Keep Britain Tidy has given the Blue Flag award to 72 beaches and two inland bathing spots this year - and you can check if your favourite seaside spot is on the list with our map ...

Montreal has added a white pine tree, a symbol of peace, to the centre of its coat of arms and city flag, in recognition of the contribution of Indigenous people to the city. It's also changing ...

A website built by two programmers, Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi, displays recent changes to Wikipedia in real-time on a map of the world. When a new change is saved to the crowd-sourced ...

The Jolly Roger’s presence on the conning tower of submarines goes back to 1914, at the beginning of World War I, when a British submarine, HMS E-9, commanded by Lt. Cmdr. Max Horton, sank the ...

Waving a Palestinian flag on British streets "may not be legitimate" if it is done to show support for acts of terrorism, the home secretary has told police chiefs.

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The Iranian flag has been hoisted over a seized British oil tanker in footage broadcast on the country's state TV. Stena Impero was seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the Strait of Hormuz on ...

By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans.

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On this day in 1777, an American flag flew in battle for the first time. This occurred during a Revolutionary War skirmish at Cooch’s Bridge, Del. Gen. William Maxwell, commanding a Patriot ...

Red flag warnings were also issued for all of southern New Mexico as well as West Texas. The NWS forecast office in El Paso said on Sunday that southwest winds up to 35 miles per hour, ...

An incredible map can help you work out where you are in the UK with the numbers that appear on motorway signs - with a bit of work. The allocation of numbers for A-roads is based on a so-called ...