By Chris Court A group of Girl Guides held a top-of-the-world coffee morning near Mount Everest to help raise cash for a cancer charity. The group of 13 are claiming they staged the world's highest coffee morning - at an altitude of 18,500ft - to boost Macmillan Cancer Support.

By Sarah Lyall Seventy-five years ago, courtesy of what he referred to as "the marvels of modern science," King George V became the first British monarch to broadcast a message to his subjects at Christmastime via the radio.

By Sam Greenhill EVERY Christmas Day at 3pm she is the queen of the airwaves. But this year, Elizabeth II will reign over the Internet as well. At the same time as her Christmas message is broadcast on television and radio, it will be posted on the videosharing website YouTube.

Queen Elizabeth II heard three astronauts describe their work aboard the international space station Tuesday as she neared the end of a whirlwind, six-day U.S. tour.

Girl Guides are celebrating the opening of a new activity centre. Around 160 people gathered in Kirknewton, near Wooler in Northumberland, for the opening of Cheviot View. Chief Guide Liz Burnley cut the ribbon at the new centre, which was set up for Girlguiding North Tyneside.