In three crazy weeks, Mr Trump has shown that other than technological and military supremacy, the US and indeed nearly all developed countries are as ordinary as they can get. Germany, after all, ...

Where South Africa had been openly welcomed in African countries this was not exploited. The Central African Republic under President Jean-Bédel Bokassa had contracted Anglo-American’s LTA to build a ...

(who was CIA director), French president Giscard d’Estaing attended the coronation as emperor of Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the British under Harold Wilson sent enormous quantities of arms and provided RAF ...

"She lead by example and we owe her so much," Ron Howard wrote of his late mother Jean's impact on his family Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Ron Howard is honoring his mother ...

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So, with the absentee president being shielded from the public, or off on another long weekend in Delaware, the face of the administration became Karine Jean-Pierre in the final two-and-a-half ...

The moment will forever be seared in my memory. It was December 1, 2022, at President and Dr. Biden’s France state dinner. That evening was the first time the administration felt a dinner was ...

And with that, my mood is as empty as my glass. By Nicholas Lezard I write this a few days after Blue Monday, the third Monday of January, a marketing wheeze which says it is the most miserable day of ...

The teens accused of killing Kelyan Bokassa "must have known" he was on the bus, a court has heard. The 14-year-old died after he was stabbed around 27 times on the route 472 at Woolwich Church ...