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After ten years of glitzy, ever-smiling Tony Blair, America was today introduced to new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a typical dour Scotsman.... Gordon Brown: We are at one in fighting terror By Matthew Moore, Sally Peck, Graeme Wilson and Toby Harnden 30/07/2007 Daily Mail...

Legend has it that a four-legged fiend with glowing eyes and a blood-curling howl stalks eerie, desolate Dartmoor, in Devon, in the far south west of Britain. Legend also has it that a pack of phantom black Hounds of Hell prowl these moors, which were the inspiration of Arthur Conan Doyle's...

If the invasion of Iraq never happened this momentous victory for Iraq might never have happened. Today Iraq were crowned Asian Champions after winning football's Asian Cup for the first time. Their previous best in the tournament ws 4th place in 1976. Their were joyous scenes throughout Baghdad...

From a very early age, many young Nepalese boys dream of joining the British Army as Gurkhas. They train for years in Nepal from childhood honing their deadly skills, before more intensive training when they join the British Army, which make them one of the most fearsome types of soldier in the...

The Battle of Passchendaele was fought in 1917 between the British Empire and its ally France against Germany. Now, in the 90th anniversary year of the battle, the last-surviving Tommy of that battle, Harry Patch, re-lives its horrors. Read this great man's story... Last survivor re-lives...

A Canadian businesswoman is set to become the latest member of the Royal Family as she marries Peter Phillips - the son of the Princess Royal, the brother of Zara Phillips, the cousin of Willia, and Harry and the nephew of Charles and Camilla.... The Queen's grandson to marry Canadian...

It's become common recently for British bands that split up years ago to re-form. The Police have recently re-formed, as have the Spice Girls and Take That. Now Bananarama - Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward (Siobhan Fahey has left) - are coming back.... Return of the top Bananas 28th July 2007...

The Lefty BBC, who long for the day for Britain to become a Puritan, Cromwellian Republic, is facing the possibility that it's documentary on the Queen, in which it appeared showed the Queen storming out of a photo shoot in anger (many say the anti-Monarchy BBC did it deliberately) when she was...

In the First Test between England and India, England were by far the dominant team. Bad light, though, on the fifth and Final day meant that the match ended as a draw, meaning that the score in the Series remains 0-0. Now, on the second day of the Second Test, the roles have reversed. India...

This weekend, the new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown meets US President George Bush for the first time.... Brown's first meeting with Bush may mean the end of the 'special' affair By CORRELLI BARNETT 27th July 2007 Daily Mail This weekend Gordon Brown meets George Bush for the...

100 years ago, British man Robert Baden-Powell, a former soldier and a writer, created the Scout Movement. The first Scout encampment took place on Brownsea Island, just of the coast of Poole, Dorset in England, in 1907. The Scouting Movement then spread throughout the British Empire - to Canada...

The real life Doctor Who who believes he can build a time machine by MICHAEL HANLON (Science Editor) 28th July 2007 Daily Mail Ronald Mallett: Believes he can build a time machine for £120,000 Suppose it were possible to go back in time and meet the dead. To say all the things you...

Football (or "sacker" as North Americans call it), the world's greatest and most popular team sport, is helping to unite Iraqis. Saddam's downfall seems to be working wonders for the Iraqi national team. For the first time ever, the Iraq football team has reached the Final of the Asian Cup...

New British rockers Palladium have only been together a mere 10 months and don't release their first album until 2008. But they have a new single to listen to beforehand... Star fans ... lads played with Amy Winehouse in former jobs Stage set for Palladium By JACQUI SWIFT July...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW The Sun's Something For The Weekend interviews Newton Faulkner, a British guitar genius, whose album "Hand Huilt By Robots" is released on 30th July. The big, dreadlocked 22 year-old released the single Dream Catch Me on 23rd July... Our answer to Jack Johnson The Sun...

World's first prosthetic limb found on 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy By JAMES TOZER 27th July 2007 Daily Mail The false toe worn by a 3,000-year-old mummy has always been regarded as a simple ornament, added after death as part of burial rites. But British scientists who have studied...

These pictures may look as though the Great Flood of 2007, the worst flood to hit Britain in living memory, has finally hit the metropolis of London but they are actually scenes for a new British disaster movie which, coincidentally, is about a great flood, a movie in which Britain is trying to...

The Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn attacks the Left-Wing Guardian newspaper over its scaremongering about Global Warming. He also targets two of its correspondents, George Monbiot and socialist Polly Toynbee. In the article he writes as though it was being reported in a 17th Century version...

Dawn attack ... British soldier shoots at Taliban fighters EXCLUSIVE Sun on the front line with troops By TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence Editor on the front line in the Upper Gereshk Valley, Afghanistan July 26, 2007 BRITISH troops in Afghanistan are making a daring push into an enemy...

In the 18th century, a British woman was sentenced to transportation to the British penal colony of Australia. Her crime? Stealing 12lbs of Gloucester cheese. Little did she know that she was one of the founders of a nation. However, as some anti-Pom (anti-British) Australians would have you...