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A new study finds that Italy has 6.9 deaths per 100,000 workers in the workplace. This compares with 3.0 per 100,000 workers in France and just 0.8 per 100,000 workers in Britain 'White deaths': Italy's secret shame By Stephanie Holmes BBC News Although Graziella Marota, from the...

In the dark days of the 1940s when Britain was under threat of being invaded for the first time since 1066, thousands of women of the Women's Land Army (WLA) - commonly known as the Land Girls - toiled on farms and in fields to replace the men who had gone off to war. In World War I the WLA...

Beautiful Kate Middleton, who may one day become Queen, has come under fire after going deer hunting on the Queen's Balmoral estate with her boyfriend Prince William. Kate Middleton - who may one day become Queen Catherine - has infuriated animal rights activists.... Deer hunter: Middleton...

Thousands of France and England fans crowded onto the the Champs Elysees last night to watch France VS England in the Rugby World Cup Semi Final on giant screens. The French, whose national suicide rate is 2.5 times that of England's, now have another excuse to commit suicide after England won...

World Champions England have beaten France in the Rugby World Cup Semi-Final and are now in the World Cup Final for the second successive time. England are now in the Final for a record-equalling third time (Australia the only other team to appear in three Finals). It's also the second time in...

Here are my best bands of all time. What does everyone else think are the best 5 bands of all time? 1) The Beatles The Beatles are, without doubt, the best band of all time. They are the best-selling musical act of all time in the United States and in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked The...

People, mainly Scots, complained to the BBC after the former editor of The Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie, made anti-Scottish comments saying that the Scots are now so Socialist they have to live on handouts given to them by the hardworking and productive people of England, mainly the South East of...

The leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, has got support from the Republican Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. With Prime Minister Gordon Brown seeming to distance himself from the Americans more than Blair did, it seems the Tory leader is now winning affection with...