Britain

Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday evening, Buckingham Palace announced. She was the UK's longest-serving monarch and died at Balmoral in Scotland at age 96 after reigning for seventy years. In a statement, Buckingham Palace said: "The Queen died peacefully...

Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister after beating Rishi Sunak in the bitterly fought Conservative leadership contest. The foreign secretary, who won 81,326 votes (57.4 percent) of Tory members to the former chancellor’s 60,399 (42.6 percent) takes over...

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Thursday he is resigning, ending an unprecedented political crisis over his future that has paralyzed Britain’s government. In a statement at Downing Street Johnson said that he would stay as PM until his...

People from ancient Greece and the Aegean Sea region were the first farmers in Britain, according to a study published recently in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. According to the study, titled "Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early...

Four days of celebrations honoring Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee—seventy years on the throne—got underway on Thursday with a display of British military traditions. The jubilee is commemorated with a four-day holiday weekend. https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1532334830012223488 The celebration of Elizabeth's reign includes a service...

The UK was completely isolated at a recent UNESCO meeting on the fate of the Parthenon Marbles, the influential The Art Newspaper reported on Wednesday. According to the report, the British delegation at an intergovernmental meeting in Paris has dismissed...

Russian state TV, controlled by President Vladimir Putin, has been threatening European countries with a nuclear holocaust for their support for Ukraine. On Sunday, one of Russia’s top propagandists threatened Britain with annihilation by nuclear strike twice on his prime-time...

British Professor Peter Mackridge was granted honorary Greek citizenship during a ceremony in London earlier in the week for his services to Greek studies. Mackridge, Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford from 1996 until his early retirement...

The Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum have been secretly scanned by digital archaeologists with the hope of creating "perfect" replicas that could one day lead to the repatriation of the originals to Greece, a report in the Daily...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth has tested positive for Covid-19, Buckingham Palace announced on Sunday. The monarch, 95, is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms and expects to continue light duties at Windsor this week, the palace said. She is understood to be triple vaccinated. Queen...