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Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson today adds his views to the world of science. Explorers - many of them extravagantly bearded - have discovered more than a thousand new species in south east Asia. Many of these creatures are so dangerous it's probably worth just leaving them alone - such as the...

In 2001, the British put an Iranian organisation onto their list of proscribed terrorist groups, and wanted the other EU countries to do the same, only for the EU to say that that is "unlawful." France backed Britain, but an EU minister had the audacity to send Sarkozy a letter saying there...

The Queen is such a fan of new British movie "A Bunch of Amateurs" that she has chosen it as the Royal family's Christmas film at Sandringham. The film, which stars Derek Jacobi, Burt Reynolds and Imelda Staunton, is about a sleazy Hollywood agent who tricks one of his clients, a faded action...

The Rev David Wylie, of the Royal Navy, is the Task Force's Senior Chaplain in Helmand Province. Today, he delivers an uplifting Christmas message.... From Helmand province, a truly uplifting Christmas message in the midst of mourning By The Rev David Wylie, Royal Navy, the Task Force...

Britain today commerates the 20th anniversary of its worst-ever terrorist attack. On 21st December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, flying from London's Heathrow to New York's JFK, was destroyed by a bomb over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, just a few miles from Scotland's border with England...

The champions of Europe, South America, North America, Asia, Africa and Oceania went to Japan to compete in the Club World Cup. Predictably, the Final - in Yokohama, where the 2002 (international) World Cup Final was held - was contested between the European Champions (Manchester United) and...

The world's oldest police force, the Metropolitan Police of London, is looking for a new boss. Who will it be? Who's for the hot seat? Dec 4th 2008 From The Economist print edition London’s police force needs a new boss Illustration by Claudio Munoz THE Commissioner of...

The Australians are quick to brand the British, or "Poms" as they call them, "whingeing Poms" over the stereotype, amongst Australians, that the British like to complain over the slightest things, especially when the Australians beat us in the rugby or cricket. But in recent years it's the...

The Daily Mail's Peter Hitchens says that even though Israel has done bad things in the past (like every country), it is NOT the Third Reich reincarnated. Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, how ignorant we are about you 17th December 2008 Peter Hitchens Daily Mail The eruption of the...

Princess Beatrice's pet dog - a Norfolk Terrier named Max - has gone missing in Windsor Great park, a 5000 acre deer park on the border between Berkshire and Surrey. He has been missing for over a week, but she has a helping hand - her grandmother. The Queen is a great dog lover. She has had...

A teenager was yesterday sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in gaol for the murder of 11-year-old football fan Rhys Jones in the Croxteth area of Liverpool last year. He has no chance of parole until he has served that time. Rhys Jones, an ardent Everton fan, was on his way home from football...

Mark Spencer from Easton, Hampshire has built the world's largest radio-controlled tank. It is 6 foot (1.8 metres) long and weighs a whopping 39 stones (250kg). The tank is a German WWII King Tiger.... The ultimate boys' toy: The giant radio-controlled tank that's SO powerful it could pull...

Newgate Gaol, which stood in London for many centuries (albeit being rebuilt several times, most notably after the Gordon Riots in 1780) between around 1122 and 1902 was, without doubt, the world's most notorious and infamous prison. So notorious that Americas's Sing Sing Prison was originally...

Both Britain and Germany may have been arguing with each other recently on how to solve the EU's economic woes, but this hasn't stopped the Germans being a nation of Anglophiles. From Last Night of the Proms to Blackadder and Faulty Towers, from fish & chips to polo, and from Jane Austen to...

Britain appears to have victory over Germany in the diplomatic war between the two nations after it secured a unanimous deal on a Europe-wide economic rescue package. Certain members of Germany's ruling coalition have criticised British Prime Minister's recent economic policy. Brown claims...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited British soldiers in Afghanistan - much to the anger of Winston Churchill's grandson. The PM visited the troops just hours after four British soldiers were killed in the area. Brown did better than his enemy Tony Blair, who never left the safety of a...

The England cricket team were in India preparing for this Test Series against India at the time of the Mumbai attacks. The attacks caused England to fly back home, in two minds as to whether or not to continue with the Series. To their credit, they blew a raspberry in the face of terrorism by...

Hallowe'en is an event which started in Britain millennia ago, when it was called Samhain. The ancient Britons believed that on October 31 the boundary between the living and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged...

Prince William looked a bit like his great-great-grandfather King George V yesterday, sporting a beard during a pheasant shoot at Sandringham, Norfolk. The future King was joined on the shoot by his brother Prince Harry, his girlfriend Kate Middleton and a mystery blonde.... Kate aims high...

I don't know what most Americans will think about it (but the British will think it's great), but the father of the man who is about the become the new US President was born in the British Empire. Obama's father was Kenyan, and he was born in Kenya whilst it was a part of the British Empire...