Irish Republican Army

DiedOf a heart attack while playing tennis, Norris McWhirter, 78, who in 1954 compiled the first Guinness World Records with his twin brother, Ross. The McWhirters, sons of a British newspaper editor who brought home...

Sing Sing, known formally as the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, in Ossining, N.Y., wouldn't be everybody's choice of a place to watch the World Series on TV—or anything else, I suppose. In one respect, though, I...

Mrs. Richard Burton, that Elizabeth more British than the Queen, arrived in London with dark glasses hiding a black eye and a plaster stuck to her white-marble forehead. "I had a bit of an accident in Switzerland,"...