A born natural orator': Irish student's account of Hitler in 1921 emerges

Adolf Hitler photographed in 1921, the year Daniel Binchy saw him address a crowd in a Munich beer hall

Diary entries by Daniel Binchy – future Irish ambassador to Germany – provide early account of Nazi leader’s rhetorical skills.

Plastered Prime Minister: Does a boozing politician make a better world leader?

PITT the Younger downed three bottles of port a day yet he ruled Downing Street for 18 years. So does booze actually make politicians better?

Does fondness for drink make a better world leader?

Alcohol may not have improved democracy one single jot - but it has certainly made it less boring. The real question is whether a fondness for drink makes you a better world leader.  Prime Ministers seem to have had a pretty intimate relationship with alcohol down the years although drinking by incumbents at Number 10 has become scarcer of late.

Secret passage found in pyramid: Thermal scans show STRANGE heat spots and hidden chambers

OFFICIALS have been left baffled after new thermal scans of Egypt's Giza pyramids revealed unusually high sources of heat from a number of previously undiscovered secret passages.

The thermal images have revealed secret passages in the pyramids

Temperature anomalies have been recorded in the 4,500-year-old burial structures, including a major one in the largest pyramid- the Pyramid of Cheops.

Death by moonlight: 75 years on from the devastating Luftwaffe blitz of Coventry

IT WAS the bombing raid that led to the coining of a new verb “Koventrieren”, or in English, to Coventrate. 

Just one night of bombing killed 568 men, women and children and left more than 1,200 people injured

“The word embodied the idea of the physical and psychological destruction of an entire city,” explains historian Angus Calder.