She was owned by a Chinaman, chartered by an Arab, and commanded by a sort of renegade New South Wales German who, apparently on the strength of Bismarck’s victorious policy, brutalized all those he ...

Actor and comedian Stephen Fry and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan are among the notable people to feature in the New ... British Empire Medal for services to the community in North Wales, and to ...

An MP named in the New Year Honours ... Islington South and Finsbury Park MP Emily Thornberry has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her political and ...

Wales rugby great Gerald Davies has said he is "dumbstruck" after being awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours ... Lions manager for the 2009 tour to South Africa and also served as Welsh ...

But in a new twist, her twin grandsons ... emailed Ms Hooper almost an hour before the December 20 hearing, to flag her twin clients’ action. SA businessman Constantine (Con) Polites with ...

A swathe of dull and drizzly weather will hit the UK over the coming days - before “wet and rather windy” conditions will blast parts of Britain on New Year ... Further south it will be ...

Now there is a push for the South Australian government to intervene ... been constructed from steel made in Whyalla, including the new Western Sydney airport and the nation's public rail networks.

Then there's the Empire of Atlantium, "the world's foremost aspirant extraterritorial, transnational, intercultural, panarchist state," in New South Wales, Australia. Principality of Sealand — a ...

American flags will still be flying at half-mast on ... undermining protections for legal immigrants as well. Trump’s new “border czar,” Tom Homan, previously said that he expected support ...

The Aboriginal people were met with violence and new diseases brought by ... to gain independence from the British Empire. Figure caption, The Ghanaian flag was designed by Theodosia Okoh, a ...

The Daily Mail says Rachel Reeves is drawing up options for emergency spending cuts or tax rises, because of a risk she will break her own fiscal rules. It says "Treasury sources" acknowledged Reeves ...

The flag above the White House has been lowered to half-mast out of respect, and the Empire State Building in New York has been lit up in Red, White and Blue to "honour the life and legacy" of the ...