Ticket machine at Carnforth Station (Image: Getty) Plans to shut nearly all England’s remaining train station ticket offices are another example of age discrimination in the UK, campaigners have warned. The Rail Delivery Group unveiled proposals earlier this month that could lead
C.R. Roberts, whose record-setting performance helped Southern California beat Texas in a 1956 road game played in the segregated state, has died. He was 87. Roberts died of natural causes on Tuesday at a care facility in suburban Norwalk, the university said
Migrants will soon be subject to age tests, the Government has announced, after a 41-year-old man posed as a child to claim asylum in the UK. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has told MPs that officials will carry out medical assessments when people
Georgetown University mascot Jack the Bulldog died at the age of four, the school announced on Monday. “With a heavy heart, we share the sad news that our beloved Jack the Bulldog has gone over the Rainbow Bridge after a brief illness,”
Gilbert Stuart, who created portraits of key figures of the American Revolution and in early U.S. history, died on this day in history on July 9, 1828. Gilbert’s distinctive portrait style remains the way that modern Americans view many of the Founding
Former North Carolina State and Furman coach Dick Sheridan, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, died Thursday. He was 81. Sheridan died at Grand Strand Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, his son, Jon, told Furman athletic department spokesman Hunter
The tourist who was seen etching his name on a brick wall of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy has apologized for his actions, a letter shows. United Kingdom resident Ivan Danailov Dimitrov, 31, was caught defacing the ancient building in a video
Peter Hellyer, a U.K.-born writer who spent nearly five decades chronicling the history, natural beauty and modern transformation of the United Arab Emirates, has died peacefully at the age of 75, local media reported Monday. Hellyer, who was granted UAE citizenship and
Olivia Dunne dished on the viral moment from the College Baseball World Series last month in which the broadcast caught the collegiate gymnastics star signing an autograph for a grown man. Dunne was asked about the moment in the latest episode of
World’s largest crocodile in captivity could be 120 years old Cassius, who arrived at the Marineland Melanesia Crocodile Habitat in 1987 has been estimated to have possibly lived for 120 years and could live for years to come, according to animal experts.