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The Duchess of Cambridge has today reopened a WWII codebreaking centre where her grandmother once worked. The future Queen, 32, reopened to the public a restored Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. The Duchess's paternal grandmother, Valerie Glassborow, who married the...

Archaeologists who have been excavating Easter Ross, a region in Scotland's Northern Highlands which is thought to have been a major heartland for the Pictish civilisation, are encouraging locals to join in. Archaeologists have found mounting evidence of their extensive occupation with recent...

It is commonly thought that if Earth suddenly stopped turning, everything would go floating off into space. But Michael Stevens has made a terrifying video on what will REALLY happen. The London-based scientist has outlined the devastating impact that a sudden halt to the Earth’s rotation...

The cockpit for the British Bloodhound supersonic car has been built and fitted out. Driver Andy Green, who will use the vehicle to try to break his own World Land Speed Record, calls it "my 1,000mph office". Bloodhound is about a year away from full assembly. The plan is to take it to...

Today is the Queen's official birthday, the second of her two birthdays a year. The occasion falls in either the first, second or, more rarely, the third Saturday in June, and this year it is today. And, as usual, the Trooping the Colour ceremony celebrated the occasion on Horse Guards Parade...

An Anglo-Saxon coin has fetched £78,000 at auction - because it could be a clue to a 1,200 year old murder mystery. It was struck in the reign of East Anglian ruler Æthelberht II (Old English: Æðelbrihte) and describes him as king – the only time this title has been found on a coin of his...

Harrison Ford has been taken to hospital after breaking his ankle on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire. The Hollywood actor, 71, who starred as Han Solo in the original three Star Wars films and is currently filming the new Episode VII sequel, was...

World War II veteran Prince Philip has spoken publicly for the first time of how he saved a Royal Navy ship from a German bomber in 1943. And the 93-year-old was typically phlegmatic about his exploits. The Queen's husband told how the destroyer he was serving on during the Allied invasion of...

Football-mad Brazil is about to host the 2014 World Cup, the first time it has hosted the World Cup since 1950. It is said that football may have been invented in England, but Brazil - which has football as its national religion in the same way that India has cricket as its - is where its...

Australia and Canada have invited the UK to join them in a "like-minded" alliance of conservative-run countries against "left-liberal" Obama. The two countries have each rolled back green policies in recent months, and want others to join them to resist a legally-binding international deal...

Comedy actor Rik Mayall, famous for his roles in classic comedies such as The Young Ones, Bottom, Blackadder and The New Statesman, has died aged 56. His body was found by his wife Barbara Robbin at their home in Barnes, south west London, early yesterday afternoon. A Scotland Yard spokesman...

School deemed "too white" forced to visit non-white pupils to "learn" about them Pupils at a school in rural Devon which has been described as being "too white" by school inspectors Ofsted have been forced to visit and "mix" with ethnic pupils at a school in the ethnically diverse Isleworth...

Look what feminism has given us. A mob of drunken female thugs indulged in very unladylike behaviour when they attacked a homeless man in the street after he asked them for change in Cardiff, south Wales. Turning on him, they shout ‘get a f****** job’, but it does not end there. A fight...

Argentina's footballers have sparked outrage after they posed with a banner which read "The Falklands are Argentine" before their 2-0 win against Slovenia in a World Cup warm-up match in Buenos Aires yesterday But despite Argentina's dubious claims on the islands, which have intensified since...

At 3,281ft, the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah will be the world's tallest building when it's completed in 2018. It will be 568ft taller than the currect world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The building, which will be the first human structure to reach the 1km high mark (it was...

The people of Paris have paid tribute to the Queen by naming a flower market in the city after her. Earlier today she and the Duke of Edinburgh, who travelled the fairly short journey from London to Paris by Eurostar, toured the market that will henceforth be known as Marche aux Fleurs -...

When 89-year-old D-Day veteran Bernard Jordan was found to be missing from his care home last night, staff must have feared the worst. They alerted police, who began searching the area around his home and checked with hospitals, bus firms and taxi companies. The mystery was solved when the...

Today’s commemoration of the 70th anniversary of D-Day is one of the last at which a diminishing band of the men who took part will be present. A few cynics will say: Time to move on, anyway. We live in a new world. Should we not forget about the Second World War, and get on with our...

557 miles from where I am now, in the small town of Arromanches overlooking the beaches of Normandy, thousands have gathered, including veterans, the Queen, Prince Charles and Camilla, and all the political leaders of the Allied nations, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day. In this...

Police are probing racist graffiti which has been daubed outside a primary school in north London. The graffiti, which read "WHITES NOW WELCOME", was daubed on a path leading to Prince of Wales Primary School in the London Borough of Enfield. Hundreds of children saw the words but Enfield...