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Terracotta eco-warrior: protester breaches security to put masks on 2,200-year-old statues 15th October 2007 Daily Mail China' Terracotta Army is currently visiting the British Museum in London An eco-protester breached security at the British Museum to put face masks on exhibits from...

With Guy Fawkes Night approaching in Britain (November 5th) it's appropriate to have a bonfire-related story Is this Pope John Paul II waving from beyond the grave? Vatican says yes 15th October 2007 Daily Mail This fiery figure in the flames is being hailed as the latest miracle of Pope...

Matt Dawson: England know how to win when it really matters 15th October 2007 Daily Mail World Cup Final ENGLAND VS SOUTH AFRICA Saturday, 8pm BST What a turnaround. England were almost out a few weeks ago but the win over France has convinced me their name is on the trophy. I just...

A new study finds that Italy has 6.9 deaths per 100,000 workers in the workplace. This compares with 3.0 per 100,000 workers in France and just 0.8 per 100,000 workers in Britain 'White deaths': Italy's secret shame By Stephanie Holmes BBC News Although Graziella Marota, from the...

In the dark days of the 1940s when Britain was under threat of being invaded for the first time since 1066, thousands of women of the Women's Land Army (WLA) - commonly known as the Land Girls - toiled on farms and in fields to replace the men who had gone off to war. In World War I the WLA...

Beautiful Kate Middleton, who may one day become Queen, has come under fire after going deer hunting on the Queen's Balmoral estate with her boyfriend Prince William. Kate Middleton - who may one day become Queen Catherine - has infuriated animal rights activists.... Deer hunter: Middleton...

Thousands of France and England fans crowded onto the the Champs Elysees last night to watch France VS England in the Rugby World Cup Semi Final on giant screens. The French, whose national suicide rate is 2.5 times that of England's, now have another excuse to commit suicide after England won...

World Champions England have beaten France in the Rugby World Cup Semi-Final and are now in the World Cup Final for the second successive time. England are now in the Final for a record-equalling third time (Australia the only other team to appear in three Finals). It's also the second time in...

Here are my best bands of all time. What does everyone else think are the best 5 bands of all time? 1) The Beatles The Beatles are, without doubt, the best band of all time. They are the best-selling musical act of all time in the United States and in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked The...

People, mainly Scots, complained to the BBC after the former editor of The Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie, made anti-Scottish comments saying that the Scots are now so Socialist they have to live on handouts given to them by the hardworking and productive people of England, mainly the South East of...

The leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, has got support from the Republican Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. With Prime Minister Gordon Brown seeming to distance himself from the Americans more than Blair did, it seems the Tory leader is now winning affection with...

Millions of people in both England and France are set to tune in tonight for the titanic clash between the two countries in the Semi-Final of the Rugby World Cup. England beat France 24-7 at the same stage in the last World Cup in 2003 and went on to beat Australia in the Final. And it's a...

What has Al Gore done for world peace? Damian Thompson 12/10/2007 The Telegraph So Al Gore is the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Admittedly, he has to share it with the United Nations’ climate change panel - but, even so, I think we need to declare an international smugness alert...

The Great War was a war of many "firsts" - it was the first war to use aircraft, the first war to use tanks and the first war to use aircraft carriers, the latter two both being used by the British first. It was also the first of two giant wars that devastated Europe. At the time, Britain was...

Horrified residents in London called police when explosions seemed to hit the giant Battersea Power Station on the edge of the Thames, probably fearing a terrorist attack. But it turned out that a scene from the new Batman movie was being filmed. Most, if not all, of the Batman movies were...

The Queen today opened a giant new war memorial in Alrewas, Staffordshire. It is a memorial for all British military personnel who have been killed since the Second World War. The memorial looks, from above, similar to Stonehenge. It has a giant obelisk which represents all British military...

Oxfordshire supergroup Radiohead were formed in 1986. On 7th October they released their seventh studio album - In Rainbows - as an MP3 download and is scheduled to be released on 3rd December as a "discbox" with a second CD of additional material. The band are to finalise a record deal sometime...

The most exclusive club in the world By ROBERT HARDMAN 10th October 2007 Daily Mail From Florence Nightingale to Margaret Thatcher, its 24 members are the greatest figures of their age. And today, the Queen will introduce her latest recruit... There will be no grand fanfare, no...

The English language came, of course, from England, descended from the Germanic language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons, the ancestors of the English people. Thanks to the British Empire the language is now spoken in many countries that were former British colonies, with Americans, Canadians...

The world record for the longest hangover has, inevitably considering how much alcohol we drink, gone to a British man. The man from Glasgow suffered a hangover lasting four weeks having drinking SIXTY pints (35 litres) in four days. Britain is the binge-drinking capital of the world...