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A suspected stowaway is thought to have plunged to his death after falling from a plane and landing on a shop in a High Street - while another is in hospital after surviving the journey. The two men are believed to have clung on to a British Airways plane as it flew more than 6,000...

He was widely despised during his brief reign as King of England. But almost 530 years since Richard III was slain, the controversial monarch’s reputation is enjoying something of a revival. The infamous royal, whose remains were discovered beneath a Leicester car park in 2012 and was who...

Always losing the TV remote control? Well, don't worry, because Auntie has come up with a solution. BBC develops 'mind-control TV' headset for iPlayer app 18 June 2015 BBC News In tests, some people found using...

Visit any castle, stately home or battlefield this summer and you may find a host of characters, from Romans to the Red Army, via Robin Hood, waiting to welcome you. In bringing the past to life, these historical re-enactors need the right kit for the job, but just where do you buy a...

Should we feel sorry for people who join barbarian jihadist groups like ISIS? Douglas Murray asks because he had always assumed that people who volunteered to join gangs which specialise in rape, decapitation and ethnic cleansing should be looked on with opprobrium. But the ground is, it...

Ten years after 7/7 ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan plotted the London bomb attacks from his home in Dewsbury, the West Yorkshire town, which has a large Muslim population, is once again back in the national spotlight for the wrong reasons with the death of Britain's youngest suicide...

The final part of a Cumbrian excavation to unearth the history of what is believed to be the biggest ever find of Roman altars in Britain has begun. A team of archaeologists and volunteers has spent five years investigating the origins of 17 altars found at Maryport Roman fort in 1870...

For 40 terrifying minutes on Sunday, English cricket held its breath after a sickening collision between two Surrey fielders. The crowd of 8,500 at Arundel were left stunned after Moises Henriques and Rory Burns were knocked unconscious after running into each other at high speed going for...

The European Space Agency (Esa) says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth. Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, was dropped on to the surface of Comet 67P by its mothership, Rosetta, last November. It worked for 60 hours before its solar-powered battery ran...

Prince George has joined members of the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for an RAF flypast to mark the Queen's official birthday. It is the first time he has attended the annual event, which follows the Trooping of the Colour parade in central London. More than 1,000...

Lucky baaaaaaaastaaaaaaaaard! A EuroMillions ticket bought in the UK has won a jackpot of £93,388,943 (that's CAN$179,025,856.62), lottery operator Camelot has confirmed. The prize - the biggest in the UK this year and the sixth-biggest ever in the country - has not yet been claimed. A...

An old mould linked to British scientist Sir Alexander Fleming's research which led to the discovery of penicillin is set to fetch thousands of pounds at auction next month. The specimen, which is mounted on paper signed by Sir Alexander, was part of ground-breaking work which...

Sir Christopher Lee, the screen legend whose career took him from Hammer horror to Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and a role as one of the great Bond villains, has died. He was 93. The veteran actor died at 8.30am on Sunday at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, sources close to his...

The famously changeable British weather has long been the subject of complaint and small talk. Here, ahead of what the red-tops claim will be a ‘heatwave’ later this week, Patrick Nobbs explores six of the most disastrous weather events in British history... 6 of the most catastrophic...

This is the kind of place I will one day live in. A manor with six huge axe marks cut into its oak front door by the axes of Oliver Cromwell's army in the English Civil War has gone on the market for £4.75million. Cromwell's Roundheads attempted to gain entry to West Hall as they...

In what's been dubbed Britain's Klondike, the south-west corner of England saw its very own gold rush 4,500 years ago. By studying precious artefacts, archaeologists have found evidence of an ancient gold trading route between Devon, Cornwall and Ireland. It is estimated that up to 440 lbs...

The Royal Navy expects to have saved more than 1,000 migrants by the end of today - in their biggest rescue operation in the Mediterranean so far. Pregnant women and young children are among the 700 desperate people already picked up by HMS Bulwark around 27 miles from the coast of...

The face of a Saxon man has been been revealed using remains buried in Lincoln almost 1,000 years ago. Experts used his skeleton, discovered on the site of an old church at Lincoln Castle, to reconstruct what he would have looked like. And analysis reveals he would have been around 40 when...

The length of Hadrian's Wall has become a stage for a huge live musical performance. Hundreds of musicians have travelled the wall's 73 miles (117km) using transport including a vintage bus, motorbikes, unicycles and a tractor, passing a baton from performer to performer. Part of BBC...

Alien contact is likely to come from machines living on other worlds outside of the solar system, the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees has said. Prof Lord Rees, 72, told the Cheltenham Science Festival ‘I’m not holding my breath’ for signs of extraterrestrial life, but said if a signal...