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Amazing new computer-generated images show what the Earth look slike stripped bare - without plants, water, topoil and man-made structures. OneGeology is the flagship for UN International Year of Planet Earth 2008.. What the world looks like naked: The amazing image of Earth's geology laid...

Britain's MI5 is using a fleet of sophisticated surveillance aircraft to search for Britons who fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan. The aircraft, with eavesdropping equipment, are flying over British cities.... Spy-in-sky patrols over British cities in hunt for Taliban fighters By Jason...

News just coming in is that tragic British honeymooner Ben Mullany has died. Ben Mullany and his new wife Catherine, both 31, were on the last day of their honeymoon on the Carribean island of Antigua when they were both shot in their room. His wife died instantly, but Ben, a former British...

Astonishing secret memo in which Blair accuses Brown of "hubris and vacuity" In a secret memo, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has accused current PM Gordon Brown of playing in Tory leader David Cameron's hands by his "lamentable" and vacuous" performance as PM. Despite Brown being...

CRICKET Michael Vaughan today stood down as the captain of the England Test team. Yesterday England were beaten in a Series against South Africa for the first time in England since 1965. Vaughan became captain of England in 2003, taking over from Nasser Hussain. Also, Paul Collingwood has...

"Intolerant" villagers stop "tolerance" festival A village festival of tolerance has been scrapped because of opposition from "intolerant" locals. By Stephen Adams 30 Jul 2008 The Telegraph Queen Mary, queen of England and Ireland (the daughter of Henry VIII), reigned from 1553...

The British are supposed to be a nation of animal lovers. But this reputation has been shattered today after the Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), the world's oldest animal welfare chariry, said the number of people jailed for animal cruelty has increased by 42%...

The King of Tonga (a Pacific nation comprising of 169 tiny islands which gained independence from Britain in 1970), George Tupou V, was crowned today and a massive feast was prepared in celebration. Tonga, the world's most obese nation, celebrated the coronation with a giant meal which...

It's not just plucky little Republic of Ireland which can give the EU a kick in the knackers, as it did recently when it voted against the EU Constitution. Britain, the EU's second-biggest member state, and the most anti-EU of the lot, will probably give the Eurocrats a lot more to worry about...

Joe Lean and The Jing Jang Jong are an indie band from London. Joe Lean himself hails from the Brixton area, famous for the riots of 1981. Here is the review of their debut album... Album Review: Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong - Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong By Gavin Martin 25/07/2008...

Recent surveys show that Barack Obama is much less popular in Britain than he is in France and Germany. In France, Obama leads McCain in the opinion polls by a whopping 51 points. In Germany, which went over the top when Obama visited a few days ago, Obama leads McCain by 49 points. But in...

A crisp with big "ears" that looks like former England footballer Gary Lineker has been discovered. This is fitting as the crisp was found in a packet of Walkers crisps, a company which the 47-year-old Match of the Day presenter is an ambassador of. Walkers crisps are made in the former...

Prince William is preparing to becoming an "apprentice" on becoming king. His father, Prince Charles, and grandmother, the Queen, have drawn up a two-year training programme on the art of kingship, covering things such as the workings of government and constitutional affairs etc. The Prince...

Tory leader David Cameron wants to make Northern Ireland more integrated into the UK, and a more "normal" part of the UK, by merging his party with Northern Irish political party the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), a party which supports Northern Ireland remaining as part of the UK. The current...

Due to the high rate of disease, insanitation, high violent crime and, from the 18th Century until the 1850s, 250 capital offences, Britain, and London especially, was often a dangerous place to live, with a much lower life expectancy than it is today. Now, a new exhibition displays skeletons...

Britain, with the world's fourth-largest nuclear weapons armament, is to spend £3 billion on a new generation of nuclear warheads. Despite the fact that with these weapons Britain is capable of destroying the world if it gets very, very angry and therefore no country will probably be stupid...

Napoleon and Hitler have a few things in common. Both conquered large swathes of Europe. Both tried, and failed, to invade Britain. And, like Hitler, Napoleon (along with his American allies) was defeated by the British during the Napoleonic Wars. But, according to an historian, Napoleon had...

Buckingham Palace has been open to the public since 1993. Now the palace's ballroom has become the latest room to be opened up to the people. The ballroom is where ther great state banquets are held - there have been 77 held there during the Queen's reign and 97 in total (of the other 20...

The BBC is currently making a new TV series about Britain's most famous mythological figures - King Arthur, Merlin the Magician, Uther Pendragon, Guinevere, Morgana, Lancelot, Nimueh, the Knights of the Round Table, etc. The series, alled "Merlin", which will use stunning special effects, will...

How an EU army could wreck NATO - and would probably be worthless, anyway. Folly that could wreck Nato 06th June 2008 Daily Mail Edward Heathcoat Amory When our government refused to hold the promised referendum on the European Constitution, it insisted that what it called a tidying-up...