There have been two recent deaths of writers who did very different things in their work and that I encountered at two very ...

Spain plans to build a CATOBAR aircraft carrier and convert current ships for drones, but defense budget constraints cast ...

A quiet pub, a glass of red wine and a crossword: tokens of a complex man whose thrilling stories and humble nature left an ...

The bottom line of the whole sequence is that France has lost its diplomatic influence in the Middle East Since the 1960s, French diplomacy had followed the tradition of President Charles de Gaulle ..

Two years later, Pauline and her friend Sheila, eager to travel the world, got summer jobs as au pairs in Hope Ranch. She then returned to London and married Alain, her French lover, a newspaperman.

Schmoozing with figures from Hitler to JFK, the glamorous but polarising sisters sparked scandals that rocked UK high society ...

About two years ago I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I've known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of ...

On Saturday China's Ambassador to France Lu Shaye and two bus-loads of guests paid tribute to General Charles de Gaulle at Colombeyles-Deux-Eglises, 250 kilometers east of Paris, where he is buried.

One of the best pours of Champagne I’ve ever had is dwindling perilously close to empty at the end of an exploratory tour and tasting through the Billecart-Salmon range. Conducted in a private room ...

Ro Reddick’s music-infused comedy, set during the Cold War, finishes this year’s edition of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

The United Nations peacekeeping chief has warned that the conflict in Sudan is spilling across its southwest border into ...