On Feb. 10, 1996, a computer -- IBM's Deep Blue -- won a game against world champion chess player Garry Kasparov.

Second World War reassessment of their ties to colonialism, evident in the Union Jack occupying the upper left quadrant of ...

1955 — Mike Souchak establishes the PGA 72-hole scoring record with a 257 at the Texas Open. Souchak starts with a ...

Great Britain are taking 53 athletes to the Games, with tentative predictions suggesting they expect four to eight medals to be won. The record at one Games is five, in both 2014 and 2018.

David Hockney has paid tribute to his carers in his latest paintings. The artist, 88, will exhibit portraits of his full-time carers at Serpentine North in central London later this year. Hockney, one ...

Eddie Harty, the Irish jockey, who has died aged 88, won the Grand National in 1969 on Highland Wedding, trained by Toby ...

For over half a century, each of the Big Three American car makers have had European branches building products that were either competitive or even dominant in their markets. If you’re a business ...

From Princess Anne to Zara Tindall, find the royals who've gone for gold on the world's stage. Find pictures of royals at ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics are about to start in Milan-Cortina as the sporting calendar continues to fill in the gaps before the beginning of the Formula 1 season. There are only two pre-season tests ...

Two long-running local film festivals launch their 2026 editions this week. Also in theaters: the lovely "Arco." ...

The Online World Is Also on Fire,” which Loren Goldner wrote in 1995, falls into the latter category. Subtitled “How the Sixties Marginalized Literature in American Culture (and Why Literature Mainly ...