A British council sent a letter to a United Kingdom couple asking what they were doing with their "empty" and "derelict" home as the government attempts to house asylum seekers.

When the British hotelier Robin Hutson, 67, took a paint brush to a vintage painting in one of his Pig hotels and replaced the man’s red riding jacket with a less-showy brown one, he transformed ...

Photo: Courtesy Company The marble rooms of Paris’s hallowed interiors seem an unlikely place for the British luxury brand of fabric, embroidery, rugs, wallcoverings, and furniture.