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A football match was delayed at Oldham Athletic's Boundary Park on Saturday after unwanted visitors swarmed around the goalposts. A queen bee had attached herself to one of the posts, causing the penalty area to become a hive of activity. The referee suspended the start of the pre-season...

How Arctic ice has made fools of all those poor warmists The belief that the ice was vanishing has been for the warmists the ultimate poster-child for their cause...

A 3D-printed aircraft has been launched from a Royal Navy ship and landed safely on a Dorset beach. The navy said the test flight from HMS Mersey demonstrated the potential use of small, unmanned aircraft at sea. Cdr Bow Wheaton said the navy was "very interested" in possible uses of unmanned...

Most Fifa members around the world, with the exception of Russia and the Asian members, are to find out today what teams they will face for the 2018 World Cup qualification. Gibraltar, a member of Uefa (which is why it's taking part in the Euro 2016 qualifying), is not a member of FIFA so will...

Tate Britain, on London's Millbank, is to hold a new exhibition on the British Empire - Artist and Empire - the first major show to explore the artistic legacy of the greatest empire the world has ever known. The Empire strikes back: This awesome painting of a bloodied British soldier...

The Spectator's Rod Liddle has had enough of living amongst us filthy kafir pigs and dogs so he has decided to run off and join Islamic State. I’m off to join Islamic State. See ya, kafirs! There’s plenty I can find to do out there, and if I don’t like it I’ll just come back...

Today is Prince George's 2nd birthday and, to mark the occasion, a picture of him with his dad has been released. Prince George photograph released to mark 2nd birthday 21 July 2015 BBC News An official picture of Prince George has been released to mark his second...

A university is in "exploratory discussions" to build the world's deepest swimming pool for spaceflight and human endurance research. The proposed 164ft (50m) deep pool at the University of Essex would be far deeper than NASA's own 40ft (12m) deep training pool in Houston. If it goes...

Nah. It's aliens or time travellers from the future. At least try and make your theory sound at least mildly plausible.

A classic case of alien spacecraft flying in formation.

The horror of the Blitz brought raw terror to Britain’s streets 75 years ago. Despite the popular image of plucky East Enders saying ‘We can take it!’, a new book suggests the reality was sometimes very different. Secret history of the Blitz: The Oxford student driven so crazed by terror...

An ancient lakeside fortress older than the Pyramids has been uncovered on a new housing estate - and archaeologists believe it is one of the world's oldest known boat building communities. The wooden fort was built on stilts standing over a long-vanished Ice Age lake 4,900 years ago to...

A pair of peregrine falcons has set up home in an old crow's nest at a football stadium in Milton Keynes. The world's fastest predatory birds have also produced a chick that has just fledged from Stadium mk, the home of the MK Dons. Martin Kincaid, biodiversity officer at The Parks Trust...

An incredible labyrinth of forgotten Second World War tunnels built beneath the White Cliffs of Dover will reopen to the public today for the first time in 40 years. The Fan Bay Deep Shelter was carved out of chalk in just 100 days in the 1940s as part of Dover’s connected gun battery...

The Queen, apparently impatient to get to church, veered onto a grass verge to avoid a family strolling through Windsor Great Park. The monarch took to the wheel of a Jaguar X-type estate as she drove herself down the Long Walk on the Windsor estate on Sunday. But when she found her...

Around 150,000 artefacts spanning over 2,000 years of England's history are now on show to the public at English Heritage's Archaeological Store at Wrest Park in Silsoe, Bedfordshire. From pottery recovered from the moat at London's Jewel Tower to carved stonework recovered from...

Thousands of people are expected to turn out to smell the "stench of rotting flesh" after a rare "corpse flower" finally bloomed. A titan arum flowered on Saturday for the first time in 11 years at Cambridge University Botanic Garden. The bloom lasts just two days days and emits its smell...

Or LESS rooted in it. Modern Canadians are probably the least religious and most materialistic people on Earth. Unlike most other societies, modern Canadians have this bizarre notion that everything in this world that can or maybe be explained HAS been explained and that there is nothing...

The story of the doomed assault by the Light Dragoons during the War in Afghanistan which has inspired two works of art... Marching into the jaws of death: Haunting Mail photo of troops launching doomed Afghan assault that's inspired two works of art Shows infantry and vehicles of Light...

Justin Pollard offers the would-be revolutionaries among you some light-hearted advice on how to lead an uprising – using everyone from Lenin to a bunch of Dutch desperadoes as examples. Plus, he has some handy illustrations of what not to do if you’d far prefer to maintain the status...