A huge collection of Staffordshire pottery gathered over four decades by a Borders hotelier is going up for auction.More than 1,000 pieces which belonged to the late ceramics enthusiast Sheila Brooks ...

Of the many first-rate photographers who became fascinated by postwar railroading, one of the best was James La Vake. An ...

The statue of a person some call an "explorer" and others call a "colonizer" has been vandalized in Australia. English naval ...

SYDNEY >> A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before Australia’s ...

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's east has been splashed with red paint and had the sandstone damaged for the second time in 12 months.

His memorials have been the focus of Australia Day protests in recent years but Captain James Cook's life and death show he ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The Trump-Vance transition team released the official portraits Thursday, along with the caption: “And They Go Hard” followed by a flame emoji.

The Trump-Vance Transition Team unveiled on Thursday the administration's official portraits of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance. "In just four days, Donald J.

As preparations for Donald Trump’s second inauguration intensify, the president-elect’s official portrait has become the subject of widespread attention and, in many cases, ridicule.

James Francis Hurley was born at Glebe ... In 1917, he became one of the AIF's official photographers with the honorary rank of captain. Some of Hurley's most famous images of the war were taken ...

World Cup winning England batter James Vince has quit his red-ball deal ... Vince, 33, has stepped down after 10 years as club captain and renegotiated his contract to a white-ball-only agreement ...