Famous Moroccan artist owes his career to Churchill

Dan Snow explained how Fred Goodwin was not the first person to fall from grace and how history shows more famous faces have also lost their titles.

It's Henry Tudor's Birthday!! Or would be, if he had possessed a sort of rarefied human longevity that matched his legendary wealth. The man who founded England's most famous and popular dynasty, the all-conquering Tudors, was born on this day in 1457. His mysterious, secretive personality, grasping acquisitiveness, extraordinarily canny political nouse and ceaseless intelligence gathering secured...

FORMER Army commanders have reacted angrily to plans for some of Britain's most famous regiments to be transferred into "Alex Salmond's home guard".

The Champagne flowed and Van Morrison sang as some of Ulster's most famous sons and daughters gathered at St James' Palace in London on Wednesday night.

Herman Cain may have dropped out of the Presidential race weeks ago, but new ads are advocating a vote for him in South Carolina. These videos, including the one above, are being put out by the ‘Super PAC’ set up by satirist Stephen Colbert, the host of the Colbert Report famous for joking at George Bush's expense at the 2006 White House Correspondents' dinner. Super PACs ...

Some of Britain's most famous regiments could be transferred to a Scottish Defence Force if the country becomes independent.

This is one of those articles where quoting the last line emphatically does not spoil the whole thing. Professor Brindley belongs in the pantheon of famous British eccentrics who have made spectacular contributions to science. The story of his lecture...

McDonald Bailey was certainly among the most famous names in British sport when Britain last hosted the Olympics, in 1948. Yet today he has almost been forgotten. It's not how it should have been. He should have been our Jesse Owens. Look at a photo of the British Olympic team of 1948 and Bailey stands out as the only black face in a monochrome sea. He was, you see, from Trinidad. He could ha...

            The downgrade of Euroland bonds has been like the green bottles song. Now there are just Germany and the Netherlands left. I pointed out a long time ago on this site that the famous big bazooka EFSF, the fund they said would rescue Euro countries in trouble, always rested on their ability to