Police are trying to recover a toilet made entirely from 18-carat-gold said to be worth around $6 million that was stolen Saturday morning from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, the stately home where former prime minister Winston Churchill was born.
Britain's unending Brexit crisis has shifted the foundations of the country's politics and claimed the careers of two prime ministers in collateral damage. But few examples of its seismic effect on Westminster could be more profound than an extraordinary sacking made on Tuesday evening.
Winston Churchill's policies caused a famine that claimed more than 3 million Indian lives, according to a new study using soil analysis for the first time to prove the origins of the disaster.
The story of Britain's Queen Anne and the two women who vied to be her treasured companion is deftly told in Yorgos Lanthimos' inventive film "The Favourite." It's drawn 10 Oscar nominations, tying "Roma" in leading this year's Academy Awards.
It's taken $280 million and more than four years, but in March 2019 the famed Hôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo, regarded as one of the world's most luxurious hotels, will debut its dramatic renovation in full.
There is growing realization -- and fear -- among Chinese officials in Beijing that U.S. President Donald Trump could be serious in his promise to upend the types of bilateral relations they have become accustomed to in the past few decades.
Construction workers in the UK have found wads of cash dating back to World War II at a shop that once belonged to a tailor beloved by Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine.
When you see a performance as stunning as Gary Oldman's in the new biographical World War II drama "Darkest Hour," it begs the natural question of where Oldman the actor ended and his channeling of legendary British Prime Minister Winston Churchill began.
More than 50 years after his death, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is having a bit of a moment.
