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How our great Commonwealth ally, India, wishes Britain would leave the EU. Let's dump the EU and rekindle our love affair with India The visit this week of the Indian Prime Minister is a reminder of the mad EU rules that chain and trammel Britain...

A "significant" hoard of Anglo Saxon gold unearthed by a metal detector in a Leeds field is to go on show. Seven objects including four rings, which date between the 7th to 11th centuries, were discovered in separate searches in 2008 and 2009. Leeds' Anglo Saxon gold hoard to go on display...

Britain is the world's only global power - yet it is not the army or economy, but the cultural influence of singers like Adele and literary giants like Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes which puts us head and shoulders above our neighbours. The UK won the title thanks to the combination...

As we squeak and gibber about the distant danger of terrorism, this country stands on the brink of a real threat to its economy, its daily life and its order... PETER HITCHENS: Warmists armed with windmills are the REAL threat to Britain By Peter Hitchens for The Mail on Sunday...

Britain paid respect to her war dead during a two minutes' silence starting at 11am this morning as Remembrance Sunday was marked across the country. Thousands gathered at the Cenotaph memorial in Whitehall to honour those killed in World Wars One and Two and later conflicts. The monarch...

Comedian and actor Alexander Armstrong is best-known now for being the co-presenter of hit BBC One gameshow Pointless everyday except Sunday. But he's also a very good singer. "Xander", as he is nicknamed, is a former choir boy at Durham Cathedral and has released his debut classical album, A...

The 135th edition of the FA Cup, the world's oldest football tournament, starts tonight when tiny Salford City take on Notts Country in a live televised match. VS Salford City, who play in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, the seventh tier of the English footballing pyramid, are...

The Roman army was built on precision - a military machine with legions of disciplined soldiers. But it seems not even the hardiest of their men and the most skilled of their stonemasons were a match for the banks of the River Tyne. Excavations in Wallsend, North Tyneside have revealed...

Ahead of Bonfire Night tomorrow, we explore the life of the conspirator most closely associated with the foiled 1605 Gunpowder Plot… Life of the Week: Guy Fawkes...

Some addresses in London, it turns out, have more than a few skeletons in their closets. A new interactive map shows the precise locations of the capital’s plague pits, where victims of the epidemic that killed around 100,000 people in the 17th century were buried en masse. The map...

A football fan whose parents named him after all eleven members of a winning Leeds United team has gone against his name - to support Arsenal. Dominic Cazaux, 22, is in a league of his own when it comes to his full name after his parents decided to name him after an entire football...

These incredible photos show two British birds of prey doing aerial battle for a meal as a brave kestrel tries to steal a meal from an owl twice its size. The barn owl swooped through the air gripping a vole with its hooked beak, while a sly kestrel followed in pursuit, hoping for a...

David Cameron has been ridiculed online after Downing Street was caught photoshopping a fake, oversized poppy onto a picture of the Prime Minister and using it as an official Facebook picture. Hilarious memes poking fun at the Downing Street blunder swamped the internet after eagle-eyed...

BAE Systems has bought a 20% stake in a company developing a radical engine that could propel aircraft into space. BAE is paying £20.6m for the stake in Reaction Engines, which is developing a hybrid rocket/jet engine called Sabre. Reaction says the technology would allow the launch of...

An "extremely well preserved" family burial vault has been discovered "accidentally" at Gloucester Cathedral. The tomb in the North Transept contains coffins belonging to the Hyett family dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. It was found by archaeologists who lifted a neighbouring...

A dig in Jersey has yielded a stash of hunter-gatherer artefacts from the end of the last Ice Age, including stone pieces criss-crossed by carved lines. They are similar to engravings found from the same period in continental Europe, but are the first of their kind in the British Isles...

Adult colouring books are all the rage at the moment, and one is now on sale featuring the Labour Party's new Far-Left leader Jeremy Corbyn. One image by artist James Nunn lampoons his unofficial 'Jez We Can' campaign slogan, and features him in front of a bright red bus headed straight...

Legend has it, it could be the skull of William Shakespeare - robbed from the playwright's grave to win a £300 bet. But clergymen attempting to solve a centuries-old mystery over the identity of a lone skull found in a Worcestershire church vault have been thwarted by a senior church...

Why the Paris climate treaty will be the flop of the year - Telegraph

It's the Muslims again... ISIS claims responsibility for Russian jet crash: Victims 'found over three-mile radius' after plane with 224 on board crashes in Egypt leaving no survivors - but officials blame 'technical fault' ISIS...