Mamma Mia! has broken so many records – highest-grossing musical ever, highest-grossing film in the history of UK cinema, most genuinely baffling box-office success in the history of time – that a sequel was always on the cards. Now, according to...

A series of events are taking place today to mark the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Hitler's offensive which sparked the second world war 10.09am: The historian Norman Davies told the BBC today the Polish tragedy was "hi...

It is 400 years since Galileo Galilei demonstrated his telescope, which would lead him to make new astronomical observations While many people have been loudly celebrating this year's double commemoration of 200 years since Charles Darwin's ...

Top table tennis players have long used "speed glue" to boost the power and spin of their shots, but the sport's rulers fear they could be risking their health by inhaling toxic fumes. Just outside...