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Two crop circles which appear to show the face of Jesus Christ have appeared in Berkshire. The images, which appear to resemble the face of Jesus as he appears in the Turin Shroud (if, indeed, the image in the Turin Shroud IS that of Jesus), have appeared on either side of the M4 motorway in...

A Canadian team has found the wreck of the 19th century Royal Navy ship HMS Investigator in the Canadian Arctic. HMS Investigator left Britain in 1848, captained by Robert McClure, and made two attempts to find the ill-fated Franklin expedition. But its crew abandoned the ship in Mercy Bay...

Iran's ladies' rugby union team bowed onto the European stage in the most unusual of ways - its players wore Islamic veils during matches. Rugby has been growing in popularity in Iran since it was introduced into the country 10 years ago. This week, the team played in Europe - the hotbed of...

Experts have been left baffled by the sighting of what looks like a Loch Ness Monster-type sea creature off the coast of Devon. The long-necked creature, which resembles a supposedly-extinct plesiosaur, was supposedly stalking and snapping at fish, which were so terrified that they ended up...

Just days after showing that Eton's history department is probably not as good as you might think it is by saying that Britain was "the junior partner" to the US in 1940, despite the fact that the US hadn't even entered the war in 1940 and Britain was saving the world by taking on the Germans on...

Isn't the US Senate's hounding of BP nauseating? Two weeks after BP sucessfully capped the leak, there is now little evidence of surface pollution. John Amos, president of environmental pressure group SkyTruth, says: “Oil has a finite life span at the surface. At this point, that oil slick...

Olympic stars Sir Chris Hoy and Michael Johnson helped to mark two years before the start of the London 2012 Summer Olympics yesterday. The 30th Olympiad will commence on 27th July 2012 and end on 12th August. London will then become the city which has hosted the Summer Olympics more times...

Startling new figures highlight just how amazingly quickly Britain's population is growing. New figures show that of last year's 1.4 million increase in the EU's population, Britain contributed to a THIRD of it. The huge amount of immigration into Britain was one factor in Britain's rapidly...

PM says UK should show India some "humility." Should it not be the other way round? British Prime Minister David Cameron has arrived in India with the largest British delegation to visit that country since the British Raj ended in 1947. And, fresh from his gaffe during his recent visit to...

A phenomenon known as a "sun dog" has been spotted in the glorious blue skies over Bournemouth beach. Beachgoers on the Dorset beach gazed upwards on Tuesday to watch the beautiful phenomenon, which occurs when sunlight is refracted by hexagonal-shaped ice crystals in high and cirrus clouds...

The residents of the tiny Dorset hamlet of Shi tterton have decided to take matters into their own hands after the signpost announcing its name was repeatedly stolen by souvenir hunters with a fondness for lavatory humour. In a big nod towards the Coalition Government's "Big Society", in which...

After 173 years of receiving invited guests, Buckingham Palace is about to open its new cafe, open to all. The Queen and several other members of the Royal Family are currently at the start of their two week holiday cruising around the Outer Hebrides on the small cruise ship Hebridean...

Hypocrites Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton have both accepted large donations from a BP employees committee. In the donation period ending in 2008, Obama took $71,051, and Clinton $6700 from BP staff in donations. And three out of the four senators who demanded a meeting with British Prime...

British Prime Minister David Cameron made an extraordinary gaffe during his recent visit to the United States by saying, quite wrongly, that Britain was the "junior partner" to the United States in 1940 during World War II. Despite the Tory PM having attended Eton, one of the best schools in...

Brian Cox was once the keyboard player for pop band D:Ream, whose 1993 No1 hit "Things Can Only Get Better" was used by the Labour Party during their 1997 General Election campaign. After attending Hulme Grammar School in Oldham, his home town, he studied physics at the University of...

For several years after WWII, millions of people across the country suffered due to the rationing that was in place. But one man came up with a solution to beat the coal rationing - he built a 40ft mine in his garden out of everyday objects. Bramwell Pashley used a vacuum cleaner to keep...

Joe Cole leaves Chelsea to sign for Liverpool, the "biggest club in England." England midfielder Joe Cole has left Chelsea to join Liverpool. The Londoner left his native city to sign a four-year deal and will be paid £80,000 a week. He also snubbed offers from London teams Arsenal and Spurs...

Soho, in London's West End, is famous for its sex shops, upmarket restaurants, media offices and the Broad Street water pump which was the subject of Dr. John Snow's study of an 1854 outbreak of cholera in the area in which he noted that the victims were mostly people whose nearest access to...

Earlier this month, a Gurkha patrol in Afghanistan was sent out by the British Army's top brass with orders to track down a Taliban warlord described as a 'high-value target'. A fierce battle ensued between the Gurkhas and the Taliban, during which the Taliban warlord was killed. But they...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of someone who they think may have been a British female gladiator. The skeleton of a 'massive, muscular woman' was found in an elaborate wooden coffin with iron straps and copper strips in Credenhill, Herefordshire - close to the headquarters of the...