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Oasis shocked fans by announcing a reunion tour last month, ending a 15-year hiatus.

Britain’s last coal-fired power plant is closing.

Maggie Smith, who died Friday aged 89, appeared in dozens of films over more than 60 years.

With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.

Michael Gove has been appointed as the editor of The Spectator which is one of the world’s oldest political magazines.

Billy Horschel becomes the first American golfer to win the BMW PGA Championship twice when he holes a brilliant eagle to beat four-time major winner Rory McIlroy in a playoff.

Matthew Baldwin is setting an unexpectedly hot pace at the BMW PGA Championship after shooting 6-under 66 to establish a two-stroke lead after the second round.

Rory McIlroy lost the club head on his 9-iron and then lost the lead by going out of bounds on the last hole in shooting an eventful 5-under 67 in the first round of the BMW PGA Championship.

One doesn’t need to know sign language to understand what Michael Connolly feels about his colleagues’ efforts to break down the barriers posed by his deafness.

The Oasis reunion could come earlier than expected.

Oasis has added three more dates to its reunion tour of Britain and Ireland, citing “unprecedented demand” for tickets.

The Britpop band known for timeless hits like “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” Oasis is reuniting for a tour of the British Isles next summer.

Sven-Goran Eriksson, the Swedish soccer manager who spent five years as England’s first ever foreign-born coach, has died.

The Paris Paralympics flame has been lit in the British village of Stoke Mandeville, widely considered the birthplace of the Paralympic Games.

The new Dutch prime minister has banned cell phones and other mobile devices from the weekly meetings of his Cabinet in a move aimed at dialing back the risk of digital eavesdropping by spies.

Lord’s will stage a women’s test match for the first time when England hosts India at the home of cricket in 2026.

Alicia Silverstone worried fans this week when she posted a TikTok clip of herself nibbling a poisonous berry she found while walking on a sidewalk.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly setting a house fire that killed a mother and three children in northern England.

King Charles III met Tuesday with survivors of the stabbing rampage that killed three young girls in northern England, viewing flowers and teddy bears laid in remembrance of the victims and signing a book of condolence as Britain recovers from widespread unrest fueled by the tragedy.

Researchers are one step closer to understanding how Stonehenge was created.

Aaron Rai took advantage of Max Greyserman’s late meltdown to win the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk has accused Poland’s previous government of illegally spending 100 billion Polish zlotys or $25 billion as he announced a government effort to try to recover the money.

England has delayed hiring a permanent coach to replace Gareth Southgate and will be led by Lee Carsley, who is currently in charge of the country’s under-21 team, on an interim basis.

U_K_ Prime Minister Keir Starmer has condemned an attack on a hotel housing asylum seekers in the north of England, describing it as “far-right thuggery.”.

A number of British police officers have been injured as far-right activists faced off with anti-racism protesters following a stabbing rampage at a dance class earlier this week that left three girls dead and several wounded.

The 1975 is being sued after Matty Healy's kiss of a bandmate on stage shut down a music festival last year in Malaysia.

Within hours of a stabbing attack in northwest England that killed three young girls and wounded several more children, a false name of a supposed suspect was circulating on social media.

Police say two children have died and 11 other people have been injured in a stabbing in northwest England.

The United Nations’ cultural agency has rejected recommendations to place Stonehenge on the list of endangered world heritage sites over concerns that Britain’s plans to build a nearby highway tunnel threaten the landscape around the prehistoric monument.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a British army officer was stabbed and seriously injured near a barracks in southeast England.

Justin Rose needed a long putt for par on the 12th hole at Royal Troon to keep pace with Xander Schauffele.

Heading into the Paris Olympics, Noah Lyles has never been faster.

British regulators have opened a preliminary investigation into Microsoft’s hiring of an AI startup’s key staff over concerns that it could thwart competition in the booming artificial intelligence market.

Gareth Southgate has announced he will step down as England manager after eight years in charge.

Spain arrived in Germany with no huge stars and no real expectations.

Gareth Southgate is leaving his future as England manager open for now after his team’s 2-1 loss to Spain in the Euro 2024 final.

England striker Harry Kane finished Euro 2024 in a six-way tie for the Golden Boot top scorer.

Spain has won a record fourth European Championship title after Mikel Oyarzabal’s 86th-minute goal clinched a 2-1 victory as England's painful decades-long wait for a major trophy goes on.

British singer-songwriter Griff’s career has been an unmistakable whirlwind.

Sports fans are getting ready for a Super Sunday.

Spain against England is hardly a classic and deep-rooted international rivalry but back-to-back title matches in the space of 11 months at major tournaments could yet usher in the start of one.

Police in the southwestern England city of Bristol are searching for a man who was behaving suspiciously on a local bridge just moments before the discovery of two suitcases believed to contain human remains.

British police have arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of killing two sisters and their mother in a crossbow attack.

Dutch fans came to the stadium in a rousing march, 100,000 strong.

England has reached a second straight European Championship final by beating the Netherlands 2-1 thanks to substitute Ollie Watkins’ stoppage-time winner.

Police say five people have been injured in clashes between fans of England and the Netherlands ahead of the Euro 2024 semifinal game between the two teams.

England coach Gareth Southgate is expecting his players to peak in the final stages of the European Championship after blaming their sluggish performances so far on increased expectations among the public.

England beat Switzerland 5-3 in a penalty shootout to reach the semifinals of Euro 2024 after a 1-1 draw in extra time.

Wrexham star striker Paul Mullin is set to miss the start of the new season after undergoing “minor spinal surgery."

