A retired headmaster's body had to be exhumed nine days after he was buried by the wrong family in a 'terrible' mortuary mix-up, it has been reported. When undertakers arrived at a hospital mortuary to collect Jimmy McDonald, 90, they ended up taking John Hetford, 89, who had died two …...Read More

An AI pilot has beaten a US Air Force F16 Top Gun in the first ever simulator dogfight competition run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to determine if man can beat machine in the sky. The human pilot, a Weapons School instructor pilot known only by his …...Read More

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to also announce team to speed up upgrades Highways England is also set to renew commitment to tunnel under Stonehenge Another part of the M25 and the M3 also set to be upgraded to smart motorways M6, M62, M56, the M40 and M42 interchange, and the …...Read More

Over the past few days, I've thought often of the opening scene in an episode of Telegoons, the BBC's less than wholly successful 1960s TV adaptation of the young Prince Charles's favourite radio programme, The Goon Show. The scene in question begins as night falls with Henry Crun, a puppet …...Read More

WASHINGTON — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Friday will defend his first three months overseeing the Postal Service and denounce what he describes as a “false narrative” that has emerged about his tenure, telling lawmakers that long-planned changes to make the agency more efficient are not meant to complicate mail-in …...Read More

Dishi Rishi's 'Money For Nothing And Your Chips For Free' deal has been a runaway success, depending on your point of view. More than 35 million half-price meals have been served and the Chancellor is coming under pressure to extend the scheme beyond the end of August. Restaurants report record …...Read More

Surely no civilised person could condone the barbaric sentence meted out to Ye Ming Yuen for drug offences in Singapore. The former public schoolboy was given 20 years after being found guilty of selling a small amount of illegal drugs to his friends; an amount that probably would have got …...Read More

The best contestant to ever appear on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? wins the top prize next month, according to host Jeremy Clarkson. The new series has already been filmed, with one person walking away with £1 million – the sixth millionaire the ITV show has produced since 1998. …...Read More

Jan Leeming says her current TV licence will be her last. She will not pay for another next year because she watches very little and it is a 'waste of money' She was a familiar face to millions of BBC viewers in the Seventies and Eighties. But Jan Leeming says …...Read More

President Trump will hold a funeral service for his younger brother, Robert, at the White House on Friday, three people familiar with the plans said. The president is having his brother’s body driven from New York, where he died, to Washington, D.C., the people said. The plans were first reported …...Read More