The Ministry of Defence should be overhauled to end the 'lack of coherence' between the three branches of the armed forces, according to a report... more
Royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be digitally recorded and available to download online within hours, the Standard can reveal... more
More than 30,000 people are evacuated from their homes as firemen battle to bring under control a massive fire that has devastated forests in northern Israel... more
Prince Harry said he was 'delighted' at his brother's engagement, welcoming Prince William's fiancee Kate Middleton as the 'sister' he had always wanted... more
Singer Robin Gibb tells of his relief after a £3.5 million memorial to the airmen of Bomber Command killed during the Second World War was given the go-ahead... more
Comment: London’s private members’ clubs have traditionally offered a retreat from modernity, where the cares of the City could be escaped, but many are setting aside rooms for business to continue... more
QinetiQ, the privatised defence research company, unveiled a top-level shake-up one day after it was criticised for safety failings that caused an explosion on a Royal Air Force Nimrod plane over Afghanistan in 2006, killing 14 ... more
Military chiefs were blamed for a mid-air explosion on a Nimrod spy plane that caused the biggest single loss of life of British forces since the Falklands war... more
When the Royal Air Force smashed up Berlin's Neues Museum in two nights of bombing, no one could have foreseen that it would take a British architect, more than 60 years later, to put it right... more
Three of the four surviving veterans of the First World War led the nation in a two-minute silence at 11am today to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War... more
For decades the much loved presenter has endured rumours about her private life. Now, with extraordinary candour, she has chosen to set the record straight – about her many men (including Peter Purves and Albert Finney), about Joan Armatrading...and about the lifelong secret which could have destroyed her Blue Peter career.... more
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