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The Dutch have this weekend been celebrating their first ever King's Day. Our next door neighbours have clad themselves in orange - the national colours of the Netherlands - to honour King Willem Alexander, who became king on 30th April last year after his mother, Queen Beatrice, abdicated...

Five British service personnel have been killed after their helicopter crashed yesterday in southern Afghanistan. Three of the servicemen, from the Army Air Corps, and an airman, from the Royal Air Force, were stationed at RAF Odiham, in Hampshire, the Ministry of Defence said. The fifth...

The visits of sports teams to Nazi Germany in the 1930s still generate controversy today, from the Berlin Olympics' anti-Semitism to the England football team's Nazi salute in 1938. But a new book tells the story of a cricket team from Worcestershire which, founded in 1848, predated...

BREAKING NEWS Camilla's brother and Prince Charles's brother-in-law Mark Shand is critical in hospital on life support after falling and smashing his head outside a New York club. BREAKING NEWS: Duchess of Cornwall's brother, 62, fighting for life after smashing head in fall outside New York...

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has promised there will be a political earthquake if his anti-EU, anti-immigration party win next month's EU elections - and they are the favourites to do so. Launching UKIP's campaign, he argued his policies on immigration and the EU were "straightforward" and...

When Paul and Nicola Walling decided to add an extension to their home, the couple came across a macabre discovery in their garden. In the ground a builder discovered around 40 bones in the soil and, when he guessed they were human bones, called the police. Experts now believe the bones are...

Daniel Hannan, the eurosceptic Conservative MEP for South East England, has hit back at United Nations Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo, over her claims of a sexist culture in Britain... DANIEL HANNAN: Corrupt and incompetent, the UN has no right to lecture us UN's Rashida Manjoo has...

The Royal Navy has today revealed its 3D radar system which can track missiles - before knocking them out of the sky. The cutting-edge system, called Artisan, will make it almost impossible for an enemy missile to hit a Royal Navy ship and was tested by 180 sailors onboard Type 23 frigate HMS...

Archaeologists in the city of Leicester, Leicestershire have discovered the 2,000-year-old paw prints of a dog pressed into a tile of a Corieltauvi townhouse. A number of other prints, including those of sheep and goats, were also discovered. The Corieltauvi were a British tribe of people who...

On the weekend in which English football has marked the 25th anniversary of Hillsborough, Liverpool took a giant step towards becoming English champions for the first time since 1990. A tearful Steven Gerrard gave an impassioned speech to his Liverpool team-mates after they moved into pole...

The Duke of Cambridge seemed to let it slip that his wife may be pregnant again. In an unguarded comment on a walkabout in the small New Zealand town of Cambridge, William dropped the biggest hint yet that he and Kate plan to extend their family. On day six of their tour, they braved drizzly...

David Cameron speaks of the "peace" and "guidance" he finds in his Christian faith David Cameron has spoken of the "peace" and "guidance" he finds in his Christian faith. In a rare comment on his own religious beliefs, the prime minister stressed the importance of teaching children about the...

A skeleton found in Racton, West Sussex, in the 1980s could be that of a Bronze Age king. Racton Man is one of just a handful of skeletons to have been found with a dagger, suggesting he could have been an important person such as a priest or a king. Now researchers hope that scientific...

Mysterious carvings which have lain in the bleak, windswept Northumberland countryside for 6,000 years have been given protective status. The rock art, older than the Pyramids of Egypt, has kept archaeologists guessing for centuries. According to English Heritage, more than 5,000 separate...

Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled a robot that can run, sit and even mimic the movement of a soldier. Costing over £1 million and using F1 technology, Porton Man will test protective suits and equipment. Porton Man has more than 100 sensors over its body to record data during...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence than Offa's Dyke is 200 years older than previously thought. Samples from Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust excavations on a stretch of the dyke have been radiocarbon dated to the second half of the 6th Century. Historians have always associated the dyke...

This is the dramatic moment a Queen's Guard raised his bayonet at a would-be intruder. Tosin Odunaiya, a Nigerian who is in Britain illegally, had been ranting at the royal protection officers for five minutes before a Guard strode 50 yards over to him and challenged Odunaiya with his bayonet...

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has said that militant atheists should "get over it" and accept that the UK is a Christian nation Pickles hit out at opponents of religion who try and “impose” their “politically correct intolerance”. Mr Pickles in 2012 changed the law to ensure that...

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, has opened to the public for the first time since it hosted the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. Alongside venues for sport and the arts, London's newest park features interactive water fountains and an adventure playground...

The first ever state visit to the UK by an Irish head of state starts on Tuesday. Michael D Higgins, the ninth president of what is now the Republic of Ireland since it seceded from the UK in 1922, will address both Houses of Parliament, another first for an Irish head of state. Mr Higgins...