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Do Americans suffer from some sort of inferiority complex? South Park depicts the Queen's suicide after plot to conquer US fails 29th March 2007 South Park, the cartoon series that has pushed the bounds of taste for a decade, has perhaps produced its most spectacularly offensive episode...

The end ... Harry Potter Potter's final cover revealed By TOM HARVEY March 28, 2007 THE covers of the final Harry Potter book have been revealed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published on July 21. It is the seventh and final instalment in JK Rowling’s saga - and...

25th anniversary of the Falklands War, Britain V Argentina Army of lost souls ignored on their return By Sophie Arie 28/03/2007 How Argentina's army, defeated by the British, were betrayed by Argentina's ruling military junta after the war The Argentine veteran never talked about...

Darwin delayed publishing Origin of Species for 20 years 'because he was busy' 28th March 2007 Darwin: Put Origin of Species on the backburner 'because he was busy'. Darwin also discovered that another Englishman, by coincidence, also came up with the idea of evolution at around the same...

World's tallest man marries woman two feet shorter 28th March 2007 The world's tallest man, whose search for a bride covered the world, has married a woman from his home town nearly half his age and more than two feet shorter. Bao Xishun, 56, a 7-ft, 9-inch herdsman listed by Guinness...

Iran TV shows female navy captive Royal Navy sailor Faye Turney shown in a video eating a meal with her captured colleagues on British TV tonight. The Iranians say they will release her. Iranian state television has broadcast an interview with captured British female sailor Faye...

Samba stunna ... Ana is all smiles Prince and the Brazilian babe By JAMIE PYATT March 27, 2007 STUNNING student Ana Ferreira told last night of the moment she was groped by Prince William. The 18-year-old recalled: “I was a little bit drunk myself but felt something brush my...

Lefty Royal: "Tony Blair isn't socialist enough." Ségolène Royal will find it difficult to work with Britain's Conservative Party as president of France, her significant other told the Daily Telegraph. She also rejects Margaret Thatcher as "ruthless" and says that Tony Blair hasn't been...

Kamikaze goose destroys Skoda Gander-monium ... Tony Deakin by his window which was smashed by a Canada goose (inset) Goose's blood By ALASTAIR TAYLOR March 27, 2007 LUCKY Martyn Ranyard had an amazing escape when a GOOSE smashed through a car windscreen and smacked him in the...

Protester halts slavery service to demand apology from the Queen (who was born 120 years after Britain led the world in banning it) 27th March 2007 Toyin Agbetu brought proceedings to a halt when he ran in front of the altar at Westminster Abbey shouting A protester sparked a...

Now French are pooh la la FINALLY it’s official. The French DO smell. After generations of jibes about hygiene over the Channel, a study yesterday revealed nine out of ten French people do NOT wash regularly. That means that out of a population of 60.5million, more than 54million risk being...

Many Bosnians don't want the British soldiers to leave their country.... Unease in Bosnia as UK troops head home By Thomas Harding in Banja Luka 26/03/2007 British soldiers in Bosnia in 1995 Bosnia Bosnia's deserted battlefields are the world's most densely mined and...

Britain must leave Iran in no doubt of its anger 26/03/2007 HMS Cornwall The last time Iranian forces kidnapped British naval personnel from Iraqi territorial waters, in 2004, the hostages were released after three days. So it must remain our earnest hope that the current outrage in...

Bikini-wear to make Biggles blush as RAF launch new fashion label 26th March 2007 The Royal Air Force has unveiled its "Ralph Lauren-style" fashion range for men and women. It said the 50-strong collection would help raise the RAF's profile. A bikini decorated with a pink and blue...

Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures Maxïmo Park formed in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear in April 2003, their name adapted from Maximo Gomez Park, a Havana meeting place for Cuban revolutionaries. Initially, the four founding members were an avant-garde band without a singer who didn't play shows...

Enter Shikari are a British post-hardcore band with an electronic twist, formed in St. Albans, Hertfordshire in 2003. They released their new album "Take To The Skies" this month...... Roughton "Rou" Reynolds – Vocals / Electronics Chris Batten – Bass / Vocals Liam "Rory" Clewlow –...

25th anniversary of the Falklands War Carol Thatcher: My Mother's War By CAROL THATCHER 24th March 2007 Twenty-five years ago, Carol Thatcher watched with pride as her mother sent British troops to liberate the Falkands. Here she reveals how she told women who lost sons on the...

EU unloved and mistrusted, even by French The Telegraph By Niall Ferguson 25/03/2007 Last week I went to Paris for lunch (it is, after all, almost as near to London as Manchester and in every way nicer). I took the Eurostar. I paid with my Société Générale credit card. I bought my Metro...

Today is the 200th anniversary of the time Britain became the first country in the world to ban slavery. In this article the Bishop of Rochester tells us why we shouldn't apologise for slavery...... Bishop: 'Why I am NOT saying sorry for slavery' By MICHAEL NAZIR-ALI, Bishop of Rochester...

Prince Harry's drunken 3am brawl By KATIE NICHOLL and IAN GALLAGHER 24th March 2007 It is hardly behaviour becoming of a Prince. Emerging from his favourite nightclub after downing several "Crack Baby' vodka shots, Prince Harry stumbles spectacularly into the gutter. Only seconds...