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American author Bill Bryson is so much of an Anglophile that he has spent most of his adult life living in Great Britain. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951, Bryson visited the UK in 1973, fell in love with the place and decided to stay. He fell in love with a nurse at the psychiatric hospital...

Now that Britain has voted to leave, proof that economics matters less than you might think is the sad sight of some Remainers willing us to fail. Every piece of economic data is picked through for signs of impending doom – like a Roman fortune teller dissecting entrails. But if there...

A royal funeral takes place in central Romania on Saturday for a queen who was never crowned and never served and yet still commands full state honours. Anne of Romania will be buried at Curtea de Arges. A day of mourning has been declared in both Romania and Moldova, and flags will fly...

Remainers have received another blow. Since Britain voted to leave the EU, they have been saying that funding in science and farming and deprived areas of the country will be hit because Britain will no longer receive EU subsidies (which is actually British money that the EU gives us back and...

Archaeologists have identified rare human bones as the remains of Britain's last hunter-gatherers on a small island in the Inner Hebrides. There is a surprising absence of human remains from the Late Mesolithic era which came just prior to the arrival of farming in Britain in around...

A 4,500-year-old monument experts thought was "another Stonehenge" is now understood to have not contained any standing stones at all. Archaeologists digging at Durrington Walls - about two miles from Stonehenge - said they now believed the Neolithic site was surrounded by timber posts...

Michael Phelps has broken a 2,000-year-old Olympic record by surpassing the 12 individual titles won by Leonidas of Rhodes. Who was this athlete whose record has taken two millennia to beat, asks Jon Kelly? Who, What, Why: Who was Leonidas of Rhodes? By Who, What Why...

Each of the 206 nations taking part in the Rio Olympics must respect the right of athletes to compete for team places, regardless of age, disability, gender and race. But there was a time when these rights were anything but respected, explains Robert Hume… Unsporting conduct at the...

The editor of the Financial Times, Lionel Barber, has been offered the prestigious Legion d’Honneur by France’s socialist government. But why? Before the referendum, the FT campaigned with every sinew for Britain to remain in the EU, and following the result it has relentlessly...

What Remainers are rowing back on their Project Fear warnings? Here's a little list... Coffee House Brexit U-turns: Who is rowing back on their Project Fear warnings? Tom Goodenough...

Ricky Gervais's feature film outing as David Brent has received mixed reviews following Wednesday's world premiere. Titled Life on the Road, the movie, unveiled in London, is a spin-off from the hit BBC TV series The Office. While some critics thought it "excruciatingly brilliant", others...

Dan Snow talks to Rob Attar about how the ground-breaking rise of the railways reshaped British society and ultimately undermined the empire... A rail revolution: Dan Snow on the meteoric rise of British railways Dan Snow talks to Rob Attar about how the ground-breaking rise of the railways...

Billionaire landowner and philanthropist the Duke of Westminster has died aged 64, his family said. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor died at the Royal Preston Hospital in Lancashire on Tuesday after suddenly becoming ill on his Abbeystead Estate. The duke's fortune was estimated at £8.3bn...

Could the brands you like reveal the way you are likely to vote? That's one of the intriguing questions thrown up by a new analysis of the consumer preferences of tens of thousands of Brexit and Remain voters. In the last few weeks ranks of political experts have attempted to map and...

Four passengers and crew on an RAF helicopter have survived after it crashed into a mountain peak in Snowdonia. Witnesses said thick black smoke could be seen for miles around the top of the Welsh peak. Walkers on the mountain in north-west Wales reported seeing 10ft high flames. BREAKING...

During the EU in/out referendum campaign, much of the Remainers' Project Fear medicine focused on what it might mean for British tourists heading overseas; the answer could be largely summarised as all doom and gloom. Now, a month on from the June 23rd vote, British tourism is...

Warfare is a constantly evolving science, but sometimes, outdated weapons are good enough to get the job done. From longbow-wielding commandos to Civil War pikes and World War II biplane bombers, these weapons stuck around longer than they should have... Top 10 Obsolete Weapons That Were...

The Battle of Britain has long been hailed as the triumph of the plucky underdog over the Nazi goliath. Yet, says James Holland, when rival fighters clashed over England in 1940, it was the RAF that held all the aces... The Battle of Britain: a brilliant triumph that involved far more...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a late winner as Manchester United defeated English champions Leicester City to win the Community Shield. The 34-year-old Swedish striker, signed from Paris Saint-Germain on 1st July, headed the ball into the net late into the match on his Manchester United competitive...

Manchester United are on the brink of re-signing Paul Pogba from Juventus in the first £100m ($131m) transfer deal. The 23-year-old will have a medical in the next few days before what is set to be a world record transfer. Pogba, who left United for £1.5m in 2012 after making just seven...