March 31, 1889. Designed by Gustave Eiffel, the tower was completed under budget in less than two years. Eiffel's design was chosen among more than 100 others. The structure was meant to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution. At the time of its opening, it was the tallest man-made structure in the world. Eiffel faced design skepticism and criticism.
"'I’m so angry,' my second sister said, visibly shaking. 'I’m not kidding, I’m mad.' Our parents had been cruelest to her."
This is the moment a policeman knocked a “goading” teenager with more than 40 previous convictions off his e-bike with his patrol car.
"I understand now how Hitler rose to power. I feel like I'm screaming, and nobody is listening."
Democratic Rep. Val Hoyle condemned Donald Trump's billionaire buddy with an explosive metaphor.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business leaders that U.S. President Donald Trump’s interest in annexing Canada was a very real plan aimed at controlling the country’s vast mineral resources. Trudeau was caught on a hot mic giving his assessment of Trump’s treat to takeover America’s northern neighbor. “I suggest that not only does the Trump administration know how many critical minerals we have but that may be even why they keep talking about absorbing us and making us the 51st stat
This species could be the poster child for conservation on a warming planet.
When we make love, I’m savouring every inch of the beautiful body tangled up with mine. The way his shoulders look; his wrists and hands… his lovely throat. “Remember this,” I tell myself. Every moment, every detail. I feel like I’m not just appreciating his body but inhabiting my own in a way I’ve never done before.
As a young Royal Marine, Jamie Michael served in the Iraq War and two tours as a peacekeeper in Sierra Leone.
Greece's Prince Nikolaos married Chrysí Vardinogiánni in Athens on 7 February - see first photos of the royal bride's wedding dress.
Armed police arrested three men as a weapons incident put a school near Banbury into lockdown.
In an open letter, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is told Sergeant Lino Di Maria must be sacked
Thursday’s bipartisan National Prayer Breakfast, where President Donald Trump affirmed he now “much more strongly” believes in God, went off the rails once lawmakers closed their Bibles and opened their social media accounts. Republicans are hammering Rep. Jared Huffman, a Democrat from California’s North Coast, over his accusation that Speaker Mike Johnson eroded the separation of church and state by moving the mostly Christian gathering to the Capitol. “Speaker Johnson’s National Prayer Breakf
The Chase viewers were left fuming after a contestant shocked everyone by taking a controversial low offer.
Netflix's new true crime drama has viewers hooked, with fans admitting they 'can't sleep' until they finish the series.
A Russian singer who called Vladimir Putin an “idiot” and allegedly donated to the Ukrainian military has died after falling from the window of his 10th-floor apartment, according to reports.
A former four-star Coast Guard admiral was forced to leave behind most of her belongings after the Trump administration gave her just three hours to vacate her home on Tuesday, according to NBC News. Linda Fagan, an ex-Coast Guard commandant who was also the first female leader of a military branch, was evicted from her home at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling by the Department of Homeland Security after she was fired by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day. A Homeland Security official confir
More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said.
Just months ago, Trump was crowing about being named the magazine’s 2024 Person of the Year
Amelia Dimoldenberg attended the Vanity Fair EE BAFTA 2025 Rising Star party in a 16Arlington SS25 white and black dress with a plunging neckline and leg slit.
The Sealion, Seagull and Dolphin. No, this is not the title of an unpublished children’s book. This selection of aquatic creatures is a range of car models poised to surge in sales this year.
