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Royal pageantry met hard-nosed electioneering Wednesday, as Queen Elizabeth II donned the diamond-encrusted Imperial State Crown to announce the government's plans for the next parliamentary session.
When John Hennessey was 10 years old, he was sent from a war-weary Britain to an orphanage in Australia, where he was told food was plentiful and children rode kangaroos to school.
What makes a British cultural institution? Style? Sophistication?
So you think London, population 8 million, is crowded with the living?
What do Amy Winehouse's flaming beehive and Guy Ritchie's self-inflicted black eye have in common?
Damien Hirst has made a fortune and become an art-world brand by peering at life's dark side.
Last week, Hilary Mantel was a critically praised but commercially lukewarm novelist, whose Tudor corridors-of-power saga "Wolf Hall" was receiving rave reviews for its vivid depiction of 16th-century England.
An audacious Taliban attack on Pakistan's army headquarters shows there is a growing terrorist threat to the nuclear-armed U.S. ally, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday.
Greed, hubris, vast fortunes erased at a stroke — the financial crisis is dramatic gold dust for writers.
The world is endlessly fascinated with Jack the Ripper — but what about his victims?
Previous winners A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee are among six finalists announced Tuesday for literature's prestigious Man Booker Prize.
A group of senior British doctors expressed concern Thursday about the treatment of the terminally ill, saying some people are dying prematurely because of guidelines for dealing with patients in their final hours.
Dubliners raised glasses in pubs and signed a book of condolence at the U.S. Embassy on Thursday in heartfelt tributes to Sen. Edward Kennedy.
A British newspaper says eight high-tech military helicopters have been out of service for eight years because defense officials tried to save money by installing homemade software in the aircraft.
The deputy commander of a U.S. Air Force base in England was baffled by what he'd seen: bright, pulsing lights in the night sky.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Jane Austen novel in possession of added gore will be a surefire best-seller.
It's the phrase that haunts Britain's weather forecasters — "barbecue summer."
David Byrne doesn't want to rock the building, but it may shake a little.
What's the well-dressed urbanite wearing this summer? Baggy white coveralls and a beekeeping helmet.
The British government said Friday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line.
It began with youthful idealism and ended in bitter regret.
Aliens have possessed the Earth's children and all of humanity is under threat. There's a planet to save, a government conspiracy to defeat and some tangled relationship dilemmas to sort out. Sounds like a job for Torchwood.
A report into how British police handled April protests against the G-20 summit in London said Tuesday the force's tactics were inadequate and should be reviewed.
An all-star Michael Jackson tribute show? A Jackson family concert, minus Michael? An ABBA reunion?
Inside the studios of BBC Persian television, dozens of journalists have been working around the clock at their computers and telephones, trying to report the news to Iran — or, according to the government in Tehran, stirring up trouble.
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