Of the many forms of artistic expression that humanity has contrived for purposes of aesthetic fulfilment and popular entertainment, ballet ...

Nessie is a better-known Scot than Robert Burns or Sean Connery, according to a survey . More than 2,000 adults across the UK were asked to ...

A night worker at Madame Tussauds faces losing his job after posing for photos groping star waxworks. In one of the pictures Bryan Boniface...

Few soccer-bashers appreciate that hooliganism – with its bleakest hour at Heysel – was a brief moment of darkness in the 1980s, between dec...

Polly Toynbee in the Grauniad : If David Cameron takes up the Clark report, this would mark a breakthrough. Tories would stop pretending tha...

Jeeves disapproves...

An unusual clash between a 6-foot (1.8m) alligator and a 13-foot (3.9m) python has left two of the deadliest predators dead in Florida's...

Via Hey Skipper comes news of a book collecting the notoriously bizarre Lonely Hearts ads placed in the London Review of Books. Eschewing th...

Fortified by chips and steak and kidney pie (kidney content = trace) and a pint of organic Honeydew beer from The Old Fish Market we last n...

The Maltese and the Greeks are the heavyweights of Europe, figures from the European Commission reveal . The Italians and French the most tr...

Controversy has stalked Shoaib Akhtar throughout his international career, but his latest transgression could be the final straw. The first ...

The Dutch cabinet has backed a proposal by the country's immigration minister to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa in public plac...

…as AOG pointed out here . And even poetic. Here are my five favourites from the last few weeks: 5) sake – Thanks Placemats Turkey 4) Les Vi...

In 1984 John Barnes scored this goal for England against Brazil in the Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro. It is fondly remembered as one of t...

Andrew Graham-Dixon (I’ve always liked him, partly because he’s a good art critic but mainly because his full name differs from mine only by...

A campaign is being launched to raise awareness of the crippling impact of toilet phobia. The National Phobics Society estimates at least f...