“Mr Bates vs the Post Office” showed that TV dramas have the power to “intensify public disgust at a scandal, forcing official attitudes to change”, said Jack Seale in The Guardian. If Channel 4’s ...

Britain’s House of Lords, the unelected upper chamber of Parliament, will no longer include hereditary peers under a bill that gained final approval Tuesday night. Under the law, the remaining earls, ...

“In the 13 years since it first slo-mo strutted onto our TV screens, ‘Peaky Blinders’ has become a cultural phenomenon,” said Dan Jolin in Empire. Now, we have a spin-off film set in the thick of the ...

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Situated northwest of the Strait of Hormuz, the strategically important shipping route in the Gulf, Kharg Island has long been seen as Tehran’s Achilles’ heel. Grabbing it today could “let Trump beat ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of a 75-year-old inmate scheduled for execution Wednesday night for a murder he did not commit or even witness. Charles “Sonny” Burton ...

The government has said its new definition of anti-Muslim hostility does not restrict people’s freedom to criticise Islamism but gives “a clear explanation of unacceptable prejudice, discrimination ...

His “ascent marks the collapse of the last egalitarian pillar of the revolution, namely that the mullahs, unlike decadent ...

Some people travel for leisure but for those who love history, Unesco’s World Heritage Sites are a ready-made bucket list. The UN agency started these listings in 1978 with a goal of preserving ...

Lobster fishers have been forced to “grapple with soaring business costs, inflation and a changing ocean,” said The Associated Press. Increasing costs fueled the significant decline in Maine’s lobster ...

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The Pentagon on Tuesday night said the U.S. had destroyed several Iranian naval vessels, “including 16 mine layers near the Strait of Hormuz,” during another da ...