Art owned by TS Eliot's widow on sale
It's the collection that "Cats" built. A multimillion-dollar trove of works by artists including J.M.W. Turner, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and ...
Online gags galore after Czech president's mishap
Was he or wasn't he? The video footage shows the new Czech president clearly worse for wear, propping himself up against a wall at a public event, ...
Va. governor's chef amid a political potboiler
Todd Schneider came with a lot of celebrity cachet when he was hired in 2010 as chef at Virginia's historic Executive Mansion and he was soon cast as ...
UK, lawyers for Kenya torture victims in talks
Lawyers for Kenyans tortured during a rebellion against colonial rule in the 1950s said Monday that they are negotiating with the British government ...
Early Hollywood superstar Deanna Durbin dies at 91
Deanna Durbin, a star whose songs and smile made her one of the biggest box office draws of Hollywood's Golden Age with fans that included Winston ...
NCAA, Emmert face tough agenda at board meeting
NCAA President Mark Emmert looks and sounds increasingly frustrated. Some of the fast-track reforms he championed in August 2011 have been slowed down ...
Finest Hour: Churchill to be on UK bank note
Here's a choice not likely to be too controversial: officials say wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill's portrait will be featured on a new ...
Bush library exhibits: 9/11, war, Katrina, recount
A tour of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum begins in a bright area representing his early domestic agenda, but with one turn, ...
Pre-dawn rehearsal for Margaret Thatcher's funeral
A pre-dawn military rehearsal was held Monday in preparation for Margaret Thatcher's funeral, while officials announced the familiar bells of the Big ...
More than 2,000 invited to Thatcher funeral
Invitations to Margaret Thatcher's funeral are going out to more than 2,000 celebrities, dignitaries, colleagues and friends of the late British ...
UK lawmakers pay tribute to Margaret Thatcher
British lawmakers remembered former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Wednesday as a towering political figure who restored her country's confidence ...
Thatcher funeral set for April 17; queen to attend
Queen Elizabeth II will be among the mourners at the funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on April 17, officials announced Tuesday.
A guide to Britain's new media regulation regime
The British government is setting up a new media watchdog to tame the country's scandal-tainted press. The move comes after a phone hacking scandal ...
Mirren reigns as Britain's queen in 'The Audience'
What is the point of a monarch? "The Audience," Peter Morgan's new play about Queen Elizabeth II, suggests that in a democracy such as Britain, one ...
Chileans get spot to indulge in frowned-on siestas
Cars honk, people yell and radios blare outside, yet Carmen Castillo is getting a rejuvenating midday nap in downtown Santiago, snoozing away her ...
Hagel: Time to 'turn the page' on decade of war
Chuck Hagel was sworn in Wednesday as defense secretary — President Barack Obama's third in just over four years and the first who really wanted one ...
British premier lays wreath at India massacre site
Britain's prime minister laid a mourning wreath Wednesday at the site of a notorious 1919 massacre of hundreds of Indians by British colonial forces, ...
A poet too? Rare Churchill verse for sale
Wartime leader, Nobel Prize-winning historian, amateur painter — and perhaps a poet, too. A rare piece of verse by Winston Churchill is set to be ...
Column: Balotelli can shake off clown tag in Italy
"A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma:" Winston Churchill's famous description of Russia easily could be applied to Mario Balotelli.
History, culture, humor on new UK citizenship test
What does it mean to be British? Monarchs, Margaret Thatcher and Monty Python are all important parts of the nation's heritage, according to a new ...
UK won't let British veterans accept Russian medal
Reay Clarke, who risked his life on World War II Arctic convoys, doesn't understand why the British government wants him and other elderly veterans ...
UK man jailed over forged Churchill signatures
A British antiques dealer has been jailed for 10 months for forging the signatures of Winston Churchill and other famous figures in books he sold as ...
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