The city said it would provide stewards for its statue of the folk song figure — and repair its bust, which has been damaged by excessive touching. By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from London In song ...

After a thorough search, the family found a sculptor in Kolkata who took nearly two years to complete the statue. It was brought home on Tuesday (April 2) and installed on a chair in their house.

The Tamil Nadu government will install a statue of German philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx in Chennai and also establish a memorial for All India Forward Bloc leader P K Mookiah ...

Let’s take a look at the politics of sculptural commissions plus a top ten of statues featuring women in the city of London. A set of 19th-century drawings by a teenage Queen Victoria will be put up ...

Captain Cook Memorial at Edinburgh Gardens was knocked ... Vandals attempted to cut the head off the statue of Captain Cook in Fitzroy Gardens in February. Picture: David Crosling The Captain ...

One of the lesser-known facts about Kolkata’s aviation history is its connection with the Victoria Memorial. During the early 1920s, when the stately building was yet to be completed, it was operated ...

A godson of the late Queen Elizabeth II has died after suffering a severe head injury at the age of 79. Lord Charles O’Hagan, whose full name was Charles Towneley Strachey O’Hagan, died at ...

Stewards are to be stationed next to a statue of Molly Malone in Dublin to discourage people from touching it. Dublin City Council is running a pilot scheme for a week in May after complaints of ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman shed new light on the power held by priestesses in the ancient city, which was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted ...

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as part of a funerary relief. Experts believe the couple depicted were of ...

Stewards have been brought in to protect a famous statue of Molly Malone in Dublin after complaints people were groping the sculpture’s breasts. Dublin’s City Council has taken the action and ...

This week marks the anniversary of the birth of Princess Victoria of Hesse, who was born on 5 April in 1863. Highly intellectual, she was said to be a keen reader and a ‘walking encyclopaedia’. She ...