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

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 ...

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 ...

A Google-backed mission to detect wildfires from space launched a prototype satellite last week, which is now communicating with its developers on Earth. “The devastating wildfires in Los ...

Ever tossed aside loose change without thinking twice? One particular British coin may make you wish you hadn't, with the potential to fetch a hefty sum. Such a remarkable coin is none other than ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A British man and woman were arrested by the Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division (FNID) after they were caught smuggling cocaine worth $92.7 million at the Norman ...

Less than three years later, her career met a tragic end. Though short, her experience as a member of the aerial police force and exhibition pilot captures the inherent risk of flight and early ...

Satellite images taken at the beginning of March show the iceberg parked on a shallow underwater shelf off the coast of South Georgia Island, which is a British overseas territory in the South ...