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Luis Figo would consider a bigger World Cup if he is elected to replace Sepp Blatter as Fifa president. Releasing his manifesto at Wembley Stadium, the legendary Portugal midfielder, who won the Champions League with Real Madrid in 2002 and the now defunct Cup Winners' Cup...

A fossil stored in a Doncaster museum for 30 years and thought to be a plaster copy has turned out to be a new species of ancient reptile. A young palaeontologist working with the University of Manchester found the fossil in 2008, in the collections of Doncaster Museum and Art...

Blink 182 - Aliens Exist (1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Yda38oRlEfM

Guitar band Suede are to be crowned as a Godlike Genius at the NME Awards 2015 With Austin, Texas in London. Suede, whom organisers have billed as "one of the most exciting guitar bands of all time", kick started the Brit-pop revolution of the 1990s and have had a ground breaking career...

From BBC News's brand spanking new website.... Engineers in the UK have found that limpets' teeth consist of the strongest biological material ever tested. Limpets use a tongue bristling with tiny teeth to scrape food off rocks and into their mouths, often swallowing particles of rock in the...

The funeral for Shakespeare's greatest villain is fast approaching. But did he really kill the princes in the Tower? How bad a guy was Richard III...

Krispy Kream (whoever they are) shouldn't have to "apologise". KKK stands for "Krispy Kream Klub." Krispy Kream, rather than "apologising" (it's the trendy fashion amongst the Lefties these days to force people or companies to "apologise for any offence cause" even though it's not a real...

London Mayor Boris Johnson says he intends to renounce his American citizenship to prove his "commitment to Britain". He told the Sunday Times that his citizenship was "an accident of birth that has left me with this thing. I've got to find a way of sorting it out". Johnson, who was born in...

The 11th Cricket World Cup, the world's biggest sporting event of the year, is set to start, with co-hosts Australia and New Zealand both playing on the first day. New Zealand's game against Sri Lanka gets the tournament of one-day matches under way at 22:00 GMT on Friday...

Australia may be about 10,000 miles from Europe on the opposite side of the planet but it is to compete at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. This year is the 50th Eurovision Song Contest and, to mark the occasion, the Antipodean nation has been invited to take part as a one-off. The...

Illegal digging on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland has been branded a worrying "heritage crime". Evidence of excavations have been found by National Trust staff at Steel Rigg and Peel Crags on the central section of the world heritage site. The damage, thought to be from...

On this day in 1975, Margaret Thatcher became the first female leader of the Conservative Party. Yesterday, with 85 days to go until the General Election on 7th May, the Labour Party unveiled their response. According to The Grauniad, “a bright pink minibus of female Labour MPs will tour...

A stone with unusual carvings that was sold as a garden ornament could contain a hidden message. Plucked from a garden in Leicester, the stone was purchased by an archaeologist who believes the intricate pattern was probably carved in Anglo Saxon times, over 1,000 years ago. James Balme...

Lincolnshire lad Guy Martin's two greatest loves in life are motorbikes and tea. The 33-year-old has competed in the Isle of Man TT, the world's most prestigious motorbike race and, in between speeding about on motorbikes, likes drinking copious amounts of his favourite beverage. So he can...

We all know that she was the second of Henry VIII's six wives (to be pedantic, he actually had only three wives, as three of his marriages were declared "null and void", which essentially declared that a true marriage never took place); that she was the mother of the future Queen Elizabeth I...

In this article, Prince Charles speaks of his fears for Christians who are being persecuted (by mainly Muslims) in the Middle East and that he is worried that there could come a time when there are no Christians left in the region, with their numbers dwindling dramatically as a result of...

A large crowd of Muslims today gathered near Downing Street in central London to take part in an anti-Charlie Hebdo march. The group couldn't get into Downing Street itself as it has been gated off to the public and manned with security since the height of the IRA threat in 1982, but they...

The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever New data shows that the “vanishing” of polar ice is not the result of runaway global warming...

Re: Climate scientist wins defamation case against right leaning National Post Maybe we should lay charges of defamation against most climate scientists.

Forget the silly events of last weekend: the commercials for laxatives and piles treatments; a crappy concert with a couple of crappy "singers"; and the odd bit of "sport" interrupting proceedings from time to time. Now's the time for PROPER sporting action. Last night the 2015 Rugby Union Six...