On the 77th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence from colonial rule following foreign domination of some four and a half ...

Fukuda-san is perfectly bald, with a luxuriant mustache. His work has been described as “kind of British,” which means he ...

the British Mandate for Palestine was one of the collection of mandates created by the allies who defeated the Germans and their WWI partners, including the Ottoman Empire. The Mandate for ...

At the end of the 1972-73 season an ailing Law suffered ... with his Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) medal that was presented to him by the Duke of Cambridge during an ...

The F word. F… U… and no need for that third and fourth letter, the point is made without. Writing the third and fourth letter changes the meaning in no way, it just adds the unpleasant “uch” sound.

Cymande are the funk legends who were loved in America but ignored in the UK, and are now about to have all the world’s ...

Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time' ...

Drummer Phil Collins is the patriarch of a talent-rich family, with five kids who all have careers in acting, music or sports ...

His father, a fisherman, was killed in 1942 when his boat hit a British-laid mine ... Appalled by the threat to France's colonial empire, he joined the Foreign Legion, and fought in French ...

For many years, the New York Islanders were a hockey team, if not without a home, without the kind of home its owners wanted.

It was built by sculptor William Aumonier for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 ... strong 50 years after the tomb's discovery. In 1972 the British Museum launched an exhibition containing ...