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Barack Obama has spoken. The part-time leader of the free world has offered Britain some friendly words of advice in the pages of the Daily Telegraph: stay in the EU for your good and the good of the whole world. He makes the standard case that the EU is great for business and security, but...

If Leicester City win the Premier League, it will be one of the most captivating British sport stories in years. But how does a football-mad Englishman living in the US explain its importance to Americans? Explaining the Leicester City story to Americans By Tom...

The original classroom where William Shakespeare is believed to have studied and seen his first plays opens to the public for the first time this weekend. The classroom is owned by King Edward VI School, the direct successor to the grammar school in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire...

As President Obama touches down in Britain today, he need have no fear that Air Force One will be hit by a stray drone, as happened last Sunday to a British Airways aircraft over London. In order to ensure the safety of the President, the UK's National Air Traffic Service has placed a...

If Britain were to leave the European Union, would it survive? Britain is one of the least enthusiastic members of the EU, but other more globally-minded countries are tiring of the protectionism and insularity in Brussels. Reformers in Sweden are aghast at the prospect of Brexit, seeing...

The flame for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro has been lit in southern Greece. An actor performing the role of high priestess lit the torch by using the sun's rays. The torch will be taken by various runners on an international relay that will culminate at the opening ceremony at the...

Celebrations have begun around the country to mark the Queen's 90th birthday. Crowds lined the streets in Windsor as the monarch took part in a walkabout, after royal gun salutes were fired from each of the UK's capital cities. The Prince of Wales recorded a special radio broadcast for...

Comedian Victoria Wood has died aged 62 after "a short but brave" battle with cancer. "The multi Bafta award-winning writer, director, actor and comedian died peacefully at her north London home with family this morning," her publicist Neil Reading said. "The family ask for privacy at this...

Banknotes are changing - with the look and feel of the cash in our pockets going through significant changes in the coming years. Yet, this is still simply the latest development in the way money has been made over many centuries. Ben Alsop, curator of the Citi Money Gallery at the...

It may seem a peculiarly 21st Century preoccupation, but people in Shakespeare's England were also obsessed with food, writes Dr Joan Fitzpatrick. Shakespeare: The strange way people looked at food in the 16th Century Dr Joan Fitzpatrick BBC News Magazine 20 April 2016 It may seem a...

A new portrait has been released of four generations of the Royal Family on the eve of Her Majesty's 90th birthday. The portrait, which was taken in the White Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace in the summer of 2015, shows Queen Elizabeth II with her three immediate heirs - her son Prince...

The third volume in Terry Deary's witty history series for adults, Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England explodes the myths that he believes permeate our understanding of the age of ‘Good Queen Bess’. Here, writing for History Extra, Deary reveals 10 of the gravest dangers faced by...

Salisbury Plain may be best known for Stonehenge, but the chalk plateau hides other secrets too. Archaeologists have unearthed an Anglo Saxon cemetery of about 150 graves holding beautiful grave goods, including an intricate comb, jewellery, a 'sewing box' and intriguing shells in the...

Richard Littlejohn on the big stories of the last few days: the EU referendum (of course); black soldiers getting frostbite; novels and TV shows getting PC makeovers; Walker's liquorice toffee; and Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Richard III. Why I'd rather live under Labour than stay in...

Sadiq khan, the Labour MP for Tooting, is the favourite to succeed Boris Johnson as Mayor of London on 5th May. However, recent stories about his dealings with Islamic extremists have raised doubts about his suitability as mayor... With friends like this, is Sadiq Khan fit to run London...

He was the 15th century king who stole the throne of England, is blamed for the disappearance of his nephews and was left languishing under a car park in Leicester for hundreds of years. Now Richard III's remains have been turned into modern art. A series of portraits based on X-ray images...

No EU referendum story has offered quite so much pleasure as this one, which I trust will provide you with the same 10 minutes of helpless hilarity that it gave me. The Britain Stronger in Europe campaign (now known as BSE, previously the name for the human form of mad cow disease)...

An "elaborate" Roman villa has been unearthed by chance by a homeowner laying electric cables in his garden in Wiltshire. It was discovered by rug designer Luke Irwin as he was carrying out some work at his farmhouse so that his children could play table tennis in an old barn. He...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have sat together on the bench at the Taj Mahal in India where Diana, Princess of Wales, was pictured 24 years ago. Prince William and Catherine posed at the mausoleum in Agra yesterday on the final day of their tour of India and Bhutan. William's mother...

The Eurovision Song Contest is a magnet for weird and wonderful acts, from the fabulous to the frightening. But few can be stranger than the latest entry - Ivan, the 'rock star' from Belarus who sings naked surrounded by a pack of wild wolves. The 21-year-old, who begins his song with a...