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In the city of Palermo, in Sicily, Italy, lies one of Europe's most macabre tourist attractions. In the catacombs beneath the Capuchin monastery lie mummies up to 400 years old - but, many with flesh still intact and wearing their clothes, it looks like many of them have been dead just a few...

The new Royal Hospital in Derby, Derbyshire, is calling in an exorcist after sightings of a creepy spook. The figure, which wears a cloak, has been seen stalking the wards and corridors of the hospital. Many believe it may be the ghost of a Roman soldier as the hospital was, controversially...

One of the advantages of having a constitutional monarchy is that during times of crisis like the recession that Britain is currently experiencing, the monarch provides a neutral, NON-political focal point that the people can rally around instead of a probably much-maligned president or any...

The Royal Navy's newest warship, HMS Daring, arrived at her new home of Portsmouth for the first time ever today. HMS Daring is the first of six new Type 45 destroyers for the Royal Navy, the largest and most powerful air defence destroyers ever operated by the Royal Navy. She is the eighth...

Greater Manchester Police have released video footage of one of its officers being kicked and stamped on by Scottish football hooligans last year. The fans of Scottish team Glasgow Rangers rioted in the Piccadilly area of central Manchester after seeing their team lose 2-0 against Russian side...

London's Metropolitan Police, Britain's largest police force, has appointed its new commissioner. Sir Paul Stephenson takes over from Sir Ian Blair as Britain's top cop. Sir Ian Blair was mired in controversy, with his embarrassing politically correct views and his obvious support for the...

Angry families of IRA victims today confronted Irish Republicans in Belfast amid dramatic scenes. The families, who have lost relatives to IRA terrorists, confronted Irish Republicans today after it was announced that the relatives of IRA terrorists who were killed during the conflict may also...

A book discovered on a shelf in Staffordshire is an 18th-century guide to surgery before anaesthetic was invented.... Revealed: The 18th century guide to amputations, operations and other medical tips By Daily Mail Reporter 28th January 2009 Daily Mail A 300-year-old medical guide...

Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson doesn't know why everyone's getting so worked up about Barack Obama (the extraordinary celebrations after his inauguration, including the carnival and ten balls, were over-the-top, sickly sweet American razmatazz). After all, Obama is hardly the Messiah. Barack...

In 1807, Britain became the first country in the world to permanently abolish slavery. It was also banned in the British Empire by the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. After this time, Royal Navy ships regularly patrolled the Atlantic to stop American and French slave ships plying...

A cocky Colombian tourist visiting London got more than he bargained for when he dared to mock a Guardsman protecting St James's Palace. The tourist, who is a student at Oxford University, decided to copy the Guardsman's actions as he marched back and forth as his pal filmed it on his mobile...

The Royal Navy ship HMS Intrepid, a veteran of the 1982 Falklands War between Britain and Argentina when the British sent out a naval Task Force to retake the Falklands Islands from the Argentine invaders, is being broken up. Some important parts of the ship are to be kept as mementoes or sold...

The English Channel is the world's busiest shipping lane, so goods and wreckage from sunken ships washing up along Britain's south coast is not an uncommon occurrence. Now scavengers are heading to the beaches of Kent to collect timber that has washed up after a Russian cargo ship got into...

With the British economy in tatters thanks to economic mismanagement by Britain's SCOTTISH Prime Minister (Gordon Brown) and SCOTTISH Chancellor of the Exchequer (Alistair Darling), the English have a right to be angered by the "Scottish Mafia", according to the Scotsman Alan Massie, author of...

More evidence of the "Scottish Mafia" - the group of corrupt, out-of-touch Scotsmen, or those with a Scottish influence, that is slowly bringing Britain to its knees. Whilst Britain plunges into its first recession since 1991, Treasury staff working for Britain's Scottish Chancellor of the...

The Labour Party really needs to start thinking about who to succeed Gordon Brown, the current British Prime Minister, as their next leader and, therefore, a potential future Prime Minister. Several names have been bandied about by Labour, including the current Foreign Secretary David...

A metal-detecting enthusiast has found 824 gold Iceni coins in a field in Wickham Market, Suffolk. The Iceni were a British tribe who lived in the area now comprising the three counties of Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire in south east England. The Queen of the Iceni in the mid-1st...

Britain (except, maybe, Scotland which is populated by middle aged men who like beating up 22 year old women and 10 year old boys for being English) is the least racist country in Europe, according to Trevor Phillips, the head of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights. When it comes to...

America and Britain were not only RIGHT to go to war in Iraq (finishing off the interrupted war, which started in 1990) but history will also vindicate George W. Bush. After all, Saddam WAS trying to get WMD. Whether or not he had any mattered not. Should we have waited until a Western city was...

The Mau Mau Uprising from 1952 to 1960 was an attempt by the Kenyans to free themselves from British rule. In 1960, Kenya had been part of the British Empire for around 70 years. The core of the resistance was formed by members of the Kikuyu ethnic group, along with smaller numbers of Embu and...