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Portugal manager Luiz Felipe Scolari was last night confirmed as the new Chelsea manager, taking over at the West London giants on 1st July. Scolari's Portugal beat Czech Republic 3-1 in Euro 2008 last night, but the Brazilian has said he now wants to try his hand at club management. Scolari...

Beavers became extinct in England in 1526, but attempts to re-introduce them into the wild are proving successful. Here's one that built a dam in Ottery St Mary, Devon.... That's one dam fine beaver Busy beaver ... creature at work in Devon By JOHN COLES 12th June 2008...

On Monday, Prince William becomes the 1000th member of the Order of the Garter, the world's oldest order of chivalry. 1000 might seem a lot, but the Order of the Garter was established by King Edward III way back in 1348 - which means it's a very exclusive organisation. The Order of the...

The RAF have set a new world record by destroying the world's biggest drugs haul. Those magnificent men in their flying machines blew up a 237 ton stash of cannabis in Afghanistan... Pictured: RAF blow up world's biggest drugs haul worth £225 MILLION in Afghanistan desert By Daily Mail...

An RAF fighter pilot has been ordered by to trim his glorious moustache - by the Americans. Moustaches were popular amongst RAF pilots in World War II - and still remain popular today. However, moustaches are forbidden within the USAF. RAF Flight Lieutenant Chris Ball was ordered by an...

Dr John Sentamu - the 97th Archbishop of York - jumped out of a plane with the Red Devils, the British Army's Parachute Regiment freefall display team, to raise money for the new charity Afghanistan Trust. The charity was set up to help injured members of the British Army and the soldiers'...

Cricket's version of soccer's Champions League has been unveiled. The eight team tournament will feature teams from England & Wales, Australia, South Africa and India. It has been inspired by the successful new Indian Premier League (IPL). The two finalists from England's Twenty20 Cup -...

German and Polish football hooligans had to be separated by police as they clashed in Austria ahead of tonight's Euro 2008 game. Glasses were thrown in Klagenfurt and riot police had to step in. Around 25,000 police have been drafted in for tonight's Group B grudge match. Perhaps not...

Britain (working on its own, by the way, and without other European nations and the European Space Agency) is sending two crafts - Moonlite and Moonraker - to the Moon in 2013. Moonlite will fire, like missiles, instruments into the Moon's surface to perform tests. The tests for this firing...

England's football team may not be playing in Euro 2008, but the people can instead focus on the country's cricket team. A combination of magnificent England bowling and poor New Zealand batting gave England an emphatic victory on the Fourth Day of the Third, and final, Test in Nottingham this...

Europe's oldest man, Henry Allingham, celebrated his 112th birthday on Friday with an RAF flypast. Born in 1896, Henry is the last founding member of the RAF, the world's oldest, and best, air force. The RAF was known as the Flying Corps during WWI, and became the RAF in 1918 - it celebrated...

One of the things the British do better than anyone else in the world is pomp and pageantry, involving people wearing a huge array of different coloured uniforms. One of those events is Trooping the Colour, held every June to mark the Queen's official birthday. The Queen has two birthdays -...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and the Government, are hugely unpopular amongst the people at the moment, but one thing that the British public do agree with Brown on is the introduction of a new national holiday - British Day. Britain has fewer bank holidays than its European...

British soldier, Johnson Beharry, was awarded a Victoria Cross on 27th April 2005 by the Queen. He was given the awarded after putting his own life in danger to rescue 30 colleagues in two ambushes in Iraq. Now he has a giant tattoo of the VC on his back... Pain ... Beharry got...

A magnificent century from Kevin Pietersen has rescued England on the First Day of the Third Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. England were struggling on just 86-5 at one point, but Pietersen came to the rescue, scoring 115 runs, including 14 Fours (but no Sixes), to make...

Fifa, soccer's world governing body, will take no action with England after a confusion over substutions during England's 3-0 win in a friendly against Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday. A maximum of six substitutions per team are allowed in friendlies, but England made seven substitutions...

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has developed yet another technical glitch. If the mission fails, it will be America's ninth failed Mars mission... Nasa's Phoenix Mars Lander fails to scoop up sample of Martian soil By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles 05/06/2008 Telegraph Nasa's Phoenix...

An article on why it is the anti-EU people who are the best at recognising European countries' different traditions and customs... Bullfighting in Brussels by Daniel Hannan (British Tory Member of the European Parliament) 5th Jun 2008 Telegraph The great Sachin Tendulkar in action for...

The British Army will tonight undertake a huge operation to disarm a massive 2000lb German bomb that has been found at the site of the 2012 London Olympics. The bomb fell during the Luftwaffe's Blitz of London. Over 60 years after the War, British lives are still being put at risk... Army...

Prince Harry was met by thousands of admirers, especially girls, yesterday as he visited Wales. The younger son of the Prince of Wales, Harry was met by a crowd reminiscent of the ones that greeted The Beatles at the height of Beatlemania in the late 1960s with girls weeping and crying...