Hundreds of Britons who received ‘metal-on-metal’ hip replacements from three makers are demanding millions of pounds in compensation from the manufacturers.

The day of the vote falls on the anniversary of the Battle of Plassey in 1757 when Clive of India’s victory ushered in over a century of greatness, writes JACOB REES-MOGG.

Acerbic critic Brian Sewell, who died last September aged 84, stated in the will that his body should be donated to medical science – and said that he didn’t want to have a funeral service at all.

Senior NHS manager Roy Dyke at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust has quit amid allegations that a massive fraud diverted hospital funds into upmarket private properties in Dubai.

Miss Heard, 30, was previously in a lesbian relationship with photographer Tasya Van Ree. Some reports even claimed the two women were secretly married.

The man is due in court after apparently supplying the Year 10 girls, one of whom is believed to be his girlfriend, with the baked goods at a high school in Toronto, Lake Macquarie, last week.

If you’re a fan of senior pranks, this dispatch from India will be right up your alley. The student body of an all-girls school is pulling the old “possessed-by-a-Hindu-goddess” prank, using funny voices then fainting. That never gets old! By the way, mark your calendars since we’re getting close to the 30th anniversary of the […]

Most of those interested in such things would agree that the legend of the kraken was likely based on sightings of the very real giant squid. Most would also agree that the proportions of these beasts reported by early sailors were greatly exaggerated. A new study suggests that maybe the old seafarers knew what they […]

Saw 4 glowing lights in a rectangular pattern hovering about 200′ above a car dealership at the intersection of US17 and County Rt 634 at 02:24 am on November 25,1993. Was returning home from Thanksgiving Day weekend in MD with my wife. We lived about 1.3 miles from this intersection. The lights hovered for about […]

Last night, 5/28 at about 9:30, I was sitting outside at my home in Chandler Arizona. I was facing south. An orange light appeared to ” be turned on” near the backside of south mountain right at the Estrella Stargate. There were about ten of them. They appeared one at a time, silently. They seemed […]