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Why the French worship Napoleon as a hero is beyond me (though, come to think of it, they ARE French, so what do you expect?) because more proof has come to light as to just what a madman he was and that he was no more of a hero than Kaiser Bill and Hitler. After his defeat by Great Britain in...

An archaeologist has discovered what she hopes will be a lucky charm for the England lads at the World Cup in South Africa. Caroline Rann, an archaeologist for the county of Warwickshire, found a coat of arms which is believed to date back to the 1200s, featuring the Three Lions, England's...

One thing you can be almost certain of in a World Cup is for there to be a renewal of the intense English-German rivalry. In this tournament it's started despite the fact that England and Germany haven't even played each other (though they will play each other in the Last 16 if England top...

Thank God that Britain's isn't an ordinary, mundane, run-of-the-mill republic, otherwise it wouldn't have lavish ceremonies such as Trooping the Colour. The ceremony marks the official birthday of the Queen. She has two birthdays each year, her actual birthday in April, and her official...

The limitations of the human brain mean we may never understand the secrets of the universe, says Britain's top scientist. Lord Rees, who is the President of the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific institution, has said that questions about the big bang and the existence of parallel...

England and the United States met each other last night in the World Cup, the first time the two teams have met in this competition for 60 years. With all the sickening anti-Britishness coming out of the United States in recent weeks over the oil spill and Americans wrongly referring to the...

Many people speak of the "Special Relationship", the supposed closeness of Great Britain and the United States politically and militarily, two countries which are supposed to share the same values. But, when it comes to the actual people of Great Britain and the United States, there exists...

Archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the world's only well-preserved Roman gladiator cemetery - not in Rome but in the English city of York. Around 80 skeletons were found in a residential area of the ancient city and are believed to be 2,000 years old. The horrific injuries...

The Queen is to visit Ground Zero in New York next month during an eight-day stay in the US. Whilst there, she will also give her first address to the 192 members of the United Nations General Assembly since 1957. The monarch will also visit Wimbledon this summer for the first time since...

Joe Cole, probably England's most technically skillful player, has said that his World Cup experience means he deserves a place in England's starting line-up for their opening match of this year's World Cup, which is against the United States in Group C on Saturday at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium...

Twin baby girls are being treated in hospital after being savaged by an urban fox. Nine-month-olds Lola and Isabella Koupparis were sleeping in their cots in the Stoke Newington district of the London borough of Hackney on Saturday night when the fox crept in through the rear patio doors after...

The fact that Wednesday's gun spree, in which taxi driver Derrick Bird travelled 45-miles around the Lake District in Cumbria killing 12 people and injuring 25 took place in a rural area should hardly be surprising - after all, there are just 1.4 million legally registered shotguns in the whole...

England may only have been playing relative minnows Bangladesh, who are the world's lowest ranked Test team and who only became a Test team ten years ago, but the nature of their win will still make the other nations - especially Australia, who will soon battle against England in the forthcoming...

Blinking in the sunshine, the rabbit surveys its surroundings. But the creature isn't in the relative safety of a field or desolate moorland, but at the side of a busy road. The cute little bunny isn't going to get squished. Instead, it's going to cross the road by going through the drains...

Cumbria Constabulary face a number of questions over their handling of the Cumbria shootings, in which maniac Derrick Bird killed 12 people and injured 25. Taxi driver Bird travelled on his 45-mile murderous journey along Cumbria's mountainous countryside in his taxi with two guns, a .22 rifle...

The fabled British stiff upper lip and ability to keep calm in a crisis may help us to win most wars we fight, but they were taken a tad too far in this incident. When the barrister couple Sophie and Nick unearthed an unexploded WWI bomb in the Moseley area of Birmingham, they decided to not...

Daredevils ignored Britain's silly Health and Safety Brigade by taking part in an unofficial cheese-rolling contest after the original was banned because it was deemed too dangerous - despite it having taken place for centuries. The eccentric tradition takes place at Cooper's Hill near...

A crown has been carved out of a half-ton block of Cheddar cheese to celebrate the 57th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. Cordon Bleu chef Tanys Pullin spent 90 hours crafting it out of a 1,322lb block of Farmhouse Cheddar, one of the most quintessentially British of cheeses...

At least five people are dead - but possibly as many as 10 according to some reports - and 25 injured after a gunman went on a shooting spree in Cumbria, the most beautiful of England's counties. The normally peaceful rural county - the home of the Lake District which inspired William...

Britain's new science minister, David Willetts, has declared that space is an important growth sector for the UK economy and that the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government will do all it can to support it. Willetts told the BBC: "I believe in the space industry." Willetts was speaking...