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New earthquake hits Japan as death toll rises Seven dead and 600 injured in quakes 16th July 2007 Daily Mail A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the Japanese coast today, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, hours after another quake of similar strength killed at least seven people in...

Meet the Brit, Lewis Pugh, who has the astonishing ability to increase his body temperature allowing him to swim in icy cold water. He has just become the first person to swim to the North Pole. He now has several swimming "firsts" to his name...... Briton astounds the world by becoming the...

British-Russians relations fall furthern into the mire as the British expel four Russian diplomats in response to the refusal by the Russians to extradite the chief suspect of the murder of British citizen Alexander Litvinenko last year Many are now asking: Is this the start of a new Cold War...

Robot Air Attack Squadron Bound for Iraq Sunday July 15, 2007 7:01 PM By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent The MQ-9 Reaper (originally the RQ-9 Predator B) is outfitted with infrared, laser and radar targeting, and with a ton and a half of guided bombs and missiles. They...

It looks like the British are being engaged in more dangerous fighting than the Americans in Iraq. The British death rate is higher than that for the US Army. British death rate in Iraq higher than US By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph 15/07/2007 Daily Mail Deaths...

Only the eccentric (and class-obsessed) British can invent Chap Olympics take place. In these games, a groups of chaps (gentlemen) take part in crazy games such as Hop, Skip and Gin & Tonic (G&T), which is like the normal Olympics Hop, Skip and Jump but the athlete carries a G&T and isn't...

Beckham brand set to expand with new chain of nightclubs By KATIE NICHOLL 14th July 2007 Daily Mail Settled in Los Angeles for only a matter of days, David and Victoria Beckham are already hatching a business venture to conquer America. They are planning to establish a chain of elite...

SAS members stage revolt as 'PC Plod' joins their secret club By CHRISTOPHER LEAKE 14th July 2007 Daily Mail SAS soldiers A bitter row has erupted at Britain's most secretive private club – over an influx of members from the police force. Entrance to the Special Forces Club has...

British indie band The Enemy, from the city of Coventry, released their debut album - "We'll Live and Die in These Towns" - on 9th July. Tom Clarke (lead vocals, guitar) Liam Watts (drums) Andy Hopkins (bass guitar, backing vocals) The Enemy are an English rock band from Coventry...

Alistair Campbell was Tony Blair's Director of Communications and Strategy between 1997 and 2003. Throughout his time in Downing Street, Campbell kept a diary which reportedly totalled some two million words giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the Blairs. The diary has just been published and...

Special relationship will survive - as before By John O'Sullivan 14/07/2007 Daily Mail 'It's déjà vu all over again," Yogi Berra, the American baseball star, is alleged to have said in a famous malapropism. But it is the literal truth of my response to the reports that the infant...

Behaving badly... the BBC and Fincham By Simon Heffer 14/07/2007 The Telegraph The BBC should show the Queen more respect Let us suppose, for a moment, that our beloved Queen had behaved in the way that a BBC trailer originally showed her to have done: that she had stormed out of...

An interesting article about the lefty Beeb's obsession with former Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, probably the most controversial Prime Minister's consort since Caroline Lamb, the famously unfaithful wife of Prime Minister Melbourne in the 1830s..... Forget the Queen fiasco...

How the world would thrive without mankind By MICHAEL HANLON (Science Editor) 13th July 2007 Daily Mail Six-and-half billion - and rising. That is how many humans crowd our Planet Earth. And there is no doubt that we are wreaking terrible damage on our world. So much so that scientists...

The decline of Great Britain as the world's dominant economic, military, political and naval power in the late 1700s, the 1800s and the early 1900s to current levels... Two Elizabeths—A Study in Contrasts How times have changed! Queen Elizabeth I reigned over one of Britain's greatest...

England midfielder David Beckham was today officially declared a Los Angeles Galaxy player. The world's most famous footballer has joined LA Galaxy to raise the profile of the world's most popular team sport in the United States and to be paid a colossal £128 million. Beckham launches football...

Iraq pulled off a shock victory against Australia, one of the countries who invaded Iraq in 2003 and sent the greatest number of troops there after the US and Britain. Australia were the pre-tournament favourites to be crowned wo win the tournament and be crowned Asian Champions. Under the...

Brown issues coded warning to the U.S. over aggressive foreign policy 13th July 2007 Daily Mail Prime Minister Gordon Brown has raised eyebrows in Washington by apearing to move away from Blair's foreign policy Gordon Brown has taken a decisive step away from Tony Blair's foreign...

As the BBC is accused of dumbing down by unveiling a new one minute long news show to be broadcast every night at 8pm..... How would Natasha Kaplinsky have handled history's biggest stories? by DAVID THOMAS 13th July 2007 Daily Mail Has she got news for you: The BBC's Natasha Kaplinsky...

The flatpack fighter: Build a Spitfire for a mere £130,000 by NICK McDERMOTT 12th July 2007 Daily Mail The distinctive silhouette against the clouds and the spinetingling roar of its engine caused thousands of young British boys to look skywards. Many dreamed of one day flying a...