A diary belonging to acclaimed Scottish artist Duncan Grant has sold for 17 times its auction estimate. The diary, which was recently discovered years after his death in 1978, was started on January ...

A diary belonging to acclaimed Scottish artist Duncan Grant has been discovered nearly 50 years after his death in 1978. The painter and designer, who was born near Aviemore in 1885, was a central ...

The portraits of Edvard Munch contain hidden psychological depths. Here's our pick of the top five masterpieces in a new show ...

A bible was recently sold in London for $19,500. It is known as the Mazarin bible because a copy of the edition, of which but ...

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I'm Amy. Traffic around the Palace of Westminster in London came to a standstill on Saturday as emergency services tried to reach a man who climbed the Big Ben tower holding a Palestinian flag ...

Flights between Heathrow, DFW diverted after London airport shutdown Heathrow’s shutdown created global travel turmoil, but impact on DFW is muted. London’s Heathrow resumes flights after a ...

The story of the London food scene is one that includes dim sum, Sunday roasts, curries, pizza, sinasir, rarebits, banh mi, udon, pepper pot, sweetbread suya, and natural wine. Across cuisines ...

where stood the tomb of a Sufi Saint named Kamal Shah (London, 1885, p.335), says Dr Arshad Mahmood Nashad in his Raushni Ki Aik Sadi: Government College Attock Ki Tareekh, a commemorative volume ...

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NEW YORK — You don’t walk into C.O. Bigelow, a 187-year-old apothecary in downtown Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, for the same reasons you might walk into another neighborhood pharmacy chain.

The Bismarck-led talks lasted from November 15, 1884 until February 26, 1885. On the agenda was the ... on his return from a London conference where he won concessions from the British to give ...