In 1978, a song about a little-known pub band quietly transformed Dire Straits into international stars. "Sultans of Swing" ...

Rock, folk and roots, blues, jazz and country are among the diverse music on offer at the Milton Rooms in Malton in the next few weeks. The Steelers bring the music of Steely Dan, Honey & The Bear are ...

The Straits of Malacca links the Indian and Pacific Oceans through a channel just 2.7km at its tightest point, more than 10 times narrower than Hormuz. (Gambar AFP) The Iranian and US blockades of the ...

RECENT events have given a new twist to history. A Chicago-born pontiff from Rome has publicly rebuked an American Christian crusader. Normally, popes issue insipid encyclicals or harmless homilies.

Straits are critical areas of the world where both land and ocean meet together to form a connection between two huge bodies of water. These waterways are examples of chokepoints for global shipping ...

When Dire Straits released Brothers In Arms in 1985, it was kind of a big deal. Not because it was the first album to be certified ten times platinum in the UK and spent 14 non-consecutive weeks at ...

VIVIAN Balarkrishnan, foreign minister of Singapore, could not be any clearer: Singapore was not going to negotiate with Iran for the safe passage of its vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. It was ...

Iran understands that the future of warfare lies in many thousands of low-cost, independent, and attritable systems. Does America? There’s an old line from Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” that says, ...

Dire Straits made the transformation from pub rock strivers to pop superstars during the course of their time together. The one constant was the brilliant songwriting of their lead singer and ...

Dire Straits‘ Mark Knopfler always had a deep affinity for country music, citing legends like Willie Nelson and the pedal steel guitar work of Jerry Byrd and Paul Franklin, who worked on the band’s ...

A newly discovered ransomware group dubbed "Dire Wolf" has already taken a bite out of 16 organizations globally since its emergence only last month, mainly across the technology and manufacturing ...

The Hawaii Department of Health on Thursday issued Straits Hawaii at Ward Village a red placard due to several violations, shutting it down until the infractions are addressed. The placard was issued ...