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Britain appears to have victory over Germany in the diplomatic war between the two nations after it secured a unanimous deal on a Europe-wide economic rescue package. Certain members of Germany's ruling coalition have criticised British Prime Minister's recent economic policy. Brown claims...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited British soldiers in Afghanistan - much to the anger of Winston Churchill's grandson. The PM visited the troops just hours after four British soldiers were killed in the area. Brown did better than his enemy Tony Blair, who never left the safety of a...

The England cricket team were in India preparing for this Test Series against India at the time of the Mumbai attacks. The attacks caused England to fly back home, in two minds as to whether or not to continue with the Series. To their credit, they blew a raspberry in the face of terrorism by...

Hallowe'en is an event which started in Britain millennia ago, when it was called Samhain. The ancient Britons believed that on October 31 the boundary between the living and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged...

Prince William looked a bit like his great-great-grandfather King George V yesterday, sporting a beard during a pheasant shoot at Sandringham, Norfolk. The future King was joined on the shoot by his brother Prince Harry, his girlfriend Kate Middleton and a mystery blonde.... Kate aims high...

I don't know what most Americans will think about it (but the British will think it's great), but the father of the man who is about the become the new US President was born in the British Empire. Obama's father was Kenyan, and he was born in Kenya whilst it was a part of the British Empire...

Of the 27 EU states, 15 (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain) use the Euro and 12 (Britain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia...

If you were a kid in the Fifties and Sixties, the chances are you would have watched TV shows such as Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor The Engine and Noggin the Nog. All these were the creations of British animator, writer and puppeteer Oliver Postgate, who died on Monday aged 83. There was none...

The quiz show, "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?", started in Britain in 1998. It has since been exported to many countries around the world, and has recently arrived in Afghanistan. The Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn (who should be Prime Minister) imagines what an episode of Afghanistan's...

The British island of Sark was, until today, the last feudal state in the Western world. Today its first democratic election is taking place. The island lies between Britain and France in the English Channel and, despite lying off the coast of Normandy, is a British Crown Dependency and has...

Squatters couldn't believe their luck when they discovered the glorious Fife House, in Brighton, East Sussex. This building, dating from the English Regency period (1795-1837, a period In English history noted for its distinctive literature, fashions, architecture, politics and aristocratic...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown embarrassed himself in the Commons today during Prime Minister's Questions, the half-hour session that takes place each Wednesday when MPs of all parties are able to ask questions to the Prime Minister that is broadcast live on TV. When asked about his...

Woodes Rogers, of the Royal Navy, was not your average sea captain. This man was a pirate hunter, who was funded by British businessmen to attack rich vessels from any country, except Britain, and seize their booty. He was also responsible for capturing the British pirate Blackbeard, the...

Thanks to a thick, corrupt, Left-Wing Scotsman (the Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin) who has no care of British democracy, history and traditions, British democracy was trampled on by his letting the police into the Commons a couple of weeks ago to search Shadow Immigration...

The Americans and Russians have launched things such as dogs, monkeys, flies and even humans into space during the very early years of space exploration. But the quirky British are not having any of that nonsense. We have launched a couple of teddy bears up into space, and Britain has become...

One of London's Trafalgar Square lions, which has been there since 1867, has been brought to life thanks to digital animation and projections. Tourists and Londoners will be able to see and hear the lion speak to them, telling them about upcoming attractions in the capital over Christmas and...

Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, says that the Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe should be toppled just like Saddam was. Sentamu knows all about dictators - he fled to Britain from Uganda in the 1970s to escape Idi Amin. The Archbishop of York is the is the third-highest rank in the...

Today was perhaps the one day of the year the Queen acts in a way that you always think of queens as acting - sitting on a throne with a crown on her head. It is one of the days in which the British do what they do best - grand pomp and ceremony with lavish costumes involving people with...

Further evidence that the British military is the only worthwile, proper, significant military in the EU. Just 65 years or so ago, very recent history, the German Army rampaged across Europe, invading as many lands as possible to incorporate into their empire, the Reich, exterminating millions...

Between 1899 and 1902, the Second Boer War raged between the Orange Free State and their Transvaal Republic allies and the mightiest power on Earth - Britain. The British - along with soldiers from Canada, Australia and New Zealand - won the war after losing around 20,000 men. A photo taken...