IN a pamphlet entitled “Notes on the Weather of 1931”, issued by the Meteorological Office (Air Ministry), the topsy-turvy character of last year's weather is clearly brought out. New ...

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The Court of Session in Edinburgh is hearing a legal challenge aiming to reverse the removal of the universality of the payment. A legal challenge to the decision to scrap universal winter fuel ...

Live from New York City, it's the Westminster Dog Show. The legendary competition returns to Madison Square Garden for its 2025 event. After changes over the past few seasons, including host ...

LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Climate activists from Just Stop Oil painted over the grave of British naturalist Charles Darwin at London's Westminster Abbey on Monday. Two activists entered ...

Westminster Abbey said it was taking "immediate action" to clean the memorial. Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh, a 77-year-old former chief executive of ...

But because the 72nd Congress didn't hold its first session until December 1931, vacancies and special elections in the interim produced a 219-to-214 seat Democratic majority that elected Rep.

Schmidt (reversing the July 2023 panel decision); the full opinions are over 20,000 words long, so this just gives a flavor of the analysis: Oregon's conversational privacy statute prohibits ...

The new podcast Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring concerns what it calls “the biggest spy story since the Cambridge five scandalised Britain in the second half of the 20th century”.

Welcome to Westminster Abbey. Daily prayer has been offered in this place for over a thousand years, and your participation in today's service is warmly welcomed. At choral Evensong most of the ...

Narrator: The artist Salvador Dalí made The Persistence of Memory in 1931, using oil on canvas. The work measures 9 and a half inches high and 13 inches wide. In metric units, it is 24 centimeters ...