Peter Burling skippered the New Zealand Black Foils to victory in SailGPs season-opening regatta in Dubai. Once again, he beat a British crew as he did in winning his third straight Americas Cup a month ago. Burling aggressively squeezed his 50-foot foiling catamaran inside Emirates Great Britain and its new helmsman, Dylan Fletcher, going through the fourth gate to take the lead. The mov...

British TV presenter Alex Scott has revealed that online trolls threatened to throw acid in her face, leaving her scared to leave her home.  Scott is a former England footballer with 140 national caps to her name who hosts Football Focus and has been the occasional presenter for The One Show and Match of the […]

The 28th Black Nights Film Festival, known as PFF, wrapped Nov. 22 with an awards ceremony in Tallinn where filmmakers took centre stage to ask for the end of war in the Middle East, solidarity with Georgia under Russian influence and the defence of culture. Oscar-nominated British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi whose debut feature The Teacher […]

Recognizing the brilliance of British director Lucy Walker, both as a filmmaker and as an advocate for the documentary format, Shekhar Kapur hurriedly arranged an additional masterclass on Saturday at the International Film Festival of India, where he is festival director. And hosted the session himself. Their conversation ranged from technology and technique through to […]

On Oct. 1, 1942, a Japanese freighter carrying over 1,800 British POWs captured during the Battle of Hong Kong was torpedoed by an American sub. The chaos that followed wherein members of the Japanese army shot any prisoner aiming to swim to safety while a slew of fishing boats helped in their rescue […]

The prestigious Polish cinematography festival's jury, led by Cate Blanchett, awarded the second-place Silver Frog to British DP Low Crawley for his work on Brady Corbet's artist epic 'The Brutalist.'

In 1938, the British Royal Air Force (RAF)Blackburn B-26 Bothatook flight. It was part of the RAFs rearmament program. Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd., built the twin-engine plane that was intended to be a multirole platform. Yet, it is widely considered to be the worst bomber ever built.Powered by ...

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Moscow's ambassador to Britain asserted that the United Kingdom is now "directly involved" in the war in Ukraine after Kyiv used British-made Storm Shadow long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia.The post B...

VANG VIENG, Laos (AP) The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the mass poisoning that has killed at least six tourists, promising it would bring perpetrators to justice.Two Australian teenagers and a British woman died from suspected methanol poisoning after

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) Former British Open champion Cameron Smith birdied three of his first four holes for a 6-under 65 and was tied for the second-round lead at the rain-shortened Australian PGA championship at Royal Queensland. Heavy rain showers and an unplayable course on Friday forced the second round to be abandoned and made the joint Australasian PGA and European Tour event a 54-h...

There won't be a sitting of the British Columbia legislature this fall as originally planned.

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