Tag: United Kingdom

Led by their president, Americans prayed on D-Day

David Kerr · June 6, 2014 9:00 am

Queen Elizabeth II, centre, and The Duke of Edinburgh leaves Buckingham Palace, riding inside the new Diamond Jubilee State Coach, to deliver her speech at the Palace of Westminster, in London, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. The Coach was built in Australia by a team of craftsmen led by Jim Frecklington who conceived the initial idea. The State Opening of Parliament is an annual pageant of pomp and politics centered on the Queen's Speech, a legislative program written by the government but read out by the monarch before a crowd of lawmakers. (AP Photo/Jonathan Brady, Pool)

Queen Elizabeth II unveils British gov’t plan

Jill Lawless · June 4, 2014 5:12 pm

A Portuguese Republican Guard policeman stands guard by a cordoned-off area with other officers, background, in Praia da Luz, Lagos, southern Portugal, Monday, June 2, 2014. Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann cordoned off Monday an area of scrubland near where the British girl vanished seven years ago. Officers placed yellow-and-white police tape around the waste ground, which is mostly level and slightly larger than a soccer field, and were expected to conduct a forensic examination of the area in the coming days. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Police prepare for search in Madeleine McCann case

HELENA ALVESBARRY HATTON · June 2, 2014 12:13 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 1986, file photo, Disc jockey and presenter on Britain's Radio 1, Jimmy Savile is pictured at Madame Tussauds museum in London, England. A British children's charity says at least 500 people have reported abuse by the late entertainer Jimmy Savile, with the youngest alleged victim just 2 years old. (AP Photo/John Redman, File)

Charity: 500 allegations against Jimmy Savile

Washington Examiner · June 2, 2014 10:45 am

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 file photo, Britain's Education Secretary Michael Gove listens to applause after delivering a keynote speech at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, England. Britain's education minister insists he has not killed a mockingbird, but many literature-lovers don't believe him. Education Secretary Michael Gove has sparked a furor with his campaign to put the basics - and Britishness - back into schools. The latest new rules introduced by his department mean that a major English Literature qualification must focus almost exclusively on writers from the British Isles. Longtime favorites like John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" and Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" are off the syllabus - and critics say that could lead to the narrowing of British minds. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)

UK education revamp leaves US authors on the shelf

Jill Lawless · May 30, 2014 5:59 pm

FILE - In this June 6, 2004 file photo, French President Jacques Chirac, left, greets Queen Elizabeth II, of Britain, and her husband Prince Philip at the British military cemetery in Bayeux, northwestern France, during ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. The perils of World War II directly shaped the lives of Elizabeth, 88, and Philip, 92. The anniversary is so heartfelt that the royal couple is preparing to cross the English Channel once more, this time on a Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel Elizabeth helped 20 years ago. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

D-Day: Queen Elizabeth making rare foreign trip

Gregory Katz · May 29, 2014 6:55 am

Nigel Farage ledÃÂ the UK Independence Party to victory in last week's European Parliament Elections. (AP/Sang Tan)

Europe’s ‘tea party’ scores big in European Parliament voting

Cal Thomas · May 28, 2014 9:00 pm

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The Rich List and the West’s culture of envy

Cal Thomas · May 26, 2014 9:00 pm

After anti-EU parties surge, what’s ahead?

JohnThor Dahlburg · May 26, 2014 2:48 pm

Britain’s UKIP party surges in Euro election

Sylvia Hui · May 25, 2014 11:49 pm

In this photo provided by the United States Navy, the overturned hull of the Cheeki Rafiki is shown as discovered by a U.S. Navy warship approximately 1,000 miles east of Cape Cod, Mass., Friday, May 23, 2014. The warship located the overturned hull of the British yacht that went missing last week in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, officials said the search for any survivors will conclude on Friday evening. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

Family of UK yacht ‘saddened’ as search called off

Washington Examiner · May 24, 2014 1:27 pm

In this photo released by David Barz , firefighters attend a fire at Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, May 23, 2014. A major fire has devastated the Glasgow School of Art, one of the city's major landmarks. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze, which broke out just after noon on Friday, was a "very significant fire." Flames flared through the roof and windows of the sandstone Art Nouveau building, designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and completed in 1909. A 2009 poll by the Royal Institute of British Architects voted it the best British building of the last 175 years. (AP Photo / David Barz)

Fire crews save most of Glasgow School of Art

Washington Examiner · May 24, 2014 11:29 am