When the British Empire was at its peak, its dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories spanned a quarter of the globe. 20% of the entire population of planet Earth lived ...
When the British Empire was at its peak, it is said that ‘the sun never sets on the British Empire’. The figurative expression meant that the empire of the British was so big that there was always ...
Shares of BP are down over 2% today, on continuing worries over the cost of cleanup of the Gulf oil leak. While progress has been made in capping the leak, oil continues to gush out from the base of ...