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Leena Nair, CEO of Chanel, poses with her medal after being appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire during an Investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on June 11, 2025.

A British Red Cross volunteer from Epsom who has spent 40 years with the organisation has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the King’s Birthday Honours. Jon Richards, 61, followed in his ...

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Long before India gained independence, one defiant voice inside the British Empire dared to call out a colonial massacre - and paid a price for it. Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair, a lawyer, was one of ...

Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire Sir Ian Dudson said: “Since the British Empire Medal was reintroduced in 2012 to mark our late Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, it has become a ...

The British F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter jet, which made an unscheduled landing in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on Saturday night, remains grounded for the fourth ...

Nobody really refers to it as an "empire" anymore, but in addition to Britain and Northern Ireland, the U.K. still controls territories including "Gibraltar, Bermuda, numerous Caribbean islands ...