Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to ...

"Somehow our house survived. We got singed a little bit on the garage but we almost, but we almost, almost," he told the crowd, later revealing he has survived five fires, most notably in 1961.

The captain of the Solong cargo ship, that collided with US oil tanker Stena Immaculate on Monday, has been arrested, the owner of the vessel told the BBC. It comes after Humberside Police said a ...