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Expecting a child, Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan arrive in Sydney
Britain's Prince Harry and the former Meghan Markle arrived in Sydney on Monday for a 16-day tour of Australia and the South Pacific, just hours before Kensington Palace announced that the royal couple are expecting a child in the spring. The trip is their only ...
Prince Harry and Meghan arrive in Sydney for official visit of Australia, South Pacific
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, arrived in Sydney on Monday, a day before they officially start a 16-day tour of Australia and the South Pacific. The trip is their only international tour since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were married in May, ...
1967 Beatles album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' named most popular in U.K. history
The Beatles' psychedelic masterwork, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," has been named the most popular British album in history. The Official Charts Company said Saturday that the band's 1967 classic is Britain's favorite album based on physical sales, downloads and streams in the U.K. The ...
Hold onto your hats: Princess Eugenie marries in grand U.K. royal wedding
Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Princess Eugenie married wine merchant Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on Friday in front of celebrities and Britain's senior royals including Prince Harry and wife Meghan, who wed at the same venue in May. Eugenie, 28, younger daughter of the queen's third ...
Russian website names third GRU officer involved in Salisbury nerve agent poisoning
The Russian news website Fontanka named on Wednesday a third GRU military intelligence operative, Sergey Fedotov, as having been involved in trying to kill ex-spy Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury. The website said records show Fedotov visited Britain in 2016, 2017 and ...
Poisoning suspect honored by Putin in 2014 after Ukraine stint, U.K. group says
One of the two suspects in the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in England is a medical doctor in Russian military intelligence who was honored as a Hero of the Russian Federation by President Vladimir Putin in 2014, a group of British investigators said ...
U.K. nerve agent poison suspect is actually doctor for Russian intelligence: Bellingcat
One of the two suspects in the poisoning of an ex-spy in England is a doctor who works for Russian military intelligence and traveled to Britain under an alias, investigative group Bellingcat reported Monday. Bellingcat said on its website that the man British authorities identified ...
Banksy canvas sells for $1.4 million — before self-destructing
Art prankster Banksy has struck again. A work by the elusive street artist self-destructed in front of startled auction-goers Friday, moments after being sold for £1.04 million ($1.4 million). In an Instagram post Saturday, Banksy claimed the dramatic artistic payoff had been years in the ...
History, ideology are back in polarized U.K.
The antagonistic visions of Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn indicate a great disruption in the politics of the world.
A Chinese reporter arrested by police following an alleged assault Sunday at the ruling Conservative Party's annual conference has been released without charge, according to Beijing's embassy in London, which has demanded an apology over the incident. Kong Linlin, a Europe-based reporter from state-run China ...
Britain and Australia accuse Russian spies of indiscriminate global cyberattacks
Britain and Australia on Thursday accused Russian military intelligence of conducting a campaign of cyberattacks targeting political institutions, businesses, media and sport bodies around the world. Operatives from Russia's GRU arm carried out various "reckless and indiscriminate" high-profile online attacks, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt ...
U.K.'s May to call Brexit an 'opportunity,' to challenge critics during speech at party conference
British Prime Minister Theresa May will tell her Conservative Party on Wednesday that the impending divorce from the European Union is an opportunity that opens up a future full of promise, assuring the faithful: "We have everything we need to succeed." In a speech on ...
