The Egyptian Enchantment. A Lottie Lipton Adventure by Dan Metcalf (Bloomsbury, €6.40)

Lottie Lipton lives very happily in the British Museum with her father who works there, and her elderly eccentric Great Uncle, Professor Bertram West.

USA: A water manager is facing discipline after he was caught urinating in an empty reservoir that supplies drinking water for the San Francisco Bay Area.

‘Waterloo’ meticulously recalls the events of four days in June 200 years ago when 200,000 men were engaged in a struggle which laid the foundations of contemporary Europe, writes Allan Prosser.

100 years ago today Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’ shocked class-ridden Victorian Britain, writes Robert Hume.

As the debate raged on, Kate Midleton took it all in her stride.

Kate Middleton, aka Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, confessed today that she is nervous about giving birth as she came under scathing attack from novelist Hilary Mantel.

Award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel has attacked the Duchess of Cambridge as a “shop-window mannequin” with no personality, whose only purpose is to breed.

Artist Patricia Looby’s love of fabrics and religious relics inspired her show at Christchurch, says Tina O’Sullivan

TO lose one of the world’s great managers may be regarded as a misfortune.

IRA terrorists behind a two-year bombing campaign in the 1970s compiled lists of hundreds of possible targets, including British MPs, soldiers and Buckingham Palace, newly released files revealed today.

AN expert on Anglo-Saxon inscription at University College Cork has helped to date part of a treasure hoard described as Britain’s equivalent to the Book of Kells.

Richard Collins on the translator whose persistence solved a mystery.

Thousands of human rights protesters disrupted the Olympic Torch Relay through London today, billed as a journey of harmony and peace.

American film director Jules Dassin, whose Greek wife Melina Mercouri starred in his hit movie 'Never On Sunday' and six more of his films, has died in Athens at 96.

An exhibition of China’s Terracotta Warriors in London was today targeted by protesters, who hung pro-Tibetan slogans around statues’ necks.

AN unprecedented exhibition featuring warriors from China’s Terracotta Army takes place at the British Museum from Thursday. About a dozen of the world-famous figures have been moved across the world from the tomb of China’s First Emperor, where they were uncovered in 1974.

The largest ever loan of artefacts from China’s famed terracotta army has started its journey to London today.

A German university today returned a small sculpture taken from the 2,500-year-old Parthenon – a gesture the government said would bolster efforts to regain the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum.

THE first thing that hit you was the silence. One of the world’s noisiest, most vibrant cities had fallen quiet, shocked by the horror unfolding before it.

EXACTLY 30 minutes after the first bomb blast at Edgware Road, a bomb tore the roof off a red number 30 double decker bus packed with commuters forced above ground after the Tube network had been shut down.

IT’S 2.04pm when the plane touches down. “Welcome to London Heathrow,” the air hostess begins.

Designers of Revenge Of The Mummy – The Ride, the new thrill ride opening this week at Universal Studios in Hollywood, travelled to London’s British Museum to check for authenticity of the scary attraction based on the popular Mummy films.

The death, at the age of 73, of Portadown-born film critic, Alexander Walker, of the London Evening Standard, has robbed the industry of one of its most influential - and literate - writers ... and our own industry of a staunch supporter.

Scotland The Brave may raid Royal Ascot after justifying stable confidence with a clear-cut success on her racecourse debut in the Manny Bernstein Pay Double Result Fillies’ Handicap at Redcar.

US President George Bush was today paying his first visit to the Queen at Buckingham Palace.

A MP has suggested that the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum should be returned to Athens when the city hosts the Olympic Games in 2004.