This was the Pete Rose way: defiant but pleading, self-regarding and self-pitying, semi-persuasive despite his persistent ...

It was a prohibition that stood for 1,000 years - until one particularly capricious monarch decided otherwise. In 1540, King Henry VIII changed the law to allow first-cousin marriage so he could ...

On 11 December 1936 the former King Edward VIII spoke to a stunned nation and announced that he had abdicated the throne in favour of his brother, so as to be free to marry the woman he loved ...

After ruling for less than one year, Edward VIII becomes the first English monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne. He chose to abdicate after the British government, public, and the Church of ...

There were a few made in 1936 for French government trials. The exact quantity is not known. It was designed for the French 7.65 Long automatic cartridge (page 28 of Centerfire Metric Revolver ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Walking briskly over the Pont Neuf towards the Louvre, as night fell over Paris, I began to see other ...

Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre ...