A few years ago my mother-in-law, alarmed by a Staffordshire bull terrier that had moved in with our neighbours, suggested ...

Sybil Ludington's Revolutionary War ride could be either entirely true, or the stuff of myth, depending on who you ask.

From a family murder in 1930s China to cooking for prime ministers at Downing Street, the sisters behind Manchester’s Sweet ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald — whose “Great Gatsby” is considered one a great American novel, in the 1930s stayed for several days at ...

The New Zealand Indian Central Association was founded in 1926 to combat racism. Celebrating its centenary, it now wants the injustices to be recognised.

While Cyprus is not a NATO member—a consequence of its historical conflict with Turkey—the geopolitical significance of ...

When Dona Drake made her feature-film debut in Strike Me Pink, she entered a Hollywood that offered almost no space for ...

Patients in Canada are having their lives ended by assisted suicide on the same day that they submit their paperwork requesting it, according to a shocking new report. A total of 65 people died under ...

It was a Renault for the Jean-Paul Belmondo of outer suburbia, who valued charisma over macho posing at the traffic lights. Today, Wayne Johnson’s 1973 example is one of only five believed to remain ...

This 50-metre floating art-deco palace survived the war and parties with Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Nicholson and Frank Sinatra.

Before it gave rise to the Harlem Renaissance and long before it became the epicenter of the Jazz Age, Harlem was a Black Metropolis.