Author: Jill Lawless
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Picasso, Monet works up for auction in Rockefeller art trove
LONDON — An art collection amassed by billionaire David Rockefeller could raise more than $500 million for charity when it is auctioned this spring. Auctioneer Christie’s is selling hundreds of artworks including major paintings by Claude Monet, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, from the collection of the oil-family scion and his wife Peggy. Rockefeller, grandson of…
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DNA suggests 10,000-year-old Brit had dark skin, blue eyes
LONDON — DNA from a 10,000-year-old skeleton found in an English cave suggests the oldest-known Briton had dark skin and blue eyes, researchers said Wednesday. Scientists from Britain’s Natural History Museum and University College London analyzed the genome of “Cheddar Man,” who was found in Cheddar Gorge in southwest England in 1903. Scientists led by…
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UK police say death of Dolores O’Riordan is not suspicious
LONDON — The death of Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan is not being treated as suspicious, British police said Tuesday. A friend said the singer sounded excited and “full of life” just hours before her death. O’Riordan was found dead Monday morning at a London hotel. Police initially said the death was “unexplained,” but on…
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Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan dies suddenly
LONDON — Dolores O’Riordan, whose urgent, powerful voice helped make Irish rock band The Cranberries a global success in the 1990s, died suddenly on Monday at a London hotel. She was 46. The singer-songwriter’s publicist, Lindsey Holmes, confirmed that O’Riordan died in London, where she was recording, “No further details are available at this time,”…
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Trump tweets strain US-Britain ‘special relationship’
LONDON — A few days after his inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump stood beside British Prime Minister Theresa May in the White House and proclaimed the strength of the “most special relationship” between their two countries. Ten months later, that relationship looks decidedly strained. As May and Trump traded criticism Thursday over his retweets of…
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Spring wedding at Windsor Castle for Prince Harry and Markle
LONDON — It will be a spring wedding on the glorious grounds of Windsor Castle for love-struck Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Royal officials — thrilled with the international response to news of the couple’s engagement, and the positive reaction to their first ever TV appearance — revealed a few key details Tuesday but kept…
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Famed London theater received 20 allegations against Spacey
LONDON — London’s Old Vic theater said Thursday it has received 20 allegations of actions that spanned “a range of inappropriate behavior” against Kevin Spacey, its former artistic director. The allegations cover interactions between 1995 and 2013, and all of them deal with men. The reported incidents range from behavior that made people feel uncomfortable…
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Police: Car crash in London is traffic accident, not terror
LONDON — A car crash that injured 11 people Saturday outside London’s popular Natural History Museum was a traffic accident, not a terrorist attack, London police said. The accident had sparked fears of an attack because it involved a car hitting pedestrians at a crowded site favored by tourists to the British capital. A massive…
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UK threat level raised to “critical” after subway bombing
LONDON — A homemade bomb planted in a rush-hour subway car exploded in London on Friday, injuring 29 people and prompting authorities to raise Britain’s terrorism threat level to “critical,” meaning another attack may be imminent. The early morning blast sparked a huge manhunt for the perpetrators of what police said was the fourth terrorist…
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British model’s kidnapping story gets even stranger
MILAN — A British model who says she was kidnapped in Italy broke down when investigators confronted her with a witness statement that she had been seen shopping for shoes with an alleged captor, according to court documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. Chloe Ayling initially told Milan police she was held, at times…