The Award (if I had one) for Best News Story of the Day (Week, Month, Year) goes to the BBC when it reported DNA results have confirmed the skeleton found underneath a Leicester parking lot in August 2012 is Richard III remains, the last of the Plantagenet Kings of England. He died on the battlefield in 1485 and was immortalized by Shakespeare in the last lines of his eponymous historical play of the king, "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse." Recent historical research suggests that Shakespeare was acting as a propagandist on behalf of the Tudors in maligning Richard III whose death ended the War of the Roses.
Read more about Richard III (Reddit links).
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