The Official UK Singles Chart reflects the UK’s biggest songs of the week, based on audio and video streams, downloads, CDs and vinyl, compiled by the Official Charts Company. The UK Top 40 is ...

The 1960s were a decade of great technological development, as space travel and global communications became a reality. In 1962 The Queen's Christmas Broadcast referred to recent successes in space, ...

Annual estimates of UK regional gross value added, income approach (GVA(I)) for NUTS1, NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions. Current basic prices, growths and per head indices. These tables show gross value added ...

In June 1962, Frank Lee Morris and fellow inmates Clarence and John Anglin pulled off one of the most famous prison escapes in history. They broke out of Alcatraz, the notorious, high-security prison ...

The Gist: Barbie opens with an utterly nuts homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey, narrated by Helen Mirren. It shows us little girls smashing baby dolls as Mirren ruminates on the very idea of dollhood ...

The 4 Seasons Last week Weeks at no. 1 Weeks on chart Vee-Jay Week of December 15, 1962 click to see more Vee-Jay RCA Victor ...

The Barbie doll is one of the most recognizable toys in the world, and it’s all thanks to a woman named Ruth Handler. In 1959, when Handler introduced Barbie, the toy quickly took the world by storm.

“Gerwig delights in the richness and weirdness of her material in this clever send-up of Barbie dolls and their fraught legacy. It’s impressive how much the director, known for her shrewd and ...

Barbie was officially born on March 9, 1959, when she launched at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Mattel’s co-creator, Ruth Handler, became inspired to create a 3D doll that could ...

The 2012 piece from the Times archives examines the 1962 Sino-Indian war’s impact, exposing leadership flaws, strategic missteps, and internal divisions. Despite humiliation, the war catalysed ...

People around the world are currently obsessed with Barbie, with the film of the same name proving to be a box office hit. But one Derbyshire woman was on the bandwagon way before the resurgence ...