1982: Pope John Paul II addresses more than 30,000 people at Cardiff City’s Ninian Park ground. 1985: English clubs are banned from playing in Europe indefinitely after the riot at Brussels’ Heysel ...

He described the humanitarian effort as “in an operational strait-jacket”, calling it “one of the most obstructed aid operations not only in the world today, but in recent history”.

You owe your dad a lot. So much, in fact, that it’s tough to get him a gift for Father’s Day. He’s done so much that anything feels a bit small in return. So when it comes to giving your dad a present ...

No Jacket Required earned three Grammy Awards ... Jeff Corey The historical significance of Dire Straits’ fifth LP stretches further than the music. As one of the first albums to be digitally ...

Mark Knopfler and John Illsley have differing memories of the creation of Dire Straits’ most successful album. “It was like any other album,” says the former frontman and songwriter Knopfler ...

Dire Straits became a byword for a certain sort of safe, homogenised music, and Knopfler was turned into a caricature of the middle-aged rocker, with jacket sleeves rolled up and wearing a headband.

in large part due to a power play that is in dire straits. They built an early 2-0 lead and gave the Blue Jackets no quarter at five-on-five, but things started to go wrong as soon as Damon ...

It's been four decades since Dire Straits, Phil Collins and Sting ruled the radio and record stores with multi-platinum albums like Brothers in Arms, No Jacket Required and The Dream of the Blue ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Dire Straits were the biggest-selling British band of the 1980s ... He arrived alone, a few minutes early, having walked from his manager’s office, wearing a thick jacket and woolly beanie hat that ...

The Dire Straits frontman offloaded 120 axes and amps, auctioned Wednesday (Jan. 31) at Christie's in London. By Lars Brandle An impressive collection of Mark Knopfler’s guitars and amps went ...