The British Army is to deploy 1,600 troops in Jordan to take part in war games as preparation for a potential ‘confrontation’ between Russia and NATO member countries in Eastern Europe, the Daily Telegraph has reported. Army sources told the paper that the exercise, which will simulate an Iraq invasion for the first time in over a decade, is not a prelude to sending ground troops to fight Islamic... 

Britain says it rejects a UN panel ruling that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is the victim of arbitrary detention at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and insists he will still be extradited to Sweden if arrested in the UK. “This changes nothing,” a British government spokesman responded to the UN decision, adding that London will formally contest the ruling. The UK insists that Assange is voluntarily... 

UK’s BBC channel is launching a new reality show devoted to the scenario of WWIII. The authors of the project say that the show is based on real events, although the plot has little in common with reality, at least for the time being. In the show, Russian troops “invade” Latvia as a reason to start a nuclear war. Latvia’s NATO allies – the UK and the USA – take... 

The European Council President Donald Tusk has agreed that Britain meets the requirement that will allow London to curb in-work benefit payments to EU migrants, the Downing Street spokesperson said. UK Prime Minister David Cameron is seeking to renegotiate his country’s EU membership. Brussels said earlier it was mulling a four-year “emergency brake” on benefits to new EU migrants... 

Prior to the mass invasion of Europe, liberals controlled debate by means of crude stop-words (bigot, racist, etc.) or accusations of a lack of compassion (with themselves as the arbiters of compassion, naturally). But there is a sea change occurring. Europeans – terrified though they are of being thought anything but good, kind and orthodox, no matter their private opinion – are now afraid of... 

Planet 2MASS J2126, which was considered an independent space body, moves in orbit around the star about one trillion kilometers far from the planet, the Royal Astronomical Society said. A team of astronomers from the UK, the US and Australia described their discovery in “Monthly Notices” journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Scientists discovered the planet as a separate body eight... 

Scotland would use a British exit of the European Union to break away from the United Kingdom, former Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned. Speaking to French radio station Europe 1, Blair said he was “very worried” about the result of the upcoming referendum. “There’s a little-mentioned aspect, which is that, in my opinion, if the UK votes to leave Europe, Scotland will vote to leave the... 

Prime Minister David Cameron is hoping to secure key EU reforms including restrictions on migration during a meeting with Czech leaders in Prague on Friday. Cameron will hold talks with Czech President Milos Zeman and Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka after leaving the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The PM is hoping to gain key concessions from European countries at an EU gathering next... 

Analysis of satellite data of the Antarctic ice sheet has revealed a canyon system that dwarfs the Grand Canyon. The Antarctic is home to the world’s largest canyon, according to a study of satellite data by scientists from Durham University in the UK. “Antarctic scientists have long recognized that because the way ice flows, the landscape beneath the ice sheet was subtly reflected in... 

Members of the “Black and Asian Studies Association” have got a history course introduced to 16 year-old English school children, which teaches that Africans were the earliest inhabitants of England. The creators of the course said the point of the course is to challenge the “white male-dominated” history of Britain. And how do they back up this questionable claim that Africans were the first... 

The British government has issued guidelines on how much alcohol adults should drink, for the first time in twenty years. The UK’s chief medical officer says women should drink no more than seven glasses of wine a week, whereas men should drink no more than the equivalent to six pints of beer. Alcohol is one of Britain’s biggest health problems, with binge drinking being a prime cause of anti-social... 

Mr Farage’s Volvo, which was involved in the incident. When the emergency services arrived, they told a shaken Mr Farage that he had been the victim of a malicious act. Nigel Farage, the controversial leader of UKIP who’s previously been dubbed the “most successful patriot in Britain”, revealed this weekend a frightening attempt on his life. While it happened in October 2015, this is the... 

The European Union is seemingly heading to dissolution, unraveling along ideological, national, tribal and historic lines, US conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan observes, asking whether the multiracial and multicultural United States will face similar fate. The European Union, overloaded with an economic recession, a refugee crisis, and growing secessionism, risks falling apart at the seams,... 

A newly released Cold War-era list of nuclear targets shows the US planned to inflict “systematic destruction” on enemy cities and target the “population” of those areas. It is the most comprehensive Cold War nuclear target list to become declassified. The Strategic Air Command (SAC) Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956, was published by the National Security Archive... 

Traffic was brought to a standstill on a major road in Cambridgeshire after police found 24 suspected illegal immigrants in the back of a refrigerated truck. Police closed lanes on the A14 westbound at Junction 31 following the discovery, according to local radio station Heart Cambridgeshire. A caller told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire journalist Sam Edwards they saw a man being “resuscitated” beside...