Hundreds of Santorini residents were seen boarding a ferry to Athens in the early hours of Feb 4 after dozens of tremors shook the Greek island for a fourth day.

Ripley Castle, a 14th-century fortress in North Yorkshire, is on the market for ₹225 crore and boasts a haunting legacy of ...

A local club for all lovers of France, its language, culture, history and landscape. At our most recent meeting we heard how ...

The castle has been home of the Ingilby family since the 14th century – but Sir Thomas and Lady Ingilby have now listed the ...

Ripley Castle near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, is on the market for the first time in the family's 700-year history, but ...

The Gunpowder plot has become a nice, family friendly party night with bonfires and fireworks and an engraving that's safe enough to be shown on the tube. But this is not a safe story. Back in ...

Englishman Guy Fawkes, convicted of high treason for his part in the “Gunpowder Plot,” was set to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but broke his neck after falling ...

The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...

1953: A car ferry sinks in the Irish Sea in one of the worst gales of the winter, claiming the lives of up to 130 passengers and crew. On the same day, Isthmian League side Walthamstow Avenue draw 1-1 ...

Ripley Castle is a Grade I listed 14th-century country house, now up for sale for the first time in its history.

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland, freeing some 7,000 ...

What pushed Guy Fawkes over the edge? What pushed Guy Fawkes over the edge? What turned him from a radical who wanted change to an extremist willing to kill? Foreign correspondent Jason Burke has ...