A snake in the U.K. has drawn attention to the ability of some female species to reproduce without a mate.

England star Jude Bellingham is being investigated by UEFA over a potentially offensive gesture made during a European Championship win against Slovakia.

England has advanced to the quarterfinals of the European Championship after Jude Bellingham scored a stunning overhead kick in the fifth minute of stoppage time to spark a 2-1 comeback win after extra time against Slovakia.

Gareth Southgate was credited with making England fans fall back in love with their national soccer team.

The U.K. general election on July 4 is just days away now no doubt to the relief of the party leaders who have crisscrossed the country in a grueling month of campaigning.

Elaine Thompson-Herah, the two-time reigning Olympic champion at 100 and 200 meters, will miss the Paris Games because of what she said is a small tear in her Achilles tendon.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer struggled to get their messages across as protesters drowned out the early stages of their final televised debate of the U.K. election campaign.

Emma Raducanu saved a match point before beating second-seeded Jessica Pegula in three sets to reach the quarterfinals of the grass-court Eastbourne International.

England has advanced to the knockout stage of Euro 2024 as group winner after a 0-0 draw against Slovenia.

Police in northern England say four men have been arrested on suspicion of trespassing on the grounds of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s home.

Fast bowler Chris Jordan got a hat trick and the American cricket team lost five wickets in six balls as England secured its spot in the Twenty20 World Cup semifinals.

Emperor Naruhito of Japan and his wife Empress Masako have arrived in the U.K. ahead of their long-awaited official state visit.

Two Lockheed Martin subsidiaries have agreed to pay the federal government $70 million for overcharging the Navy for aircraft parts.

China says it has banned a number of business units of American aviation maker Lockheed Martin Corporation and three of its executives over arms deals with Taiwan, the self-ruling island it claims as its own territory.

England was far from convincing in a 1-1 draw with Denmark even if it likely ensured advancing to the round of 16 at the European Championship.

Stonehenge monuments that have stood for thousands of years appear unscathed after climate protesters were arrested for spraying orange paint on them.

The Bank of England has kept its main interest rate at a 16-year high of 5.25%, even though inflation has fallen to its target of 2%.

Two climate protesters have been arrested for spraying orange paint on the ancient Stonehenge monument in southern England.

Inflation in the U.K. has returned to the Bank of England’s target rate of 2% for the first time in nearly three years.

Summer kicks off in the Northern Hemisphere with the summer solstice on Thursday.

Jude Bellingham scored to give England a winning start at Euro 2024 by beating Serbia 1-0.

Riot police in Germany have intervened to stop brawling soccer fans before the European Championship soccer match between Serbia and England.

Tyrrell Hatton is known for his combustible temper.

Elaine Thompson-Herah, the two-time defending Olympic champion at 100 and 200 meters, had to be helped from the track after appearing to hurt her Achilles tendon in a race at the USATF New York City Grand Prix.

Defending champion England has charged at Australia’s tournament-best 201 total and come up 36 runs short in a one-sided Twenty20 World Cup contest in Barbados.

The cost of your next flight is likely to go up.

Soccer’s international governing body is introducing new measures designed to further support the well-being of players and coaches during pregnancy and after the birth of their children.

Dorothea Barron got a sneak preview of the Normandy landings from a watchtower on the coast of Scotland.

There is unprecedented managerial upheaval in the English Premier League.

Dairy-loving daredevils have thrown caution to the wind for one of Britain’s most extreme annual events: Cheese rolling.

Marcus Ericsson, the 2022 Indianapolis 500 champion and 2023 runner-up, was knocked out of Sunday's race before completing a lap as part of a three-car crash.

Southampton has secured an immediate return to the Premier League by beating Leeds 1-0 at Wembley Stadium in the Championship playoff final.

All 18-year-olds in Britain will have to perform a year of mandatory military or civilian national service if the governing Conservative Party wins the July 4 national election.

Leeds has a U.S. ownership group that contains a couple of major-winning golfers.

Britain’s lawmakers left Parliament on Friday for the last time before an election is held in six weeks.

The record-setting run of Bayer Leverkusen is over at 51 games.

Marcus Rashford has been left out of England’s provisional squad for the European Championship.

With an assist from Paul McCartney the Paralympic Games is starting its 100-day race to the opening ceremony in Paris on Aug. 28.

British regulators say they don’t need to open a competition investigation into Microsoft’s partnership with French artificial intelligence company Mistral, a month after asking for industry feedback on the deal.

Paul McCartney is a billionaire Beatle.

FIFA has finally set a date for the first Women’s Club World Cup tournament.

Prince William has offered a positive assessment of his wife’s health in one of his few statements about Kate’s condition since she announced that she was undergoing treatment for cancer.

Brazil’s bid for the 2027 Women’s World Cup has been ranked higher than the bid submitted by Germany, Netherlands and Belgium in an evaluation report released by FIFA.

Millions of voters in England have voted in local elections, the last big test before a looming U.K. general election.

Britain’s governing Conservative Party is suffering heavy losses as local election results pour in.

Matt Wallace has a one-shot lead over seven players in the first round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson.

Millions of voters in England and Wales have cast their ballots in an array of local elections.

Two men charged with cutting down the beloved 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree have made their first appearances in a northern England courtroom.

Leaders of top European soccer leagues say have no plans to take games to the United States.

Forty years and 50 million record sales after the Pet Shop Boys rose to fame with “West End Girls,” the iconic British duo is releasing a new album.

British competition regulators say they’ll scrutinize recent artificial intelligence deals by Microsoft and Amazon over concerns that the moves could thwart competition in the AI industry.