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Continental Europeans are lazy and now they are forcing their laziness upon the hard-working British. The Times September 08, 2006 Business forced to adopt EU six-hour work limit By David Charter, Europe Correspondent EMPLOYEES will be banned from working for more than six hours without...

Evil Ian Huntley, who was jailed in 2003 for a mininum of 40 years for the murders of 10 year olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, left hospital yesterday. He tried to commit suicide in his cell. Huntley was found comatose in his prison cell at 1am on Tuesday. Yesterday, as he was led from...

Trescothick's Indiaphobia By JULIE MOULT SEPTEMBER 07, 2006 England's Marcus Trescothick has said that he has Indiaphobia, the fear of India. ENGLAND cricket ace Marcus Trescothick has a dread of INDIA, it was revealed yesterday. His Indiaphobia means he has withdrawn from next...

Amazing escape for bus passengers as double decker bursts into flames 7th September 2006 These images show the bus shortly after it burst into flames. Passengers fled for their lives when their bus burst into flames. The driver of the doubledecker number 43 ordered them off after he...

Meet George: the talking - and romancing - robot by JANE FRYER 6th September 2006 It's good to talk: The face of George, software that can hold a conversation A sunny afternoon in a computer-strewn office in Norwich and I am struggling to bond with a middle-aged bald man wearing a white...

The Times September 07, 2006 Jean Valentine, 82, a former bombe operator, explains the decoder at Bletchley Park yesterday (Rui Vieira/PA) Code battle relived as Engima-buster whirrs into action By Alan Hamilton IT HAS the bulk to challenge a Chippendale sideboard and a...

China Ranks Korea as Ninth Most Powerful nation World's most powerful nations (ranked according to GDP, military power, diplomacy, capital strength, technological power, natural resources, human resources, government coordination and control capability, information and communication) 1)...

32 Iraqis are booted out of UK By DAVID WOODING Whitehall Editor and JAMIE PYATT September 06, 2006 Monster of the skies: the huge RAF C-17 Hercules is the world's 2nd-largest transport aircraft, suitable for containing lots of asylum cheats. LABOUR finally got tough on asylum...

The German (who else?) Director, Diana & The 'Nazi' Monarch Written by Joanne Leyland Thursday, 31 August 2006 The timing couldn't have been worse. On the ninth anniversary of their mother's death, Princes William and Harry have been alerted to the fact a new stage show is to...

Japanese monarchy celebrates birth of male heir Justin McCurry in Tokyo Wednesday September 6, 2006 The Guardian A group of Japanese men celebrate the birth of the country’s future emperor. Photograph: David Coll/EPA Japanese royalists were in celebratory mood today after Princess Kiko...

WAR ON TERROR The 18th British soldier to be killed in the war against terrorism since Friday and the 38th to be killed in Afghanistan since 2001 - UK soldier killed by Afghan mine Thirty-eight UK soldiers have been killed in Afganistan since 2001 A British soldier has been killed...

Phone telepathy: You knew it was true September 5, 2006 NORWICH, England (Reuters) -- Many people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call from someone shortly after thinking about them -- now a scientist says he has proof of what he calls telephone telepathy. Rupert...

Why did Zidane headbutt Materazzi? The reason is because Zidane offered to give Materazzi his shirt after the game, which is normal. But Materazzi told him: "I prefer to have your sister." France and Italy play each other tonight in a Euro 2008 qualifying game...

England play Macedonia tonight in Skopje in their second Euro 2008 qualifier. When England played there in 2003 for the Euro 2004 qualifiers their black players - such as Ashley Cole - were subjected to monkey chants by the Macedonian fans. UEFA has said that if England are subjected to...

Arctic Monkeys win the Mercury Prize The Times September 06, 2006 The Artic Monkeys, led by their lead singer Alex Turner, right, receive the Mercury Prize (BEN GURR) Mercury falls for Arctic Monkeys' tales of street life By Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent FOR once the...

Omagh suspect set to go on trial Devastation: The 1998 Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, perpetrated by the Real IRA, killed 29 people and was the worst atrocity in the UK in 30 years The man accused of Northern Ireland's worst single terrorist atrocity is set to go on trial in Belfast...

Blair will resign on 31 May - reports Speculation is growing over Tony Blair's exit strategy Tony Blair will resign as Labour leader on 31 May next year, before stepping down as Prime Minister on 26 July, The Sun has reported. The newspaper has previously made accurate predictions about the...

Dangermouse back on 25th birthday Dangermouse lived inside a postbox on Baker Street in London with his sidekick Penfold. Cartoon secret agent Dangermouse is returning to television after the BBC bought episodes of the series to broadcast in its daytime schedules. This month marks the...

Seeking the secrets of Stonehenge By Helen Thomas Above, Third year archaeology student Beatrice Greenfield with some of the finds (19013/2) Archaeologists have been digging ancient sites around Stonehenge to find clues about when they were first built. The dig, being conducted by...

Britain cracked WW2 secret "dress code" By Peter Griffiths Sun Sep 3 An undated handout image released on September 3, 2006 by The National Archives shows a page from a book issued to British secret service officials. German spies hid secret messages in drawings of models wearing the...