Professor Daisy Hay, a biographer and expert in 18th and 19th-century British literature, has been elected to the Council of the Royal Society of L ...

Met Éireann forecasts extremely destructive gusts in excess of 130km/h with many schools and workplaces set to close ...

Projected weather maps by WXCharts.com display gusts that could result in power outages, travel chaos, and structural damage ...

Following his re-inauguration, Donald Trump will face the central moral question posed by Lord of the Rings. Generations after his death, J.R.R. Tolkien's quandary will again confront a gre ...

Jimmy Carter was elected President in a patriotic year. It was 1976, the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence ...

The collection features two postcards from fantasy writer JRR Tolkien as well. “Thank you for your specimen facsimile, and for your kindness in thinking of me,” he says in one of the postcards ...

On Thursday, Jan. 16, the NBA revealed the third and final fan-vote returns for the Feb. 16 game. Fan voting for this year's All-Star Game began on Dec. 19, 2024, and runs through Monday ...

BUCHAREST, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Romania's coalition government approved on Thursday a re-run of a two-round presidential election on May 4 and May 18 as previously agreed, and tightened campaign ...

PARIS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou passed the first test of his new minority government on Thursday as he survived a vote of no-confidence called by the hard left ...

In Italy, questions swirl around a possible deal between Elon Musk's Space X company and the far-right government.

Other literary figures who have been commemorated on 2-pound coins include William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Croatia’s opposition-backed President Zoran Milanovic, a critic of the European Union and NATO, has overwhelmingly won re-election for another five-year term, according to official results.