In 1932, Madame Tussaud’s asked their younger visitors to choose from among the waxworks the individual they most wanted to be like when they grew up. The most popular answer was not the kind of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Samuel D. Riddle announced in the latter part of 1920 that his superb champion Man o’ War would not race as a 4-year-old, ...

Centenary of death of British nurse executed for treason in 1915 marked as evidence emerges of possible links to British intelligence On 12 October 1915, British nurse Edith Cavell was shot at dawn by ...

Commemorations are taking place in Britain and Belgium for Edith Cavell, a nurse shot by German soldiers on this day 100 years ago. Born in Swardeston near Norwich, in 1865, Ms Cavell trained as a ...

BRUSSELS – Belgium is commemorating the execution of British World War I nurse Edith Cavell by the German forces that occupied the country, lauding her outstanding contribution to humanity. Germany ...

An English war heroine executed by the Germans has been remembered in Salford on the 100th anniversary of her death. Nurse Edith Cavell was shot at dawn a century ago for helping British soldiers ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. Google is celebrating the birthday of a nurse who helped save the lives of hundreds of ...

It is surprising to read the biography of someone as famously brave and selfless as Edith Cavell and find no suggestion in her life before the age of 40 that there was anything exceptional about her.

The life of nurse Edith Cavell, the great heroine of the First World War, has been celebrated at two major events attended by the Princess Royal. Cavell worked in German-occupied Belgium, where she ...

Edith Cavell, a British nurse during WWI, was executed by firing squad for helping Allied soldiers to escape occupied Belgium Credit: Photo: Getty Images It remains one of the most shocking episodes ...

An English war heroine executed by the Germans has been remembered in Salford on the 100th anniversary of her death. Nurse Edith Cavell was shot at dawn a century ago for helping British soldiers ...