In May, 1967 a skinny, pale junior schoolboy from a rural market town celebrated his seventh birthday with his parents. Not at home under the big skies of East Anglia, but in Malgrat de Mar, a beach...

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Andrew Karpen, the iconic founder and CEO of Bleecker Street Media who was behind Oscar nominated films including Captain Fantastic and Trumbo, has died at age 59 from glioblastoma, a rare and...

By the spring of 1945, the war in Europe was heading towards its bloody and violent close as Allied forces battled deep into Nazi Germany. At the vanguard of the advance were the battle-hardened...

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Protecting our waters from the real risk of Russian sabotage and surveillance is the Ministry of Defence’s "next frontier”, experts have said. And now a British maritime defence company has...

The White House could "switch off the UK's nuclear deterrent" as fears of an impending military confrontation with Russia continue to grow, a leading academic has warned. The UK's Trident nuclear...

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