American pop star Rihanna on Wednesday won her legal battle in UK high court against fashion retailer Topshop, owned by billionaire entrepreneur Sir Philip Green, over T-shirts bearing her image.

British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who turned 71 this January, was so ill in 1985 that doctors offered to turn off his life support machine, a new documentary film on the world-renowned scientist revealed Sunday.

The excitement of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation 60 years ago in the royal family has been revealed in private home movies on display at the Buckingham Palace as part of the Queen’s Coronation Exhibition, starting on Saturday at Buckingham Palace to coincide with the summer opening of the state rooms in the palace.

England batsman Joe Root’s sketch of fellow teammate Monty Panesar has attracted the highest bid as sketch portraits drawn by England cricket team went on auction for charity on eBay on Friday morning.

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Indian-origin Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri’s new book, The Lowland, was on Tuesday “longlisted” for this year’s Booker Prize.

Indian-born woman Sant Kaur Bajwa, who was the UK’s oldest person, has died at the age of 115 years and 199 days.

Royal one-upmanship in colonial India was not limited to romantic intrigues and loyalty to the British crown.

Britain’s top actors joined Scotland Yard in issuing an appeal for information about British actor of Indian origin, 53-year-old Paul Bhattacharjee, who has been missing from London since July 10.

India is finally getting presence on the international auctions map as Christie’s announced on Tuesday that it will hold the inaugural sale in Mumbai in December.