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Indian cricket phenomenon Sachin Tendulkar - nicknamed "the Little Master" - has retired from the game after he helped India to an innings victory over the West Indies in the Second Test. On his 200th and last Test match, however, he failed to score his 101st century. His first innings score...

The Sri Lankan government has rejected Britain's call for an international inquiry into human rights abuses after the civil war. Prime Minister David Cameron urged President Mahinda Rajapaksa to ensure an independent inquiry, or face a UN investigation. But senior minister Basil Rajapaksa...

For the first time since 1799, no Briton alive now was alive during the 1800s. The UK's oldest woman, Grace Jones, has died at the age of 113. She was born on 7th December 1899 and was the last living Briton to have been born in the 1800s. Miss Jones, from Bermondsey, south east London...

5.2 million people last night watched the last ever episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot. The British TV drama series based on Agatha Christie's novels about a Belgian detective has been on our screens since 1989 and has had 13 series, with classically-trained actor David Suchet playing the...

The remains of a young Roman girl have been found by archaeologists in Witherley, Leicestershire. They prised open the child's coffin for the first time in 1,700 years and found two jet bracelets in there with her, desbribing the find as "unusual". The child is as yet unnamed, but...

British scientists accidentally killed the world's oldest-known creature. Poor old Ming the mollusc saw off Queen Elizabeth I, the English Civil War, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and two World Wars - but suddenly came a cropper when the climate scientists got their mitts on...

A mountain in Scotland is six inches shorter than previously thought, meaning it is no longer classified as a Munro Top. In Scotland, Munros and Munro Tops are mountains which are over 3,000ft. Knight's Peak on the Isle of Skye had been listed as 3,0002ft. However, surveyors using GPS...

Europe's Goce satellite has been seen burning up through the atmosphere by some Falkland Islanders. The European Space Agency's (Esa) Goce satellite - which has been dubbed "the Ferrari of space" due to its sleek looks - was the first European satellite to make an uncontrolled re-entry into...

Plans for a new six-runway airport that could be built within seven years have been released. The proposed airport would sit on an artificial island off the Isle of Sheppy in Kent in the Thames Estuary. But the £47.3 billion airport - dubbed "Boris Island" after London Mayor Boris Johnson...

You'll have to try hard to find a more beautiful, more feel-good story than this one. When Harold Jellicoe Percival died last month aged 99, he had no family or close friends to attend his funeral except a handful of care home staff. It seemed as if there would be nobody to mourn the WWII...

The wreck of a mysterious boat has been seen for the first time after fierce winds shifted the sand it was buried in. The wreck is situated just off a beach in the shadow of the mighty Bamburgh Castle in the far north of England and it first appeared in June. Since then a team of...

A group of riders dressed in red have created the world's largest poppy for Remembrance Sunday. About 15,000 bikers travelled along the M25, which is Europe's busiest road and which circles London. The road is 117 miles in circumference. The event raised £2,300 for the Royal British Legion...

Jellied eel has been a great delicacy in London for centuries, and there are shops dotted around London selling the great Cockney dish of jellied eel pie and mashed potato. But, for the first time, sales of jellied eels are now soaring elsewhere in the UK. Tesco has seen its jellied eel...

What is not commonly known is that Charles Darwin wasn't the only person to come up with the Theory of Evolution. His fellow British scientist Alfred Russel Wallace came up with the theory at the same time as Darwin, and both co-published their theory in 1858. Now, to mark 100 years since...

Have you ever wanted to travel back in time and wonder the streets of a town or city in a previous century? Now you can, thanks to a new video game. The 3D game has been developed by De Montfort University in Leicester and allows gamers to wander the tightly packed streets of London just...

Prince Charles and Camilla have started a nine day tour of India. The future king and his wife have visited the holy city of Rishikesh on the banks of the sacred Ganges where they joined Hindu worshippers conducting the Aarti ceremony. It is performed every sunset by devotees who wave...

One of the things about the Puritan New Left which runs the Western world today is that they hate anyone having any sort of innocent fun. Anyone seen to be having even the smallest amount of fun will soon find a ton of Left Wing bricks coming down on them. One of the latest victims is the...

Other Europeans may dismiss the British as a race addicted to reality TV and celebrity gossip shows, but a new survey proves otherwise. In actual fact, the British are the most cultured of all Europeans, beating the rest of Europe on nine key cultural measures. The French may believe they...

Another brilliant article from my favourite newspaper columnist Richard Littlejohn, who today has been writing about the fact that stalls selling poppies have been set up at British mosques, in conjunction with the Royal British Legion, and that Julie Siddiqi, the executive director of the...

In the 19th Century, London was the greatest city on Earth, a vast, bustling metropolis, the richest and biggest city on the planet, and the centre of an empire so vast that it was impossible for the sun to ever set on the whole of it. In 1877 and 1878, the Scottish photographer John Thomson...