The mythical sword of Excalibur must be one of the most famous objects in history.
Owned by King Arthur, the legendary British leader of the 5th and 6th centuries, it was endowed with ‘magical’ powers that made him such a formidable warrior.
As the legend goes, it was thrown into a lake by King Arthur as he lay dying, following his final battle somewhere in Britain.
Now, experts are on an ambitious quest to locate the object in British waters
In her final moments with her dying son, Sheila Blanco placed her head on his chest and made a vow.
‘It was my last promise to him,’ she recalls. ‘I said I would find out what happened at any cost.’
She little envisaged how gruelling that quest would be – and how hard it would be to fulfil it. For while Sheila has long had a very good idea of what happened in her Cambridge-educated son Mark’s last moments, she
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During my 10 years as a Moscow-based journalist, I struggled to imagine how and when I would eventually leave Russia.
Half Russian myself, I had moved there in 2013, keen to learn more and report on a country that I felt was often misunderstood by many in the West.
In the end, the decision was made for me last month when a representative of Russia’s foreign ministry called to
Riley Keough has finally spoken out about her bitter feud with grandma Priscilla Presley over her late mother Lisa Marie’s multi-million-dollar estate – insisting that things ‘will be happy again’ between their pair after their lengthy legal battle was resolved.
Earlier this month, the 34-year-old actress and model was named as the sole trustee of her late mom’s estate – which includes ownership of Graceland – after reportedly agreeing to pay her grandmother $1 million, as well as $400,000 in
Wrexham fans on social media called for Hugh Jackman to be banned from the Racecourse in the future after the X-Men star was in attendance for their return to the Football League, only for Phil Parkinson’s side to lose 5-3 against MK Dons. Expectations were high as the Hollywood-backed club competed at EFL level for the first time in 15 years, but were handed a major reality check on the opening day of the season.
A brace from Jonathan Leko
After a record six-year gap following Timothy Dalton’s Licence To Kill, Pierce Brosnan’s GoldenEye – which is on ITV this afternoon – rebooted the James Bond franchise for a post-Cold War world.
The 007 movie’s femme fatale was set to be Xenia Onatopp, a Georgian fighter pilot and henchwoman to Sean Bean’s villain Alec Trevelyan.
In 1994, Courteney Cox was offered the role but turned it down due to her scheduling conflicts filming Friends.
Yet it wasn’t long before GoldenEye
Hunter Biden told his longtime friend and business partner, Devon Archer, that they would get the “last laugh” after Archer said a judge threw out his conviction, according to 2018 text messages reviewed by Fox News Digital.
Archer, who is set to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Monday and is reportedly preparing to tell lawmakers about President Biden’s interactions with dozens of Hunter’s business associates while he was vice president, informed Hunter Biden in a November 2018 text
Concertgoers keep throwing things at musicians mid-performance — but Tim McGraw isn’t too concerned about personal safety on his upcoming tour.
“Hopefully I’m still spry, and hope I can dodge and duck and leap,” the country superstar, 56, told Entertainment Tonight on Friday, July 28, when asked whether he plans to take extra precautions.
While McGraw said he won’t use additional security measures on the road, he didn’t hesitate to condemn the recent spate of object-throwing
Prince Harry’s phone-hacking claims against a UK publisher were thrown out Thursday.
A judge also dismissed the Duke of Sussex’s claim that there was a “secret agreement” between Buckingham Palace and the press, calling the alleged arrangement implausible, according to the Daily Mail.
In his ruling, the judge said Harry’s case had “not reached the necessary threshold of plausibility and cogency.”
The Sun’s publisher celebrated the ruling as “a significant victory.”
The head of a New York City firefighters’ union has attacked Bill de Blasio for not giving his members enough time to decide whether to get vaccinated or not, accusing the mayor of turning his back on the city’s essential workers.
Around 2,300 firefighters were off work on Monday, as a rule enforcing COVID vaccination. Monday’s deadline applied to all municipal workers, ranging from police officers to parks employees.
It was the latest vaccine mandate to be imposed by the
