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The events of the last week may have shaken any faith that people may have had in journalistic standards in Britain.

The murder of Julia Martha Thomas has been solved as the head of the lady, murdered my Katie Webster in 1879 was found in a Richmond garden owned by David Attenborough

News of the World target families of 7/7 victims in latest phone hacking allegation

On Monday evening, it was alleged that the News of the World had hacked the phone of Milly Dowler just days after the teenager went missing near her home in Walton on Thames in 2002. As Tuesday passed, it was clear that the public was both outraged and shocked by the allegations.

The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to examine the source and antiquity of the treasure unearthed from the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram.

Queen ‘needs more money to maintain’ royal image

Former Conservative Chancelleor Nigel Lawson is said to have declared that the National Health Service is the closest thing the British have to a religion, a statement which seems to be proved truer by the day by the Trades Union Congress.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit one of Canada's most remote and unpopulated regions today as they continue their tour of the Commonwealth country.

A court-ordered search of vaults beneath a south Indian temple has unearthed gold, jewels and statues worth an estimated $22 billion, government officials said Monday.

The News of the World has been accused of hacking murdered school girl Milly Dowler's phone, just days after Dowler had been kidnapped it has been alledged.

The ongoing News of the World (NotW) phone hacking story took a new turn today after a report in the Guardian claimed that (NotW) staff hacked into the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.

Celebrating freedom has helped Americans understand the pride and importance of the liberation we hold. However, has America lost its way with the decline in both what people believe America now stands for and the declivity of patriotism from younger Americans.

As The United States of America celebrates Independence Day an important question has been raised by many historians across the world. Do Americans actually understand their own history? Are schools in America teaching their children the right events or are politician's confusing youngsters with their constant mistakes over how and why the United States gained its independence from Great Britain. Studies are constantly showing that American's are unaware of what they are actually celeb...

Mounting scientific evidence is increasingly against the theory that mobile phone use causes brain tumours, according to a comprehensive analysis from an independent international expert panel.

People are already flooding onto the lawn of Parliament Hill in anticipation of what is expected to be one of the largest Canada Day crowds ever in an attempt to catch a glimpse of the royal couple.

Google could be sued for scooping up data from open wi-fi networks after a US court ruling.

A tiny insect that plays love songs with its penis is the loudest animal on Earth.

Experts at Southampton University have drawn up a league table of countries most likely to suffer severe loss of life or catastrophic damage, should a large asteroid hit Earth.

Eight hundred and seventy people were hurt earlier this week when a planned memorial for people killed in Egypt's revolution turned into an angry demonstration against the country's interim military government, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights said Thursday.

The on and off relationship of Alex Louden and Pippa Middleton looks back on after the pair were spotted yesterday at Wimbledon arriving hand in hand. The couple witnessed one of the most dramatic days of this year's championships as Roger Federer collapsed from two sets up to throw a semi-final place away to twelfth seed Jo-Wilfred Tsonga. The couple stayed after the epic encounter and were clearly in good spirits as they watched Andy Murray cruise into the semi-finals.

A video, which was posted on the popular social networking site Youtube, and said to have been recorded on Friday, 24 June near the BBC Radio One building sent the web into frenzy. The film, shows bright disc-shaped objects dashing through the blue skies over central London, and the network users insisted the video showed not just any UFOS, but 'a mothership and its fleet'.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will arrive in Canada tomorrow to begin their first tour since their wedding in the spring. The couple will begin in Ottawa where republican feeling is stronger than in most areas of the country and end in Calgary where they will leave for the U.S. The tour is designed to celebrate the birthday of Canada as well as bring together the monarchy and Canada, a relationship that Britain is taking ever more seriously.

Michele Bachmann, who, on Tuesday launched a bid for the 2012 presidential elections, has often been compared to Sarah Palin. Both women are Republicans and both come from the North, both hold deeply conservative values close to their heart and just like Palin a few years ago, Bachmann is not scared to impose herself on the political scene and become, despite a lack of political experience, a serious contender.

Israel sent a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad in recent days, warning him that if he started a war with the Jewish state in order to divert attention from domestic problems, Israel will target him personally, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Tuesday.

Brooks Newmark, the Conservative MP for Braintree and a government whip, held talks on Monday with the controversial Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad, whose brutal repression of protests has been condemned by the UK. As the press and activists were outraged by the MP's meeting with Assad, the Foreign Office has insisted that Newmark's trip does not have government backing.

Beijing tax authorities are seeking more than £1m in unpaid taxes and fines from the outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who was released last week after nearly three months in detention, one of his close friends has said.

A mother of five from Iowa has emerged as one of the front-runners in the Republican race to take on Barack Obama in next year's US presidential election. So could Michele Bachmann end up in the White House, or is she just a new and more polished version of Sarah Palin?

Humanity will encounter alien civilizations within the next two decades, a top Russian astronomer predicted on Monday.

Officials from Brazil's Indian affairs agency, FUNAI, have confirmed the existence of more than two dozen 'uncontacted' tribes within previously unknown indigenous group in the rugged folds of the western Amazon.