The British Museum is partially closed to the public after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems.

It was a life that took him from peanut farming to the presidency.

The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of a sub-atomic particle that came to be known as the Higgs boson, has died at 94.

The British Museum has appointed Nicholas Cullinan as its new director.

The British Museum is suing a former curator alleged to have stolen hundreds of artifacts from its collections and offered them for sale online.