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SAS veteran Andy McNab (whose face cannot be shown) - famous for writing the book "Bravo Two Zero" - says that the British Army is still the best in the world, as it has been for a long time. No matter how much hi-tech equipment the average American soldier has (although McNab says that many...

Tutankhamun and his tomb were discovered in 1922 by British adventurers Howard Carter and Lord Caernarfon. Some time afterwards, Carter and Caernarfon and many of their friends and colleagues died, which to this day has been attributed to an Ancient Egyptian curse. The first of these...

Revealed: What IS the secret of Silbury Hill? By MICHAEL HANLON 3rd November 2007 Daily Mail Pagan burial site? Too boring. UFO landing pad? Too bonkers. So what IS the secret of Silbury Hill? Terry the Druid reveals all Ancient and mysterious: Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire in south west...

RUGBY LEAGUE Now that the Rugby Union World Cup has finished, it's time for teams in Rugby League, the other type of rugby, to prepare for the Rugby League World Cup in 2008. And Britain did that in style after thrashing New Zealand at the KC Stadium last night to win the 3-game Series...

The English Premier League has proven just how popular it is around the world after 1 billion people watched (London) Arsenal VS Manchester United. So many people watched a game which was only an early season league game so it makes you wonder how many billion will watch this season's FA Cup...

Britz is a new British drama on Channel 4 about two young British Muslims who are opposites - the sister becomes a terrorist - dreaming of becoming Britain's first female suicide bomber and targetting London's Canary Wharf - and the brother joins MI5 and investigates a terror cell...

After a survey finds that Britain has the most living geniuses....introducing the British Army tank that can make itself invisible thanks to James Bond (or even Star Trek) style technology. It should be difficult to fight against on a battlefield when it comes into service in the British Army...

POLITICALLY CORRECT BRITAIN A World War II victim was asked to tick a box on a survey to say whether he is heterosexual, gay, lesbian or bisexual. The survey was for........recycling of garden waste. War veteran of 91 told: Tick the box if you're a lesbian 31st October 2007 Daily Mail...

Political Correctness in Britain has hit a new low after the PC-obsessed Labour Government's favourite Left-Wing think-tank said that Christmas should be "downgraded" and people should do more to celebrate festivals of other faiths, such as Eid and Hannukah. The Tories have condemned this...

Britain, the country that started the Industrial Revolution becoming the first mechanised, industrialised and urbanised country on the planet, the country that spawned the world's biggest ever empire, the country that gave the world the computer, the lightbulb, the television, the train, the...

Britain's National Trust, which looks after the country's many historic buildings and monuments, has listed the Top 10 most haunted locations in Britain. Britain is often regarded as the most haunted country in the world, with more ghost sightings per square kilometre than any other country...

For those who don't know, there are two types of rugby - Rugby Union and Rugby League, each with slightly different rules and scoring systems. England have just reached the Final of the Rugby Union World Cup, losing in it to South Africa. Now, in Rugby League, the Great Britain team (unlike...

Jason Taylor, a star of the Miamia Dolphins (who are so bad, apparently, that they can be seen as the equivalent of Derby County, the "soccer" team at the bottom of the English Premier League although, unlike in English football which has NINETY proffesional teams, teams in the NFL cannot be...

The first ever NFL game outside of North America has started. It's between the Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants. The game is being played at the 90,000 capacity Wembley Stadium in London and is being played there to try and raise the profile of a sport in which hardly anybody outside of...

After the end of Empire, many expected Britain to go on an inexorable decline. But Britain is now one of few developed countries in which the population is still growing - and it's growing much faster than expected, due to a birth rate that is at its highest in decades and increased immigration...

Watch the weird video of a swing moving by itself in Argentina... Ghost haunts kids' playground Spectre-cal ... freaky swing moves alone See weird video here:http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article385529.ece By VIRGINIA WHEELER The Sun A ‘HAUNTED’ playground swing that...

Left-Wing intellectuals in Britain have got their knickers in a twist after a statue of David Lloyd George was unveiled in front of the Houses of Parliament today. Lloyd George, British Prime Minister between 1916 and 1922, was credited with ending World War I and was supposed to have said...

Britain's Royal Mail has unveiled a collection of James Bond stamps to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Fleming, which occurs next year. James Bond on Her Majesty's postal service 22/10/2007 The Telegraph James Bond has kept Britain safe from the world's villains...

Despite being 7,700 there already, more British soldiers are being sent to Afghanistan to fill in for the Canadians and Dutch who, despite the war being legal and part of NATO, may come home due to huge public pressure in both countries. Since 2001, 82 British and 71 Canadian soldiers have...

Children's camp TV characters By NICK FRANCIS The Sun HARRY Potter author J K Rowling has caused huge controversy by OUTING Hogwarts head Albus Dumbledore as GAY. In the top-selling books, the headmaster of fictional Hogwarts School was said to have fallen for a fellow wizard...