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BBC: Queen Elizabeth II has Invested Millions in Offshore Accounts

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has invested millions in offshore accounts, according to the BBC.

The British media refers to reports as Paradise Papers released by the ICIJ based in Washington. During the period 2004-2005, money was invested in funds registered in the Cayman and Bermuda islands.

Nolan got personal to summon his miracle of 'Dunkirk'

History -- some of it intensely personal -- leant heavily on Christopher Nolan when he was making his wartime epic "Dunkirk," which rolls out in cinemas across the world from July 19.

The English-born director of the "Batman" movies had long dreamt of tackling the story of how a kind of victory was pulled from Britain's worst defeat of World War II.

Black-eyed mugshot of Lancaster County suspect gets national attention, disbelief

A police mug shot taken in Lancaster County, S.C., is drawing attention across the country for what appears to be a blond woman with black eyes.

The mug shot is of 24-year-old Morgan Joyce Varn, who faces charges of kidnapping, armed robbery and property damage in Lancaster County. She remained in the Lancaster County jail Friday without bond.

What happened to prisoners of war in Medieval England

Every medieval English monarch had to decide how to deal with prisoners of war. Ruling over territory that sometimes ran from the highlands of Scotland to the south of France, their authority rested on violence. Fighting the French, Scots, Welsh, Irish, or their own nobility in a string of civil wars, they could not have kept their throne without victories on the battlefield.

Two Turkish human smugglers arrested at port in New Jersey

Agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have raided a Turkish cargo ship in New Jersey, arresting the ship's first officer and chief engineer on human smuggling claims. 

First officer Özcan Köse, 36, and his brother Oğuz Köse, 35, will be tried in Pennsylvania after having been accused of taking 25,000 dollars each to engage in human smuggling.