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These are the amazing scenes after the Royal Navy frigate HMS Portland managed to capture ten suspected Somali pirates. The warship chased the pirates across the Indian Ocean until its finally captured them in the Guld of Aden. The pirates had no choice but to surrender having come...

Cricket is a gentle, summer sport, not known for its high rate of fatalities. So when a death does happen, it is fairly unusual. But that's no consolation for this poor pigeon. Yorkshire and Lancashire are two counties that hate each other with a passion, their rivalry is intense and there...

The pigeon is not exactly the most loved animal, being seen as a pest and crowding in huge numbers in places such as London's Trafalgar Square. But photographer Simon de Glanville loves them. Simon has used scraps of food to take incredible pictures of London's pigeons. But, more recently...

Usually it's cats going after birds. But on this occasion, the tables were turned. Holly, a hapless feline who got stuck 70ft up a tree, was helpless as a group of crows started pecking at her. Poor Holly could do nothing but cling on for dear life - without food and water in temperatures...

Cricket fans around the world are preparing for cricket's Twenty20 World Cup. The first World Twenty20 was held in South Africa in 2007. India beat Pakistan in the Final. England host this year's tournament. If you like baseball (which is inferior to cricket in so many ways) and think...

England is hosting this year's cricket Twenty20 World Cup. Twenty20 is the shortest form of the game, where matches last for just one innings and each teams bowls 20 overs. It differs from One Day matches in that One Day matches are the same but with both teams bowling 50 overs, and it is...

It's crop circle season in Britain again. And the usual bizarre shapes have appeared in farmers' fields, mostly in Wiltshire. But there's a world first. A crop circle in the shape of a JELLYFISH has appeared in a field in Kingstone Coombes, Oxfordshire. It is a whopping 600 feet long, from...

Hundreds of onlookers in two British cities and a town have been looking to the sky in amazement over the last three weeks at up to 50 mysterious orange balls of light. The balls were spotted over Lincoln, Liverpool and Huntingdon. The lights were also spotted in neighbouring Holland. But...

Great Britain and Ireland got off to a winning start on their tour of South Africa - but only just. It wasn't a convincing display by the Lions, and they almost suffered their first defeat in an opening tour match since 1971 when they lost 15-11 to Queensland Reds. The British and Irish...

Spain is still at it regarding Gibraltar. Last week, the Royal Navy vessel HMS Sabre, a Scimitar-class fast patrol boat, which has been a part of the Gibraltar squadron since 2003, chased away a Spanish warship out of Gibraltarean - and British - waters (it doesn't bode well for Spain if all...

Last week, Sir Ranulph Fiennes became the oldest Briton to climb Mount Everest. This week, another archetypal British hero is being honoured. Sir Richard Branson today unveiled an English Heritage blue plaque to honour Douglas Bader, a hero of the Battle of Britain. In 1931, Douglas Bader...

Big Ben celebrates its 150th birthday today. Contrary to popular belief, Big Ben is not the clock tower but merely the great bell of the clock (but that's being pedantic). The clock tower is St Stephen's Tower. But, if you consider Big Ben to also be the clock (as many people do) then today...

US celebrities flocked to see Prince Harry play a charity polo match in New York yesterday. The prince hoped to raise £100,000 for the American Friends of Sentebale, the US arm of his charity that supports Aids orphans in Lesotho. Prince Harry's team won 6-5. It is Prince Harry's first...

An angry swan didn't fancy sharing its space on the Thames with a young deer which wanted to cool down in the sweltering temperatures. So, with an angry peck, the swan showed the deer who's boss and threw it out. These photos weren't taken in the countryside, but in Richmond Park in London...

Chelsea yesterday beat Everton to win the FA Cup for the fifth time. Over 500 million people across the globe watched this match on TV - incredibly, that's more than watched the recent European Cup Final. Everton made a blistering start in the blistering heat at Wembley - it was 107 degrees...

Welcome to a land whose leader's birth was supposedly greeted by a double rainbow along with birds that sang in human voices. A land where the people all wear boiler suits. A land where the "Great Leader" correctly managed to guess the number of fruit on the Great Leader's Pomegranate Tree...

Mothers are usually prepared to put their bodies on the line to save their young, and mother birds are no different. A thrush has saved her chicks from being washed away after she used her body as a dam in an overflowing drainpipe. The scene has been captured on camera by an amateur...

They say that when it comes to Marmite, you either love it or you hate it. Jesus must be one of those who loves it, because a woman in Rhondda, Rhondda Cynon Taf, has found him in one of her jars! The Marmite messiah: How a mother found Jesus in a jar By Daily Mail Reporter 28th May 2009...

Buckingham Palace - and people in both Britain and Canada - expressed their outrage earlier this week after France snubbed the Head of State of both those two nations - the Queen - over next week's D-Day commemorations. Aides said senior royals had repeatedly made clear their eagerness to...

On Monday, little Burnley were back in England's top flight for the first time since 1976 (before the creation of the Premiership in 1992, England's highest division was the First Division, which is now known as the Championship and is now the second tier. There are 92 teams in the English...