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An 89-year-old veteran who went missing from his care home in Hove, England was found in Ouistreham, Normandy, after escaping to join his former comrades at the D-Day commemorations. The Telegraph reports that Bernard Jordan was originally told by his

Animal rights activists are campaigning to get Metallica banned from headlining this year’s Glastonbury festival because the singer James Hetfield supports bear hunting and is a member of the National Rifle Association.  The festival, in Pilton, Somerset, is very probably the

Andrew Lansley, the Leader of the House of Commons, has had his path cleared for an appointment to the European Commission by the Conservatives comfortable by-election win in Newark. Before the by-election the stumbling block to his appointment had been

I’ve sometimes thought it a misnomer to refer to the veterans of World War II as the “Greatest Generation.” The reverence may be justified but I’m uncomfortable with the sly implication that those who took part were somehow possessed of

The founder of an Islamic private school who also heads ‘pro-Palestine’ group Interpal, has refused to condemn the stoning to death of adulterers during an interview on the BBC’s Newsnight programme. Asked repeatedly by presenter Jeremy Paxman over Sharia punishments,

A man dressed in a gorilla suit has been accidentally shot at a zoo in Tenerife. The 35 year old member of park staff was shot by a vet who had not been told that he was participating in a

Barack Obama has urged Scotland to remain a part of the United Kingdom, and also called for the UK to remain a part of the European Union, in an intervention that is likely to draw mixed responses within Britain. The

In response to the shooting on May 24 at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, the German interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, has said there will be closer cooperation between European Union states against fighters returning from Syria, after the suspected

Cigarette sales in Australia have increased since the introduction of plain packaging, according to the Australian. The increase has come from budget brands that are no longer identifiable as being cheaper due to their packaging. Total sales in the first

Jean-Claude Juncker, the frontrunner to take the top job at the European Commission, has been complaining about the amount of scrutiny he is now under by the British press. He has warned his supporters that they must be ready for

A man walked away from a crime scene wearing his wife’s clothing after murdering her in a so-called ‘honour killing’. Ahmed Al-Khatib was caught on CCTV wearing Rania Alayed’s clothes to give the impression that she was still alive. The

In a move that raises doubts whether some feminists understand their target, a bare-breasted female protestor attacked a statue of Vladimir Putin at a wax museum in Paris on Thursday, stabbing its face and straddling the flattened figure of the

British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said that the Conservative Party will not release plans around a negotiation with the European Union unless the Conservatives are voted back in to government next year. The announcement will prompt concerns that the

Madrid’s city council yesterday approved a proposal to name a square after former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The local Madrid Diario reports that the council approved the name ‘Plaza de Margaret Thatcher’ for a previously unnamed public space situated

Everyone is an expert on elections nowadays, myself included. With the proliferation of online media and blogs, we’ve all got a lot more time for our own opinions – which are of course all absolutely on the nose, factually accurate,

The controversial British MP George Galloway has claimed that he urged Syria’s tyrant president Bashar al Assad to go to the ballot box and stand for election in the war torn country. Galloway – who has previously praised Saddam Hussein’s

The unity government founded between the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas on Monday is hitting early snags, as brawls broke out in Gaza on Thursday over the payment of employees of the two groups, reports Israel National News. In

In the first four months of this year so many illegal immigrants crossed the Mediterranean  and entered one of the EU member states that the number is already close to the 2013 total and is likely to rise as summer

The European elections are over but the negotiations in Brussels continue as newly elected MEPs jostle for positions in the pan-European groupings. UKIP might have bagged the most votes in the UK but out in Europe they’re finding themselves rather

Telling children fairy tales and getting them to believe in Father Christmas is “pernicious” and could cause them hard, according to scientist Richard Dawkins. Speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival, the biologist claim it was “rather pernicious to instil in

A group of over fifty lecturers and professors has written to the Guardian newspaper in support of fracking and shale gas exploitation in the abundant Bowland Shale in North-East England. They argue: Globally high prices for commodities and recent innovations

Scientists have mapped the entire genome of sheep, paving the way to improve the health of the humble farm animal for better meat and wool. After eight years of work on the entire genetic makeup of the species, the researchers

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he expects Vladimir Putin to attend the G20 summit this year in Brisbane despite the Russian leader being banned from this week’s Group of Seven meeting. Russia was axed from the G7 meeting

Friday is the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings of Allied troops in Normandy, the largest amphibious invasion in history and a turning point in World War II. Here are some of the events planned around the United States and

Luxembourg’s former premier Jean-Claude Juncker has told European politicians he will not “get on my knees” before Britain in his bid to become European Commission chief, the Guardian reported Friday. Britain fiercely opposes Juncker’s possible appointment as president of the