“Blimey,” a British football pundit might exclaim as a player scores a goal from halfway down the pitch, “what are the chances of that?” And blimey, what are the chances of Manchester’s and Britain’s two most famous — …
Angela Merkel didn’t just win Germany’s Sept. 22 parliamentary elections — she triumphed. Her Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, emerged strengthened, by far the largest bloc …
In Germany’s election, the voters have spoken. We just don’t yet know exactly what they’ve said
While trying to help stall Bashar Assad, it’s David Cameron who stands to lose power
Update, 5:50 p.m. ET: British Prime Minister David Cameron lost a vote endorsing military action in Syria 285-272.
When David Cameron summoned MPs back to Westminster today to debate the Syrian crisis, it was not because the …
Sixteen years after her car crash in Paris, there’s another round of speculation that the Princess’s death was no accident. Don’t believe it
Updated August 4, 04:40 a.m. EST: In response to these threats, Twitter has amended its policies and the company says it will put extra staff in place to handle reports of abuse, which from next month may be logged across all platforms via an “in-tweet” report button, enabling Twitter users to report abusive behavior directly from a …
Correction appended: July 24, 2013
Raucous celebrations outside Buckingham Palace and the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital in Paddington extended into the balmy night, long after the announcement that the Duchess of Cambridge had
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Britons are champions—champion sunbathers—programmed by an uncertain climate to seize every rare opportunity to roast themselves scarlet. But though Sunday served up the most perfect day of a damp summer, London‘s parks and
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If a certain baby is even dimly aware of the global attention already trained on his or her arrival, he or she might well be tempted to linger in the privacy of the womb. Palace officials say the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge …
The British media culture he helped shape is doing him few favors as he deals with divorce proceedings
A British Gitmo? Camp Bastion, a vast expanse of prefabricated buildings and razor wire, is the operating base for almost 30,000 British troops in Afghanistan. It is also a holding facility for Afghan prisoners
