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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has attacked US Democrat Presidential hopeful Barack Obama for saying US troops should withdraw from Iraq next year. Australia is America's biggest ally after Britain. After America (population 300 million) and Britain (population 61 million), Australia...

Is the World Cup coming home? Gordon Brown, who will become British Prime Minister this year, with the ball used in the 1966 World Cup Final, which England won 4-2 against West Germany. He will ensure England has the British Government's full backing in the bid. If the bid is successful...

"Cul-de-sac" is a French term meaning "arse/ass of a bag", although the cul-de-sac is a British invention. A cul-de-sac is a dead-end street - usually with houses - with only one inlet/outlet. Now Prince Charles wants to get rid of them....... February 11, 2007 Charles: let’s kill...

Martian moon 'could be key test' By Jonathan Amos Science reporter, BBC News Phobos: The moon's orbit is shrinking and it will eventually be destroyed Mars' moon Phobos could be the target for a technology trial that would seek to return rock samples to Earth. A UK team is...

Gay tourists turned off British holidays by camp campaign By Chris Hastings, Arts and Media Editor, Sunday Telegraph 11/02/2007 It has "outed" a gay English king, highlighted male nudes in London's galleries, and even hired a model to dance through San Francisco clad only in leather...

Revealed: Britain's first victim in the war on terror By Jason Lewis 10th February 2007 MI5 agent Steven Lanham posing in front of military plane. He died in mysterious circumstances in 1999 when not many people had heard of Al Qaeda. Police files record Steven Lanham's death as...

Is it a train...Is it a plane...or is it C.B. Fry? This amazing Englishman played rugby for the Barbarians, football for England, captained the English cricket team, equalled the world long jump record - and was offered the throne of Albania! The Superman, more conventionally...

In 1807, Britain became the first country in the world to ban slavery, thanks to the efforts of Member of Parliament William Wilberforce. This year, Britain will hold a series of events to mark the 200th anniversary. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

February 10, 2007 British soldier shot in the chest during routine patrol in Basra Richard Beeston in Basra The new Rifles Regiment was created just earlier this month and is the largest British Army regiment. A soldier in Iraq has just become the regiment's first casualty...

Ahh ... Bisto gravy granules for every SAS occasion Picture: REX SAS disguise with use of Bisto By VIRGINIA WHEELER February 10, 2007 SAS soldiers who ran out of camouflage cream have been on secret missions — smeared in GRAVY. Our elite troops found the meat sauce worked as...

The man afraid of Grannies WARNING: this page contains a picture of a little old lady. Read with extreme caution Granny phobia ... OCD sufferer Stephen Drake By SAMANTHA WOSTEAR FEBRUARY 10, 2007 BURLY Stephen Drake peers nervously from behind his curtains to check that the coast...

Cricket: England go 1 up in the best-of-three game Commonwealth Bank Series final against Australia. Collingwood breathes new life into England By Simon Briggs in Melbourne 09/02/2007 "Alleluia! England finally won a proper cricket match against Australia - and no cribbing that it...

A man has a full English breakfast tattooed on his head. Heads on toast ... breakfast is underway Scrambled head By TOM HARVEY February 09, 2007 A TEENAGER has had a full English breakfast tattooed on his head. Dayne Gilbey, 19, was inked with bacon, eggs, sausages, beans and...

You call that a microscope! By MICHAEL HANLON 9th February 2007 Yes, this doughnut-shaped building in Oxfordshire IS a microscope, the biggest, most expensive and most powerful in the world, and will allow Britain to lead the world in the science of the very small. Sub-atomic particles...

London team Queen's Park Rangers, of the Championship (the second tier in English football after the Premiership) played a friendly game against China's 2008 Olympic team. Little did QPR know that it would end in a kung fu brawl between the teams, with even spectators joining in for good...

BUSH'S THE RINGLEADER IN WILD WEST HORROR Brian Reade 08/02/2007 "WE'RE IN JAIL, DUDE... AAAAAAAAGH... GODAMMIT... F***... GOD, F***ING S**T... THIS SUCKS." WORDS used by US Air Force pilots after they had attacked L/Cpl Matty Hull's marked convoy, either through poor training, woeful...

Probe into Saudi-backed school that calls Jews "repugnant" and Christians "pigs" Probe into Islamic school ordered The King Fahad Academy is funded by the Saudi royal family Schools Minister Jim Knight has ordered an inquiry into an Islamic school accused of promoting religious...

Bagehot A rough patch for the special relationship Feb 1st 2007 From The Economist print edition How should Britain deal with a president who appears to have lost all authority at home? Steve OBrien THERE'S nothing new about a little turbulence in the so-called special...

THE LORDS A-LEAVING PEERS FACE AXE AFTER CASH FOR HONOURS AFFAIR By Bob Roberts, Deputy Political Editor 08/02/2007 In a massive shake-up, the House of Lords will change its name to the Senate, the number of seats will be reduced and those given a peerage by the Queen will no longer...

English throne is mine, mine, mine - hopefuls claim By Paul Majendie The Scotsman Buckingham Palace on a snowy day, January 24th. Hundreds of hopefuls have stepped forward to claim the throne of England after a worldwide quest by genealogists to find a rightful heir. REUTERS/Toby Melville...