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The World Wide Web celebrated its 20th birthday yesterday. Invented by the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, the World Wide Web was born on August 6, 1991, when Berners-Lee launched the first web page on the internet. Basic: Sir Tim Berners-Lee's first web site, launched on 6th...

Twenty-six police have have been injured - some seriously - in overnight riots that took place in North London. In scenes which looked like the devastation of the Blitz, buildings, police cars and buses were set ablaze in Tottenham. One building, which had stood since 1920 and survived the...

A crop circle depicting a Grey alien smoking a pipe has appeared in a field near Stonehenge. The bizarre 200ft design in Wiltshire - the crop circle capital of the world - has appeared near the 18th Century image of a white horse - one of several such white horse figures in Wiltshire, which...

A man who played an Ewok in Star Wars has walked free from court despite being convicted of indecently exposing himself to a teen girl on a train. Former panto star Nicholas Read has already received some measure of punishment however - a raft of cancellations by people no longer requiring...

British MPs could vote on whether to bring back the death penalty. Campaigners plan to use an online petition scheme launched by the Government to press their case. They want capital punishment - banned in Britain in 1965 - to be restored for those who kill kids or police officers. And...

Celebrations broke out across London today to mark exactly one year until the start of the 2012 London Olympics. The day saw the opening of the stunning, brand new Aquatics Centre at the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London. Britain's double Commonwealth diving gold medallist and London...

This photo records the moment a beautiful church in a quintessential English village appeared to receive a heavenly blessing. Amateur photographer, Ian Peters, 63, captured the moment that the 12th Century Holy Trinity Church in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire is caught in a rainbow beaming...

When a car owner failed to move their vehicle before Tarmacking work began, council workmen simply Tarmacked around it. People watched in disbelief as workers from Worcestershire County Council dug up 300ft of road and laid fresh Tarmac - but left a neat, rectangular island around one car in...

A woman has celebrated her divorce by asking her new partner to tattoo her ENTIRE body. Jacqui Moore, 41, from Oxford, Oxfordshire, has had 85 per cent of her flesh inked with a continuous black and grey 'full body-suit' tattoo, a process which has taken eight years. Just her left armpit...

Major stores in London's West End are experiencing a boom thanks to the French ban on burkas. West End stores like Selfridges are cashing in as Middle Eastern tourists from places such as United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia snub Paris to shop in London instead. According to the West End...

The Queen was left spooked on Friday by a headless mannequin which was wearing Kate's wedding dress. Kate was with her grandmother-in-law in the Buckingham Palace ballroom to view the dress which is part of an exhibition. The Queen warily approached the scene with Kate, then raised her voice...

At the start of the Battle of Agincourt of 1415, the English - led by King Henry V - were outnumbered six to one by the French. But at the end of the battle the French had been annihilated, suffering 10,000 fatalities. The English, meanwhile, had just 112 soldiers killed. Why, despite their...

Amazing colour images have emerged showing the destruction caused to London by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz of WWII. The images were released to mark the 70th anniversary of the launch of Winston Churchill's 'V for Victory' campaign on July 19, 1941. The genesis for the campaign began in...

A couple walking their dogs on a beach were shocked when they came across the body of a mysterious sea creature. Margaret and Nick Flippence made the incredible at Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, in eastern Scotland. Curled up by the foot of sand dunes was the 30ft-long body of the unidentified...

The Queen is turning green after deciding to power Windsor Castle using power generated by the River Thames. Underground cables will carry electricity directly to the Berkshire castle - the world's largest inhabited castle - from hydroelectric turbines at the river’s Romney Weir. And any...

Daleks - the most famous and evil foes of Doctor Who - were outside the Houses of Parliament and even crossed Westminster Bridge earlier today after invading Britain's capital. But there's really no need to panic as the Dalek "invasion" was a re-staging of a famous scene from a 1964 episode...

A new BBC drama, The Night Watch, tells of people's lives and loves during The Blitz of 1940/41. One of the characters includes Kay, a brave member of the wartime London Auxiliary Ambulance Service (LAAS). But apart from this new drama, the contributions of the brave women of the LAAS has...

Commuters and pedestrians passing through east London's Canning Town couldn't believe their eyes as they saw road markings, obviously done by someone who didn't concentrate in school, which read "SUS STOP" rather than "BUS STOP." Taxi driver Raj Ahmed, 26, who spotted the glaring error, told...

The British Sunday newspaper The News of the World - the biggest-selling newspaper of the English-speaking world - came to an end today after it was closed in the wake of phone hacking scandals. Today's edition of the newspaper, which was founded in 1843, is its last. More News of the Worlds...

Steve Jones always has a rubbish holiday - literally. This is because the former binman travels around Britain and Europe to watch dustcarts in action - and even offers to work with them temporarily for free! Steve, from Lake, Isle of Wight, became obsessed with the rubbish collecting...