred but unbowed, these photographs show for the first time just some of the thousands of...

Queen given peace pipe at native American ceremony 22nd November 2006 The Queen received a peace pipe today as she attended the funeral blessing of a native American Indian chieftain in a symbolic righting of a wrong. Mahomet Weyonomon, who died in 1736, was finally given the...

London police links with 'cult' Scientologists: Forging ties with the police Gifts worth thousands of pounds have been lavished on police officers by the controversial Church of Scientology. Invitations to charity dinners, music concerts and a film premiere were all accepted...

Continental European Universities - mainly those in France, Germany and Italy - are pitifully below standard and don't provide the skills and research needed to help the Continent compete with rampant Asia. Not enough is being spent on higher education in these countries. But there is a...

Troops fighting for the world PM ... meeting Our Boys in Helmand From MICHAEL LEA in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan NOVEMBER 21, 2006 BRAVE British troops battling on the Afghan frontline were told by Tony Blair yesterday that they were “fighting for the world”. The PM said the...

'Poisoned by radiation' Shocking ... a deteriorated Alexander Litvinenko, former KGB spy now living in Britain NOVEMBER 21, 2006 A FORMER Russian spy may have been poisoned with radioactive thallium at a London restaurant, a medical expert said. John Henry, a toxicologist...

Dangling from a 25,000 volt cable, is this the luckiest (or most stupid) man in Britain? 20th November 2006 Luckily for him, the drunkard - who drank a few too many ciders - decided to dangle from the power cable at one of the rare moments that it was switched off Bare-chested...

Group of praying imams ordered off American flight Last updated at 12:49pm on 21st November 2006 Six imams, who had been saying their evening prayers on a plane, were removed from a US Airways flight yesterday and questioned for hours before being released. The Muslim scholars were...

Modern day Robin Hoods prove internet hit Former Chelsea and Italy footballer Gianfranco Zola poses as Robin Hood A video of three mysterious Britons dressed as Robin Hood and his Merry Men giving away 4,000 dollars (£2,100) in New York has become an internet hit. The footage...

Jack the Ripper's face is revealed An e-fit of Jack the Ripper The face of Jack the Ripper, the 19th-century killer whose identity still remains a mystery, has been revealed for the first time. Using state-of-the-art profiling, investigators have created a vision of what the...

The first patron saint of England, within East Leeds Heritage Centre at Cross Gates Library Saints alive... let's remember our Edmund! By DAVID MARSH MANY a proud Englishman knows the story of St George, the patron saint of England, and his dragon-slaying feats. And every April 23 –...

A spooky photo that was taken in a British park..... Sheffield Park, Sussex spook or spoof? Christopher Petty and his brother decided to spend a day outdoors, enjoying the warm Sussex sunshine. Little did they know when they started out that they would be joined by someone... or...

Times Online November 20, 2006 Tony Blair at Camp Bastion today: he arrived for a morale-boosting visit for British troops (Stefan Rousseau/PA) Tony Blair pledged Britain's continuing support for war-torn Afghanistan until after the Taleban is defeated during a press conference in...