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Ancient pathway unveiled 22 August 2006 Archaelogical wood consultant Richard Darrah and senior project officer Rod Gardner inspect the find ARCHAELOGISTS working at Ipswich Waterfront believe they have found the remains of a pavement dating back more than a thousand years. The dig...

Roman art excites archaeologists TOM MATTHEWS 23 August 2006 Barbara Jones at work on the excavation They gave us straight roads, sewers and bloodthirsty gladiatorial combat, but it is the Roman eye for beauty which is currently exciting archaeologists in Norfolk. A spectacular...

Souvenir vendu dans les rues de Paristan (Souvenir sold in the streets of Paristan) Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…...

Why this man should give us all nightmares By ANN LESLIE 22nd August 2006 Iran's president Almadinejad: Threatened to wipe Israel off the map Why shouldn't Iran have nuclear weapons? We have them, so has America, France, Russia, Israel, China, Pakistan, India and possibly North Korea...

Face of Jesus seen in baby scan By PAUL SIMS 23rd August 2006 The Turners' spiritual scan shows the face of Jesus hovering above their baby in the womb. She was reassured to see not just the baby sucking his thumb - but what she believes is an image of Jesus watching over him. The...

From Genghis Khan to Napoleon, no famous face is safe from canine 'actress-model' Charlie. The pug dresses as our best-known historical characters, such as Napoleon Bonapug, pictured, in a new book, Fabulous Pugs by Lisa Knapp. ---------------------------- You'd be barking not to love this one...

British movie Atonement, starring Keira Knightley, will be released in 2007. Filming is taking place in several locations around Britain, including Grimsby, Shropshire and Redcar, Cleveland. The movie is set in several different times, including during the Dunkirk evacuation of 1941. The town...

New Zealand: the funeral of the Maori Queen took place near the city of Hamilton, shown on the map. The Maoris are the natives of New Zealand. Warriors take Maori Queen on final journey By Paul Chapman in Wellington, New Zealand (Filed: 22/08/2006) Tens of thousands of mourners...

Terror suspects in court By SIMON HUGHES Chief Investigative Reporter EIGHT suspects were charged with conspiracy to murder yesterday over the alleged suicide bomb plot to blow up airliners. They were also accused of trying to smuggle bottle bomb components on board the planes which...

Time for us to pull out Andrew Alexander In the main leader of the Daily Mail on 9th December 2000 Andrew Alexander argued why he believes it is inevitable that Britain will withdraw from the EU Britain will one day leave the EU. The timing may be hard to predict, but not the inevitability...

Drought gives a glimpse of ancient archaeology 21st August 2006 (TOP) Round borrows from the Bronze Age are seen in the Vale of Glamorgan. (BOTTOM) The outlines of a medieval ditch in Shropshire. Britain's long hot summer may have left the nation's gardens parched, but the absence of...

Just WHO, or WHAT, causes Britain's many crop circles? The beauty and mystery of Britain's mysterious crop circles By BILL MOULAND 21st August 2006 An eye-catching crop circle in Uffington, Oxfordshire. These photographs should probably carry a health warning. 'They give off energy...

Hawk attacks jogger and kills pet The bird was photographed as it perched in a tree in a back garden A hawk is terrorising residents in a Staffordshire town. In two separate attacks, the bird of prey flew from woods and plunged its talons into its victims as they were out jogging in...

The Scotsman Spectacular shower of meteors sparked fear of air crash MURDO MACLEAN COASTGUARDS were inundated with frantic phone calls at the weekend after a bright fireball was seen plunging from the sky over the Hebrides, prompting fears of a plane crash. Seven shore rescue teams were...

The cowardly French have pledged only a measly 200 troops to Lebanon. Because of that, the RAF has decided to help out with some PROPER power. But no British troops will be going to Lebanon because, unlike France, we have thousands getting their hands dirty in Iraq and Afghanistan...... 20...

It is the first weekend of the new Barclays Premiership season, the most exciting and entertaining football league in Europe. And there was not a boring 0-0 draw in sight. Rooney and winker Ronaldo seem to have put aside their differences. Rooney scored twice and Ronaldo once in Manchester...

A contest was launched in February in response to widespread Muslim outrage at the publication of Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in European newspapers. Iran cartoon show mocks Holocaust Tehran exhibition attacks West's 'double standards' over religious satire Robert Tait...

The fourth and final Test match between England and Pakistan has been abandoned after Pakistan were accused of ball tampering. England were given 5 penalty runs because of the cheating. After play resumed after tea, Pakistan refused to come back onto the field and stayed in their dressing room...

With doublespeaking France, honor gets lost in translation August 20, 2006 By Jules Crittenden Boston Herald City Editor France has its huge Muslim population, the largest in Western Europe, to satisfy. French is the traditional language of diplomacy. Diplomacy is the art of saying one...

Occultists slaughter sheep on Prince Charles's estate By NICK CONSTABLE 19th August 2006 Butchered: A mobile phone photo of the dead sheep. Below, PC David Pickles Sheep have been mutilated and slaughtered in what appears to be bizarre occult rituals on land owned by Prince...