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Fresh from their tour of Australia, the King and Queen have arrived in neighbouring Samoa onboard an RAAF plane for their State Visit. Upon arriving in the small Pacific republic which gained its independence from New Zealand in 1962, the British Head of State and his Consort were welcomed by...

Donald Trump's campaign team has called for an investigation into what it claimed was "blatant foreign interference" in the election by Britain's ruling Labour Party. The complaint to the US Federal Electoral Commission claimed there had been "interference" in the "form of apparent illegal...

King Charles III joked about the "sands of time" and expressed his joy at being back in Australia as he addressed politicians. The monarch presented an hourglass - a "speech timer", he called it - to the parliament of New South Wales to mark the 200th anniversary of its upper house. The...

Troubling pictures from Liam Payne's trashed hotel room show white powder after balcony fall

He was a troubled young man despite - or maybe because of - being a member of the world's greatest boy band. Argentine police found his hotel room in disarray. It seems as though it was suicide.

One Direction singer Liam Payne has died in Argentina aged just 31. Britain's One Direction is one of the most successful boy bands of all time. It's been reported that Payne fell off a balcony in Argentina but it's not yet known if it was an accident or suicide.

And here's Professor Brian Cox performing on keyboards with D:Ream in 1993

Professor Brian Cox is back. The former keyboard player of Nineties pop group D:Ream is now one of the great scientists of our age and the Manchester University physicist is back with his latest TV series: "Solar System". Here's a snippet of the first episode which was shown on BBC One on...

Anglophile German who won Champions League in his debut season as Chelsea manager takes on England job Tuchel has previously admitted his love for English culture and English football and now he is to be paid £5 million a year to be the new England boss. England are paying him the richest...

Thomas Tuchel has agreed to become the new England manager. The 51-year-old German has previously managed Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and London club Chelsea - with whom he won the Champions League - and Sky News understands Tuchel has already signed the contract and that the English FA...

A new sonar image may be the proof that Britain's - and the world's - most famous cryptid Nessie actually exists. Loch Ness is the second largest lake - by volume - on the mainland UK, the second deepest lake in Scotland and it holds more water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined...

King Charles III and Queen Camilla are to visit Australia on Friday. The Australian King and Queen are to tour the vast country and a new poll shows that a quarter of Aussies have a more favourable view of their King than they did during his Coronation on 6th May 2023.

Oh, thank you. Her accent sounds weird even to me, because I'm in Manchester. We have lots of accents here. They sound a lot different just 10 miles away. But that's the thing: You can walk down the street and say a friendly hello to a complete stranger without realising they are a multiple...

Nero - "Promises" (2011) This song by the London dance band debuted at No1 in the UK. The song received a Gold certification in the US in 2012.

A woman who murdered her parents and then lived alongside their bodies for four years told police who arrested her: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.” Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with a “cocktail of prescription drugs” and fatally stabbed her...

Former leader of the Scottish National Party and Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has died aged 69. Salmond - who was behind the 2014 Scottish independence referendum which he and the SNP lost as the Scots voted against independence - died in North Macedonia yesterday just after making a...

In the dying embers of the British Empire Britain has ceded the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Unlike previous times where we've let a land become independent on this occasion we've just given it to another country. So we've given it up but it's not independence. It's now ruled by the Mauritians...

Talk Talk - "It's My Life" (1984) The London band had a hit with this in the year Brunei gained its independence from Britain; Britain's Zola Budd and America's Mary Decker controversially collide at the Olympics in Los Angeles; Prince Harry is born; and a serial sex offender known as The Fox...

Queen Camilla has visited the King Charles III Sacristy as it undergoes construction. The new building is being erected at Westminster Abbey, which has seen Coronations all the way from King William I on 25th December 1066 to King Charles III on 6th May 2023. The King Charles III Sacristy is...

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have visited the tiny Mediterranean nation of Malta to mark 60 years of independence. Malta gained its independence from Britain in 1964 and the King's brother and sister-in-law met Maltese President Myriam Debono and her husband in the capital Valletta. Malta...