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A BBC comedy sketch called 'The Real Housewives of ISIS' has sparked a furious backlash after being branded 'tasteless' and 'insensitive' by viewers. The sketch show, a satire of an American series about wealthy housewives in New York and Beverly Hills, depicts Muslim women taking...

Larry the cat has been spotted on Downing Street in a new collar. Having been snapped for the first time since Christmas, it appears the new decoration could be a Christmas present. Many online have joked that it could mean the political puss supports Brexit, or that it could have been a gift...

Queen Victoria’s reign witnessed a massive expansion of the British Empire. Saul David explains how such huge growth was accompanied by a constant series of wars of conquest... Victoria the warrior queen...

Britain's booming food and drink industry is defying Brexit doom-mongers and challenging national stereotypes around the world by selling cheese to France, chocolate to Switzerland and even wine to Italy, official figures reveal. Britain's spirits are drank in nearly every corner of the...

Britain's population is set to overtake that of France within 13 years because of the impact of high immigration, EU estimates have said. Numbers of people living here will top French levels in 2030 and will keep rising to make Britain the most populous country in Europe by 2050, they...

A museum's famous 112-year-old dinosaur is set to leave London for a national tour. Dippy the diplodocus, a 70ft long (21.3m) plaster-cast sauropod replica made up of 292 bones, is set to leave the Natural History Museum in Kensington later this year. A six-person team will start a...

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of North Yorkshire. The tremor was detected about 100 miles (150km) east of Scarborough in the North Sea at 18:52 GMT on Tuesday. A British Geological Survey (BGS) spokesman said people may have experienced a "minor tremor", but the quake...