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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met the Ukrainian President in London today. They look so alike you would be forgiven for thinking they are brothers. And in a freaky coincidence, they even wore the same suits and ties as each other!! Spot the difference: Gordon Brown meets his match in...

Teams from great cities - and not so great cities - across Europe battled it out as usual in this season's UEFA Cup. This year's Final was between Scottish team Glasgow Rangers (who have won 51 league titles, a world record, and have won more major trophies than any other football club in the...

Fans of Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers rampaged through the English city of Manchester last night after their team lost 2-0 to St Petersburg in the UEFA Cup Final. At round 150,000 Scottish football fans - if not many more - turned up in the city to watch the game that was being played at the...

India is a cricketing superpower, a country of 1 billion people where cricket is the national sport. A few weeks ago, the new Indian Premier League got under way, with 8 teams: Bangalore Royal Challengers, Chennai Super Kings, Delhi DareDevils, Deccan Chargers, Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI...

Cricket has been popular in Afghanistan since Afghan refugees in neighbouring Pakistan - a country in which cricket is the national sport - watched the game then, when they returned to Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban regime, brought back the game with them. In neighbouring...

Zara Phillips, the daughter of the Princess Royal and the granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, has been picked to be in Great Britain's equestrian team for this year's Beijing Olympics. Phillips, who is dating England rugby player Mike Tindall, won the 2006 World Championship and was named...

The German WWI fighter ace, Baron von Richthofen (aka The Red Baron), was a great enemy to the British Empire. During the war, he shot down 80 British Empire and allied planes. Legend has it that the German was a chivalrous fighter pilot, who let his enemies have a sporting chance. Instead...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a Scotsman, has said that he will ensure that Scotland does not gain independence. The PM seems to have the people on his side. The most recent polls show that 69% of people in the UK are against Scotland seceding from the Union and only 24% want England...

Back in the 1800s and early 1900s, Britain led the world in engineering and manufacturing. The country gained the nickname "The Workshop of the World." Now a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London celebrates Britain's many engineering feats in the exhibition "Dan Dare & The Birth Of...

The Queen's husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, agreed to co-operate in a new fly-on-the-wall documentary, to be shown on Channel 3 (ITV1) tomorrow night because he was worried about his gaffe-prone and grumpy image. The two-part special called The Duke, which took 18 months to...

Ryan Giggs scored Manchester United's winning goal to hand them a record 10th Premiership title and a 17th English title in total (The former First Division was English football's top flight division until the Premiership was established in 1992). United are now just one title short of...

Last night, London, and two royal princes, showed their gratitude to Britain's Armed Forces in a spectacular one hour long salute as the sun went down. Thousands gathered at St Paul's Cathedral - which also celebrates its 300th birthday on 20th December - to watch members of the RAF, Royal...

A photograph taken in March 1876 is probably the earliest ever photo of the England football team - and probably the earliest of ANY national football team. The England football team is the oldest nation football team in the world, formed 6 months before the next oldest, Scotland. The first...

A giant statue of a horse - 33 times the size of a real horse - may become the South of England's answer to the North of England's Angel of the North. The giant white horse is inspired by Horsa, one of the first Anglo-Saxons (the ancestors of the modern day English) to arrive in England. he...

In 1922, what is now the Republic of Ireland broke away from Britain and became an independent state. But will Scotland do the same over the next 10 years or so? According to the Daily Mail, it will be highly unlikely that Scotland becomes independent - it probably won't be able to cope as...

Until recently, it was thought that the earliest photo ever taken was taken in 1826 by Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce which shows the roofs of a group of buildings in the French countryside and a tree in the distance. But new evidence shows that the first photo was taken by the British way back in...

When you are the most famous woman in the world, it's hard to be anonymous when you are outside in public. But Queen Elizabeth II managed to do that this weekend when she took a one and a half mile trip on a miniature steam train, crowded with members of the public, around the grounds of a...

Tributes have been paid to Trooper Ratu Babakobau of the Blues and Royals section of the Household Cavalry after he was killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb. He is the British Army's 95th fatality in Afghanistan. Babakobau was a member of the same 60-strong squadron of the Blues and Royals...

An invasion of thousands of British students at a small Spanish resort for a sports tournament has left the local people angry after they wrecked the place after spending many days drinking (the British can certainly beat any nation in a drinking contest if ever there was one).... 'We never...

I bet this makes you proud to be American... Greetings from Guantanamo Bay ... and the sickest souvenir shop in the world By ANGELA LEVIN 4th May 2008 Daily Mail Mockery: A child's T-shirt proclaiming the camp a tourist spot The sands are white, the sea laps gently and crowds of...