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Malaysian minister defends caning of prisoners as gruesome video appears on internet By DAVID WILLIAMS 1st August 2007 Daily Mail Strapped on a wooden frame, a prisoner braces himself for the brutal onslaught. Within moments of the first blow being struck by the cane-wielding official...

A personal gift from Dubya...but will Gordon REALLY wear his new bomber jacket? By BENEDICT BROGAN 2nd August 2007 Daily Mail It is an unlikely gift to give a man seldom seen out of a suit. Perhaps the giver, George Bush, was stuck for ideas, and tried to think of something he'd like...

Smirking murderer is led to the gallows as children join crowds at public executions in Iran 2nd August 2007 Daily Mail WARNING: This story contains graphic images Two more criminals have been publicly hanged in Iran as children looked on and people took pictures. Unrepentant, the...

Just HOW did Britain become the Earth's mightiest power? A closer look at the economic thinking of the Victorian British.... Laissez-faire and the Victorians By Professor Eric Evans Victorian advertisements at Charing Cross Sation, 1874 © Could Victorian Britain be called in any...

Kylie Minogue to appear on Dr Who as maid on the Titanic Australian singer/actress Kylie Minogue is to appear in an episode of Dr Who, set onboard the Titanic in 1912. She plays a maid and the threat to the Titanic is not an iceberg but an evil alien race. The story continues from the last...

Dumb fans of Los Angeles Galaxy are attacking David Beckham because he hasn't played much for the club since his arrival. It seems like Americans can't grasp the idea that a person can't play football when he has an injured foot, an injury he sustained during England's game against Estonia, and...

Last night, the British Army finally left Northern Ireland. It's what you could call a victory for Britain and democracy Since WWII, 1968 is probably the ONLY year in which a British soldiers hasn't been killed on operation anywhere in the world.... N Ireland SAS hero looks back The Falls...

Public executions in Iran as seven hang for rape and robbery 1st August 2007 Daily Mail Iran has publicly hanged seven men in the second round of collective executions in ten days, state media reported. "These people were hanged on charges of rape, kidnapping and robbery," the Web site...

Richard Littlejohn on the usual things that annoy him - political correctness, "yuman rites", soft judges, people having to wait until they're 110 years old to be able to get hearing aids.....and Red Indians languishing in British jails. Just another snapshot of typical life in Britain...

CRICKET India have won the Second Test against England by 7 wickets, but the game was overshadowed by a bizarre incident involving jelly beans. India claim that England were using devious tactics involving the confectionery.... Jelly beans sour England Test against India By Simon Briggs...

With the Civil War between the British and Northern Irish republicans ending in 1998, and the IRA still observing a cease fire it started in 1994, tonight the British Army pulls out of Northern Ireland, with it remaining firmly a part of the UK. The Daily Mail's Max Hastings attacks the...

British photographer Brian Valentine has captured the British summer in one of its most beautiful variations. He has taken photographs of flowers reflected in droplets of rain... A drop of magic: Amazing pictures of flowers captured in a drop of rain 31st July 2007 Daily Mail It's...

Choosing Sides in the English Civil War By Dr Mike Stoyle BBC The English Civil War was fought between Parliament whose soldiers - Roundheads - where led by Oliver Cromwell, and the Monarchy, whose soldiers - Cavaliers - were led by King Charles I. From royalism and religion to money...

From today, for the first time ever, more people will live in towns and cities than in the countryside. The modern rise of the city started in the 1700s when Britain started the Industrial Revolution, becoming the world's first industrialised nation. Britain was the first country in the world in...

After ten years of glitzy, ever-smiling Tony Blair, America was today introduced to new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a typical dour Scotsman.... Gordon Brown: We are at one in fighting terror By Matthew Moore, Sally Peck, Graeme Wilson and Toby Harnden 30/07/2007 Daily Mail...

Legend has it that a four-legged fiend with glowing eyes and a blood-curling howl stalks eerie, desolate Dartmoor, in Devon, in the far south west of Britain. Legend also has it that a pack of phantom black Hounds of Hell prowl these moors, which were the inspiration of Arthur Conan Doyle's...

If the invasion of Iraq never happened this momentous victory for Iraq might never have happened. Today Iraq were crowned Asian Champions after winning football's Asian Cup for the first time. Their previous best in the tournament ws 4th place in 1976. Their were joyous scenes throughout Baghdad...

From a very early age, many young Nepalese boys dream of joining the British Army as Gurkhas. They train for years in Nepal from childhood honing their deadly skills, before more intensive training when they join the British Army, which make them one of the most fearsome types of soldier in the...

The Battle of Passchendaele was fought in 1917 between the British Empire and its ally France against Germany. Now, in the 90th anniversary year of the battle, the last-surviving Tommy of that battle, Harry Patch, re-lives its horrors. Read this great man's story... Last survivor re-lives...

A Canadian businesswoman is set to become the latest member of the Royal Family as she marries Peter Phillips - the son of the Princess Royal, the brother of Zara Phillips, the cousin of Willia, and Harry and the nephew of Charles and Camilla.... The Queen's grandson to marry Canadian...