Europe

3+ hour, 12+ min ago   (231+ words) Jones answered the captain of HMS Serapis off Flamborough Head on 23 September 1779, with his own ship burning. The line reaches us through one officer who wrote it down years later....

9+ hour, 26+ min ago   (186+ words) Munhal Amer was killed by fire from a Syrian helicopter while fighting on the Golan Heights. His brother and former crew members remember a shy, courageous young man who never got to fulfill his greatest dream: becoming a painter The…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (209+ words) On Scotland Green, Ponder’s End At Clandon, Surrey – formerly the residence of Mr John Woolderidge, the Clandon Poet Near Jack Straw’s Castle, Hampstead Heath Near Palmer’s Green, Edmonton At Ponder’s End, Near Enfield On Merrow Common, Surrey At Cobham, Surrey…...

7+ hour, 59+ min ago   (233+ words) A campaign to help remember a "significant World War Two commander" is under way after his final resting place was discovered earlier this year. Brig Alfred Snow was the senior British officer responsible for the liberation of the Channel Islands…...

9+ hour, 34+ min ago   (1011+ words) Deep in the forests of central Lithuania, along the banks of the Lietava River, stands an ornate wooden church that seems almost out of place in the wilderness. There are no houses around it. No permanent residents. The road leading…...

17+ hour, 28+ min ago   (1066+ words) Por Billy Stockwell, CNN Cuando Earl Charles Spencer pronunció su emotivo discurso fúnebre por la fallecida princesa Diana, prometió proteger a sus hijos, a quienes se refirió como su “familia de sangre”, de la angustia que regularmente llevaba a su…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (693+ words) Xinhua 19 Sep 2026, 02:15 GMT+ by Xinhua writer Zhang Feng LONDON, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Near the banks of the River Thames in London, not far from Tower Bridge, a 187-meter-long vessel sits quietly at anchor, its massive hull a reminder of its wartime…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (254+ words) OSLO, Sept 20 — Norway’s King Harald V has been entombed within a ship-shaped sarcophagus carved from a carbon dioxide-absorbing ancient rock, the palace revealed on Friday. Next to no details of the late monarch’s final resting place had previously come to…...

22+ hour, 49+ min ago   (602+ words) This book was first published seventeen years ago and is now republished as a Modern Welsh Classic. The centre of Wales is depopulated; most Welsh people these days live along the M4 or the A55 at the country’s extremities. Unlike other regions,…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (581+ words) Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer is now at the centre of renewed attention because of his forthcoming memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister. The book is due to be published on 22 September 2026, and is described by its publisher as an intimate…...