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The New Zealand rugby union team, nicknamed "the All Blacks" because of the colour of their kits, have had the mickey taken out of them by the Australians ahead of the tri-nation series involving New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. A digitally enhanced photo produced by the Aussies shows...

Nazi demons laid to rest in World Cup stadium By CHRISTOPHER HUDSON, Daily Mail 6th July 2006 The 2006 World Cup Final is being held in the place where the 1936 Olympics took place, known as the "Nazi Olympics." The France football team will play in the stadium where their Olympics team...

The Times July 06, 2006 Twelve tuk-tuks imported from India will operate in Brighton. Similiar services are planned for Central London and other cities. Photo: Gil Allen Hold on for dear life . . . the tuk-tuk has arrived By Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent LIKE many...

Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that Britain needs its own national football team which will compete in the 2012 London Olympics. There is no Britain football team - there is just England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which means that Britain must be the only country in the world...

Round-the-Clock News, With a British Accent By STUART ELLIOTT Published: June 1, 2006 THE British are coming again, this time not clad in red coats or sporting Beatle haircuts but bearing cameras, microphones and notebooks. A BBC World News interactive billboard in Midtown...

Fed-up worker sends boss tarantula in the post 5th July 2006 Mahlon Hector, above, and a tarantula, similar to the one he sent his boss A disgruntled worker who sent a live venomous spider in a package to a colleague at work today escaped being sent to jail. Mahlon Hector sent the...

British deaths in Afghanistan are starting to mount up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- British soldier killed in southern Afghanistan Declan Walsh in Camp Bastion Wednesday July 5, 2006 The Guardian A British soldier was killed today in a Taliban...

England to play in World Cup final...ok, it's just the one Englishman 5th July 2006 Perrotta in action against Germany. He was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester. Unfortunately, he didn't stay in England and play for the England national team. There will be no three lions on...

A laughing maniac dived in through an open window, left open because of the heat-wave, and started to eat an old man alive. ----------------------------------------------------------- Charge in 'cannibal' case By ANDREW PARKER Hereford, Herefordshire A man has been charged with...

Neo-Nazis hijack gala to burn Anne Frank diary 4th July 2006 BBC comedy The Office. German neo-Nazis tore up and burned a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank after hijacking a traditional gala. Around 100 skinheads cheered and shouted Sieg Heil as the most poignant memoir of the Holocaust...

Help animals. Don't club them. The Times July 05, 2006 Sea defences sacrificed for a wildlife sanctuary By Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter Essex FLOOD defences were torn down yesterday to allow the North Sea to swallow a chunk of the Essex coast and create the biggest man-made...

The heatwave and the drought continue and it's another absolutely scorching hot day today. I can't stand this terrible heat any longer. Luckily, there's rain on its way. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After the drought, here's the deluge By...

Sharapova hides her blushes as streaker hits Centre Court 4th July 2006 The cheek of it: Sharapova's match is interrupted by the streaker A streaker interrupted play by doing a cartwheel on Centre Court at Wimbledon today during the quarter-final match between Russian beauties Maria...

UK Support for the London 2012 Games Continues to Grow London 2012, 4 July 2006 The world's best stadium will be completed in 2011 One year on and support for the Games is higher than ever, according to Sports Marketing Surveys, the company that conducted research immediately after...

Camp "Little Britain" star David Walliams has sucessfully swum the English Channel today from Dover to Cap Gris-Nez, near Calais, France and is raising money for the Sport Relief charity. His achievement is remarkable because only 10% of those who have attempted to swim the Channel have...

The Times July 04, 2006 Afghanistan The story of two Britons who died fighting common enemy By Mike Evans Both soldiers were killed in a Taleban attack but one was a Muslim equally proud of being British and his Islamic background A BRITISH soldier killed in Afghanistan on Saturday was...

A woman from Newcastle suffered a stroke and then later discovered that her Geordie accent had disappeared and had been replaced with a Jamaican accent. The Times July 04, 2006 Geordie stroke victim left sounding like Jamaican By Russell Jenkins RESEARCHERS are hoping that a woman who...

Jeff Powell says good riddance to money-grabbing Sven Goran Eriksson, the most useless England coach in history. Good riddance to the game's golden fleecer By JEFF POWELL, Daily Mail 3rd July 2006 Beckham cries after he is carried off with injury against Portugal knowing his captaincy...

The Times Britain still outpaces its European rivals. BRITAIN has topped the European league table for wealth creation, with its leading companies generating more value and doing so more efficiently than their continental rivals, a study shows today. A report from the Department of Trade...

Jumpers risk life and limb for latest craze: Tombstoning By Cahal Milmo 01 July 2006 Even its advocates admit you need to be brave, bordering on psychotic to attempt it. Safety experts claim it's like jumping off a skyscraper onto a wet flannel. Despite - or probably because of -the...