A British University student, 22-year-old Alby Shale, on Tuesday set a world record by batting at the nets for 26 hours. The Newcastle University student, an amateur cricketer and sportsman, beat Australian Jade Child’s 25-hour record set in October last year for the longest ever individual cricket net.

British contemporary art collector and ad guru Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson, the celebrity television chef, have decided not to make any financial claims against each other in their divorce proceedings.

British author J.K. Rowling, famous for her seven-book Harry Potter series, was on Sunday unmasked as the writer of a crime thriller published in April under a male pseudonym. The Cuckoo’s Calling, about a war veteran-turned-private investigator called Cormoran Strike, was released by the Little, Brown publishing group in April.

The royal baby frenzy got a boost on Saturday, the day which was chosen by the media as the possible due date of Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge.

Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation anniversary celebrations in the Buckingham Palace have the feel of a country fair, or rather a posh version of Indian mela, with food, drinks, dance, music and an array of things on sale.

Britons are indulging in last-minute betting as they wait for the imminent birth of the royal baby, first child of Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.

Irish-born Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett’s manuscript was sold for almost £1 million at an auction in London on Wednesday. The manuscript, which had been held privately, was sold to a British university.

A long-forgotten childhood encounter with a half-eaten corpse of a woman lying in the Hooghly led Indian-born writer and arts aficionado Glen Peters to create an Anglo-Indian female detective living in the 1960s.

Earth may have had two moons — one visible today and the other a smaller twin, according to scientists.

Polo matches are not just about the sport – the formal informality of the event is an attraction for royalty, nobility, cash-rich billionaires, fashionistas, cavalry officers and sponsors Select guests, including European and Indian royalty, cooled off with copious amounts of champagne.