HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters) - Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is ...

The death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday has ended a 70-year reign that saw the fall of the British empire and the introduction of the Commonwealth of Nations.

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

Lord Melchett, a member of the Jewish Agency Council for Palestine, the Jewish organization including Zionists and non-Zionists recently formed, was received this afternoon by the British Colonial ...

The U.K. on Thursday finally agreed to pay compensation to thousands of victims of horrific torture during the British colonial rule in Kenya in the 1950s. Nearly 50 years after Kenya became ...

Should we call him King Charles, or maybe DJ Royal Chuck? King Charles III has launched an Apple Music playlist of his favorite songs. It dropped today for Commonwealth Day, which is celebrated among ...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II and the ensuing media frenzy have ricocheted globally — and not just because of the general fanfare the royal family instigates. People from nations around the world ...

The Palm Beach Architectural Commission said the house was a finely detailed example of the British Colonial style. The unanimous vote to approve the design was notable because commissioners were ...

British soldiers with objects looted from the royal palace during the military expedition to Benin City in 1897 (via Wikimedia Commons) Melancholy, Paul Gilroy once argued, is a common reaction to ...

The first option was to let the colonies go. The second was to unify the American colonies with Britain the way Scotland had been united with England. Smith himself was Scottish and, looking back, was ...

‘Palestine 36’ is a potent reminder that the blueprint for Israel's depraved war crimes in Gaza were laid down by a British empire whose tyranny the Palestinians tried - and failed - to end A scene ...