Errors by officials in the US are likely to blame for a mix-up that left the tiny Norfolk Island near Australia with huge tariffs, after ...

The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed U.K.

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At this original location, the observatory was set up with the goal of producing star charts and accurate time-keeping devices, to allow the British military and commercial fleets to more ...

Some airplanes are graceful, beautiful machines that soar effortlessly through the sky. Others, not so much. Which airplanes are the ugliest in history?

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The most-visited attraction in the UK for the second year in a row was the British Museum, according to official figures. The famous London museum saw 6,479,952 visitors through its doors in 2024 ...

The British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, its highest number since 2015, The Art Newspaper's annual visitor figure report has revealed. The total places it third in our survey ...

according to the Girsu Project—a collaborative research project by the British Museum and Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. Around 2300 B.C.E., the Mesopotamian king Sargon—a ...

with its quintessentially British, delightfully eccentric Victorian charm entirely intact. A gilded, sumptuous jewel box of a museum, always serene despite being just a stone’s throw from the chaos of ...