Britain's Scrabble world champion has set himself a tricky new challenge – to have the board game reclassified as a sport.
Workers were laying power cables at a farm when the owner discovered a villa along with mosaics, coins and brooches.
A YouTuber who boarded a cable car in Greenwich caught movement in the River Thames on camera as it surfaced momentarily.
British scholars revealed that acclaimed playwright William Shakespeare's will was written in different sittings
Hidden Nasa recordings reveal Apollo 10 astronauts heard mysterious whistling sound while orbiting the far side of the Moon. [VIDEO]
Zulu the Biggest Friendliest Giraffe is thought to be the world’s tallest giraffe in captivity
Meet Qi Zai, an extremely rare brown and white panda whose unusual appearance has left scientists scratching their heads.
An unexploded Second World War bomb was found in the basement of a three-storey mews in London's East End.
Despite her entire front garden being reduced to a series of muddy trenches, archaeology enthusiast Mary Hudd is delighted with the find.
Steve Feltham gave up his life to devote the past 24 years to finding the first definitive proof of the Loch Ness monster. [VIDEO]
Connall Cairns, 13, has just achieved one of the highest scores in an astrophysics course run by one of the world's top universities.
Solar Impulse 2 took off from eastern China for the longest and most dangerous leg of its audacious attempt to fly around the globe.
Does this murky photograph show the most famous ghost at one of Britain's most haunted sites or something less spooky?
Professor describes prehistoric wonder on Salisbury Plain as 'a unique and possibly failed experiment. '
Lucas Whiteley, four, sends questions to space experts - and the answers are out of this world. [VIDEO]
The violent storms that lashed Britain have laid bare the wreck of the WW2 ship SV Carl.
Thought to date back to the Bronze Age, the stumps became visible for the first time when the peat washed away in rain.
Experts confirmed that the sculpture is one of only two statues of its type in the world.
Britain's only female giant panda was placed under 24-hour surveillance after tests suggested she is expecting.
The love letters between two wartime sweethearts are from a more innocent age, but their contents are not so innocent.
“It will be amazing if we discover an unknown detail from such an important part of British history. ”
Scientists have found evidence that casts doubt on claims that the relic - said to be the burial cloth of Jesus - is a fake and they suggest that it could, after ...
Found beneath the surface of a field in Lancashire, the objects have been hailed by the British Museum as one of the most important Viking discoveries of recent ...
How elephants flirt, argue and have feelings just like humans.
Dog owners like to think that their pets understand what they’re being told.