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The world's first aircraft carrier, which was found rusting on the banks of the Thames in 1996, has been restored - and it shows how far we have come in aircraft carrier technology in the last 100 years. The craft is the only surviving example of a seaplane lighter and it was salvaged by...

New Zealand actor Russel Crowe has met the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, at the Archbishop's residence Lambeth Palace in London. Mr Crowe is playing the title role in biblical drama Noah, which is currently topping the US Box Office. His visit to the principal, earthly leader...

Two of the world's great figureheads met today in the world's smallest country. Queen Elizabeth II, the Supreme Governor (not the leader, because Jesus Christ is the leader) of the 27-million-strong Church of England and the Head of State of 134 million people met Pope Francis, the leader of...

Five blocks are flats in Glasgow are to be demolished - as part of the Opening Ceremony for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Six Red Road flats - which have dominated part of the city's skyline for 50 years - are remaining and five of them will be demolished in the biggest demolition of...

A pair of white storks nesting in Norfolk could be the first in the UK to breed from a traditional nest for nearly 600 years. The birds are nesting on an 18th century chimney of former stately home Thrigby Hall at Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens near Great Yarmouth and are involved in...

According to a well-known historian, Henry VIII didn't have six wives - he had seven. In an article published anonymously in the journal Tudor Matrimonial Studies, a historian has revealed that the former king married Anne Mourgan in 1538 – less than a year after the death of his third wife...

People across England are being warned to avoid strenuous activity due to smog consisting of sand from the Sahara and local and European emissions. Much of southern and central England has been coated with a layer of Saharan dust, whilst visibility is low due to the smog. The elderly and those...

Could this be a what we see in our cities later this century? Londoners Christopher Christophi and Lucas Mazarrasa have come up with the concept of vertical railway stations. The idea is to rid big cities like London and New York of their huge, cathedral-like railway stations and free up...

With a Taliban fighter looming in his sights half a mile away, the British sniper knew a clean shot would take down his enemy. What he could not have known was that the single bullet he fired would account for five more insurgents. But, incredibly, his rifle round triggered the explosive...

Last week, during a live televised debate on the EU between anti-EU UKIP leader Nigel Farage and pro-EU Liberal Democrats leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Farage accused the EU of having ‘blood on its hands’ for provoking Russia over Ukraine. He said EU leaders had been ‘weak and...

A fearless British secret agent in occupied France, a drunken poet and the man who dreamed up Desert Island Discs. At first glance, they may not have had much in common, but the ten men and women commemorated in a new set of Royal Mail stamps would all have celebrated their 100th...

Startled tribal men in a remote part of the Amazon basin in Brazil shake their spears as they are pictured from above. The pictures, shot from a plane earlier this week, were taken of the isolated tribe on the Peruvian border. It is thought the tribe have had little to no contact with the...

Black Sabbath are to play at this year's British Summer Time (BST) festival in London's Hyde Park. The Birmingham downer rock band, who invented heavy metal, are to play the opening night of the festival - which has been nicknamed Black Sabbath Time (BST) - on July 4th. Vocalist/harmonica...

It's bright and sunny, blue skies and warm here in Bolton today. Nick Clegg calls it Global Warming. I call it spring.

A giant sandpit has been built in Stevenage, Hertfordshire (30 miles north of central London), to mimic the surface of Mars. The indoor terrain, about the size of a basketball court, will be used to test systems on the rover that Europe and Russia will send to the Red Planet in 2018. It...

This is one of the best sporting fights I've seen for a while. Aussie Rules footballers decided to knock ten bells out of each other during a match between Cranbourne and Berwick in Melbourne. Epic Aussie rules footy fight - YouTube

A new photographic portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their son Prince George and their dog Lupo has been released ahead of the family's tour of Australia and New Zealand. The eight-month-old future king, Prince George, is pictured in his mother's arms. Whilst the two parents...

I WAS surprised. I thought he'd be a Yank before I found out he wasn't. It's just like something a Yank would do.

I was surprised when I found out he isn't American.

The scandal of MPs enjoying extravagant expenses might seem like an indictment of the modern politician. But the identity of the very first commoners sent to Parliament can be revealed by the new book Parliament: A Biography by Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for the Rhondda, only because they too...