Britain

A brick building partially destroyed by fire, with a blackened wall and smoke still rising. Several people stand nearby, observing the scene, and a man in the foreground holds a hose, indicating efforts to extinguish the fire.
Details emerge about strike on sports complex in southern Iran that killed children
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NHS blood scandal in the UK
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A cyclist is shown rides up a nearly empty three lanes of 7th Avenue with the Freedom Tower in the distance.
COVID-19
Car crashes deadlier as drivers speed during lockdowns
Police officers on patrol during the Notting Hill Carnival in London. Photo taken on August 27, 2018.
An American newspaper asked Brits for petty crime stories. They got classic snark back.
Yusra, played by Rhianna Merralls, struggles to fall asleep in the play, "Wherever I Lay My Head," performed in London City Hall.
Chronic insomnia plagues young migrants long after they reach their destination
How N.R.A. Fundraising Shapes the Political Landscape
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Arts, Culture & Media
Opium Lit
Arts, Culture & Media
Keep Calm and Cary Grant
A rig (L) surrounds the top of one of the chimneys of Battersea Power Station as demolition work is carried out, in London, Oct. 2, 2014.
Economics
Why the UK has an easier time than the US divorcing from coal
Actor Kevin Spacey at the premiere of Netflix's television series "House of Cards" at Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center
Culture
Netflix dumps Kevin Spacey, police home in on Harvey Weinstein
Facebook logo with the Russian flag
Global Politics
Britain asks Facebook for information about suspected Russian influence in Brexit
Author Kazuo Ishiguro poses for the media outside his home, following the announcement that he has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, in London, Britain, on Oct. 5, 2017.
Books
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Literature Prize
A sign for an electric car charging station at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
Economics
The UK joins a move to ban gas and diesel cars by 2040
zombies in spain
Arts
A world zombified by George A. Romero
Orangemen march down Conway Street, off Shankill Road, in Belfast.
Culture
What the UK’s new power deal means in the DUP’s Belfast heartland
A protester outside Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall. Anger has been growing over the authorities' handling of the tragedy at Grenfell Tower.
Culture
Protesters storm town hall as anger grows over London fire
Extensive damage is seen to the Grenfell Tower block which was destroyed in a fire disaster, in north Kensington, West London.
Economics
Desire to make London’s Grenfell Tower ‘prettier’ likely escalated the blaze
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Global Politics
Merkel warns that the US and Britain are no longer reliable partners
A British Airways passenger plane preparing to land at Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport in London
Economics
British Airways cancels all flights out of London after IT failure
An archbishop's mitre rests on its owner's ancient lead coffin in a forgotten tomb in London
Culture
Secret crypt in London: Beware of exploding bishops
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to the media outside 10 Downing Street, in London
Global Politics
The UK prime minister calls early elections — for just seven weeks from now
At the Camlough Cattle Mart, which serves Crossmaglen. Farmers are worried how competitive their beef will be in a post-Brexit world.
Economics
Farmers in Northern Ireland know Brexit will be bad for them — they just don’t know how bad
Darren Grimes, a young Brexit campaigner, making political calls.
Economics
This young, LGBT advocate isn’t your average Brexiteer
Unite for Europe march
Business, Finance & Economics
Tens of thousands march against Brexit on the EU’s 60th anniversary
A woman in Trafalgar Square weeps at a vigil for victims of the London terrorist attack
Conflict
London comes together to remember its victims
Laptops and other devices larger than cellphones are banned for direct US- and UK-bound flights from certain airports.
Conflict
The new carry-on device ban is reportedly about al-Qaeda and ISIS bombs
The British Union Flag, right, and a Scottish Saltire flag fly above the Scottish Office in Whitehall, with the London Eye wheel seen behind, in London.
Global Politics
Scotland’s leader wants another independence vote before Brexit
Britain's rules on minimum incomes for international couples have been criticized for ignoring the welfare of children.
Justice
If you’re poor and British, best not to marry a foreigner
Noor Inayat Khan, in the uniform of the British Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, 1943
Conflict
The Indian spy princess who died fighting the Nazis
Bob Bradley during his first game as a Premier League manager, Arsenal v Swansea City, Emirates Stadium in London. October 15, 2016.
Sports
This American soccer coach was criticized for being too American
In this photo, migrant families had just crossed the border from Serbia to Croatia, on Sept. 24, 2015.
