A giant tortoise that has been dubbed the world’s oldest living creature may actually be an imposter, living under an assumed identity, it has emerged.It had been reported that Jonathan, a present-day resident of St Helena, was living on the remote...

Napoleon massacred more than 100,000 Caribbean slaves and should be remembered as a genocidal dictator and inspiration for Hitler rather than a military genius and founder of modern France, a French historian said yesterday.

It was a defining moment in British history – a triumph that brought the crowning of a national hero and the end of a bitter foe.

And France is determined to ensure that it never happens again.

Almost two centuries after the Battle of Waterloo,...