British archaeologists dug up the tiny coffin in Giza, Egypt, nearly 100 years ago, and it has sat in a Cambridge museum ever since.

The past glory apparently hasn't stopped the Queen and her PM from still thinking themselves better than their former colonial subjects.

The British Queen was caught on camera making unguarded comments about a state visit last year by Chinese President Xi Jinping

The election of a candidate of Islamic Pakistani extraction as mayor of London is a proud moment for Britain and inclusion of minorities in its politics.

The "six-year-old boy" cuddled by "Baroness Bra" Michelle Mone has threatened to take up drinking.

British lingerie magnate Michelle Mone has told of her embarrassment after lifting up a man she mistook for a 6-year-old boy.

Photos of him feeding two lions taken to his home in west London have angered a wildlife charity.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, it is said, and this car parked up near Harrods appears to be a classic example.

COMMENT: The possibility of a majority of British voting for absolute sovereignty in their referendum has many people worried.

It was an event that mixed solemnity, pomp, royalty and quite a bit of low farce. William Shakespeare probably would have approved.

Victoria Wood, who has died of cancer aged 62, found success in the 1970s as one of Britain's first female stand-up comics and the plump chanteuse of bittersweet songs.

London is marking 40 years since the summer punk was born with a series of events, gigs and exhibits.

Police in the UK launch investigation after footage of young Hull teen being bashed by three adults appears on social media.

She is marking her actual birthday on April 21 with three days of events in Windsor, before more elaborate festivities in London next month and on her official birthday in June.

Her birthday comes months after she surpassed the 23,226 days her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria spent on the throne to become Britain's longest-reigning monarch.

The BBC has been accused by a British Cabinet minister of "pursuing an agenda" against Culture Secretary John Whittingdale.

A high-tech marine drone scouring the depths of Scotland's Loch Ness for one of nature's most elusive beasts has found a "monster" - but not the one it was looking for.

New Zealand lamb is being sold under label set up by Prince Charles to promote best of British.

British Prime Minister David Cameron says his taxes are a private matter, then he admits he had held a £30,000 stake in an offshore fund set up by his father.

David Cameron has admitted he did own shares in his late father Ian Cameron's offshore firm Blairmore Holdings.

A mother whose baby boy died after she spent hours drinking with his father is still living with her other son.

The parents of a month-old baby who died after they went on a 24-hour Christmas drinking binge and didn't know where he was have escaped prosecution.

Two teenage girls absconded from care homes 18 times in the 30 nights before battering a vulnerable woman to death in an orgy of violence, it has emerged.

A British skier has told how he escaped in his socks from a pack of wolves after accidentally going off-piste and crashing into a tree while on holiday.

A UK museum dedicated to poo, with real-life examples from the animal and human world, has opened to the public.

A man living in Queensland believes he is the secret love-child of Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

Wendi Deng, 47, is rumoured to be seeing Russian President Vladimir Putin. But the Kremlin has denied any relationship between the two.

Britain seems to be forgetting its history with NZ, PM John Key says he told his UK counterpart, David Cameron, at a meeting in Washington yesterday.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge want to "create new memories" of the Taj Mahal where William's mother, Diana, defined her own loneliness.

The former wife of the media mogul is reportedly in a "serious" relationship with the world leader.