Election 2016
Trump’s new ad plays on Europe’s refugee crisis — and the videographer is fuming
Dino brain
Science
That’s not a pebble. It’s a fossilized dinosaur brain.
Fabric Nightclub
Arts
London partiers are mourning Fabric nightclub, shut for its ‘culture of drug use’
Brexit-EU
Rule Britannia
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A modern mural commemorating the Cable Street riot
Global Politics
Britain remembers a massive riot against fascism in London in 1936
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May (R) review the honour guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany July 20, 2016.
Global Politics
Lots to discuss between Britain and Germany, but no Brexit talk yet
Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May speaks during her Conservative party leadership campaign at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Birmingham, England, on July 11.
Global Politics
Theresa May is about to become Britain’s next prime minister
The coffin of Lance Corporal Shaun Brierley, of Britain's 212 Signal Squadron, who was killed on duty in the Gulf on March 30, is carried from a Boeing C-17 aircraft at RAF Brize Norton in Oxforshire, Britain, April 8, 2003.
Conflict
For parents of a fallen British soldier, long-simmering rage after a report condemning the Iraq War
Brexit beer
Virtual beer and Brexit chat with European friends
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Jean-Claude Juncker welcomes Nigel Farage
Global Politics
From Brussels, Brexit looks a lot like Kabuki theater
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage poses during a media launch for an EU referendum poster in London on June 16.
Global Politics
How the Brexit campaign used refugees to scare voters
trump
Economics
Obama, Clinton and Trump weigh in on the ‘special relationship’ with the UK
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange before the opening bell, June 24, 2016.
Economics
Explainer: The Brexit aftermath, in charts
Donald Trump at a media event on the site of his golf resort, near Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2010.
Business
In Scotland, Trump faces Brexit, protests and a Mexican flag
Re-enactors portraying Roman soldiers of the first century.
Global Politics
Britain’s first ‘Brexit’: 286 A.D. It didn’t last long.
Curry dishes at Camden Lock in London.
Business
Should the UK leave Europe? There’s a curry angle.
Tributes in memory of murdered Labour Party MP Jo Cox, who was shot dead in Birstall, are left at Parliament Square in London,
Global Politics
Will the murder of an idealistic, young British MP swing the EU membership vote?
British parliamentarian Jo Cox, seen here in May 2005, is a supporter of the UK remaining in the European Union.
Conflict
Pro-EU British lawmaker fatally shot; Brexit campaign suspended
A Brexit supporter holds a Union Flag at a ‘Vote Leave’ rally in London
Economics
‘Should I stay or should I go now?’ Brits mull the fate of their European experiment
A flotilla of fishing vessels campaigning to leave the European Union sails up the river Thames in London on June 15.
Economics
British referendum campaigners are facing off in the river. And their music rocks.
The Lorenz teleprinter which was found languishing in a shed in England. The National Museum  of Computing at Bletchley Park bought it for $14
Science
Veterans will finally see the Nazi encryption machine they cracked in World War II
European Union and the British Union flags fly outside Europe House in London, November 10, 2015.
Global Politics
These women in the UK want to make EU exit debate more hip
Leicester City's Riyad Mahrez crashes into Swansea's Lukasz Fabianski on the pitch.
Sports
How Leicester City crashed England’s Premier League soccer party
Children’s doctor Katie Rogerson (left) and children’s physiotherapist Caroline Smith of the NHS choir with the Official Christmas No 1 award for charity single A Bridge Over You, beating  out Justin Bieber.
Arts
A British hospital choir beats out Justin Bieber for the top song on UK charts
The Fortingall Yew.
Science
Britain’s oldest tree may be undergoing a sex change
Fireworks light up the evening sky above RAF Feltwell during the annual 4th of July celebration. The festivities included games, rides, contests and food booths.
Culture
No fireworks this year for the village of Feltwell, England
The Cyber Warrior
Conflict
Meet the hacking prodigy you definitely want on your side
British photo showing White House cake to celebrate War of 1812
Global Scan
For the British, burning the White House 200 years ago is cause for a cake and sparklers
Global Scan
An experiment in crowd-sourced news for China ‘disappears’ at the hands of government censors
John Cleese performing during a dress rehearsal of his one man show in 2009.
Arts, Culture & Media
John Cleese, of Monty Python fame, joins George Clooney in attacking The Daily Mail