Nitty-gritty meaning: the possible slave-trade origins of the phrase - and other terms that may have racist links ...

THE organisers of an upcoming tall ship visit say they have been ‘overwhelmed’ with the response from the public.

A tall ship trip was start of a lifelong connection to the Fair Isle jumper for Lynne Coleman. Now she is reinventing it in cashmere.

The statute justified the imprisonment in World War II of thousands like Heidi Gurcke Donald. She is horrified as Trump invokes it for mass deportation.

HMS Unicorn’s only sea voyage, in fact, was in 1873 when a paddle steamer towed it up to the Tay estuary in Dundee for its ...

Seattle's drawbridges, some a century old, still rely on alert operators to protect people on the roads and clear a passage ...

Some details remain untested for now, the most obvious being how close the Escalade IQ will be able to get to its claimed 460 ...

Parts of China’s space strategy might not seem directly tied to defense: plans for a joint Chinese-Russian lunar facility, a ...

From the gastronomic specialties of Sifnos to the enigmatic ruins of the Dodecanese, each Greek island has its own distinct ...

The United States was the major funder of tuberculosis programs. Now hundreds of thousands of sick patients can’t find tests ...

Our LA correspondent digs up the history of those monumental letters, and why the site has been a platform for political ...