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Top scientists start to examine fiddled global warming figures The Global Warming Policy Foundation has enlisted an international team of five distinguished scientists to carry out a full inquiry...

That's the problem with modern birds. They expect all men to treat them like princesses but think they should not show men the same respect themselves. If you want your man to treat you like a "princess" every now and then the least you can do is get in the kitchen and cook his dinner for him...

It's the hallowed turf where the modern day game of rugby was born when one of its pupils picked up a football during a game and ran with it in the early 19th century. Rugby School is known as the spiritual home of the game, with the World Cup trophy named the Webb Ellis Cup in honour...

A minute's silence will be held before all Premier and Football League matches in England later to mark the 30th anniversary of the Bradford City fire. Fifty-six fans died and 265 were injured in the blaze at Valley Parade on 11 May 1985 during a match against Lincoln City. The match had...

Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Turkey are marking the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign. The battle was fought between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire between 25th April 1915 and 9th January 1916. The Queen took part in a two-minute silence before laying a wreath at the...

The greatest kitchen gadget/beer fetcher on the planet: We should be encouraging more of this and less of the useless gadgets.

Those most Yank picture in the world.

Freshly-picked asparagus will be driven on a 60-mile journey from Worcestershire to Leicestershire to mark the 750th anniversary of the death of one of the founders of parliamentary democracy, which takes place in August. De Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, helped set up the first English...

No, not George Michael and Elton John, but some real, actual, queens. Thanks to some much-married monarchs, England has had many more queens than kings. Whether a king’s wife or a ruler in her own right, each made a significant contribution to English history. But who were the best? Here...

Next month, Labour leader Edward Miliband will very, very likely become Britain's first Jewish Prime Minister since Benjamin Disraeli. Miliband's mother was a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust and his father was a Belgian Jewish Marxist academic who fled to Britain with his father during...

Richard Littlejohn brings back his stereotypical Yank news reporters Brit Limey and Chad Hanging and imagines how they would report the upcoming UK General Election on American TV news.... So this is how the Brits run an election? Holy cock-a-leekie! RICHARD LITTLEJOHN imagines an American view...

Today is the Queen's 89th birthday, which she is to celebrate privately at home at Windsor Castle. Her Majesty, who has been staying at the castle for the past month, has no official engagements listed. In her honour, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery will stage a 41-gun royal salute...

The SNP and their foul-mouthed , thuggish supporters took part in a sinister campaign of abuse and intimidation in the run up to last September's Scottish independence referendum, both online and on the streets, but still failed to...... persuade...... the Scottish people to vote for...

From underground Roman streets and molly houses to plague pits and long-shut tube stations, the forgotten landmarks and traditions of our nation’s mighty capital are charted in a new book written by filmmaker Richard Guard... 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of London...

Anna Whitelock reveals how celebrations marking the anniversary of Elizabeth I's accession became critical, not simply for spectacle and festivity, but for security and defence. Elizabeth I: how she used parties in her honour as a weapon against the Catholic threat to her throne...

Another sign of the times..... A Liverpool supporter at Anfield at a recent match was surprised to find a couple of Muslims praying in a stairwell inside the ground during the team's FA Cup Quarter Final match against Blackburn Rovers in March. The extraordinary scene was captured on a mobile...

Funny how little we have heard from British liberals about a rather nasty outbreak of anti-immigrant violence this week. Black South Africans burst on to the streets of Durban and Johannesburg, savagely attacking and threatening black immigrants from other parts of Africa. Whatever this...

A green-skinned figure in a medieval manuscript may look very familiar to Star Wars fans. The ink illustration appears to show the Jedi knight Yoda on the pages of a religious document. But in fact, the drawing is part of a bizarre representation of the Biblical story of Samson, one expert...

Ukip's war on the arrogant, out-of-touch, left-wing, liberal, metropolitan elite which runs Britain (into the ground) continued during the second leaders' debate of the election campaign last night. Whilst it is well-known that the BBC packs its audiences on its political debate show Question...

In 1741, with the War of Jenkins' Ear raging between Britain and Spain, Royal Navy sixth-rate HMS Wager was wrecked on the south coast of Chile. But the wreck became famous for the subsequent adventures of the survivors who found themselves marooned on a desolate island in the middle of a...