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Happy ABBA-versary! Fans mark 50 years since ‘Waterloo’ took the world by storm

LONDON – It’s 50 years since ABBA won a major battle with “Waterloo.” A half-century ago Saturday, the Swedish quartet triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song,...

DATE: Apr 6, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Stonehenge through the ages: Exhibit brings builders to life

LONDON – For a monument that has been drawing crowds for thousands of years, Stonehenge still holds many secrets. The stone circle, whose giant pillars each took 1,000 people to move, was er...

DATE: Feb 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Travel

‘Peaky Blinders’ actor Helen McCrory dies of cancer at 52

British actor Helen McCrory, who starred in the television show “Peaky Blinders” and the “Harry Potter” movies, has died, her husband said Friday. She was 52 and had been suffering from canc...

DATE: Apr 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Naughty boy’: Monty Python star Terry Jones dies at 77

LONDON – Terry Jones, a founding member of the anarchic Monty Python troupe who was hailed by colleagues as “the complete Renaissance comedian” and “a man of endless enthusiasms,” has died a...

DATE: Jan 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Beatles album cover photographer Robert Freeman dies at 82

LONDON – Photographer Robert Freeman, who helped define the image of The Beatles with some of the band’s best-known album covers, has died aged 82. A statement on The Beatles’ off...

DATE: Nov 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Trump tweets strain U.S.-Britain ‘special relationship’

LONDON — A few days after his inauguration, U.S. President Donald Trump stood beside British Prime Minister Theresa May in the White House and proclaimed the strength of the “most special re...

DATE: Dec 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Far-right Trump retweets draw UK rebuke, but visit still on

LONDON – In a rare rebuke to Britain’s closest ally, British Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump was wrong to retweet videos posted by a le...

DATE: Nov 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

UK leader calls for end to ‘abuses of power’ amid sex claims

LONDON – British Prime Minister Theresa May called Monday for greater effort to stamp out “abuses of power” in public life amid what she called troubling allegations of sexual harassment and...

DATE: Nov 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pro-independence Catalans: ‘I’ve never felt Spanish’

GIRONA, Spain – To sense the conflicting currents of identity that have led Spain to the edge of a constitutional cliff, look no farther than Girona, some 60 miles northeast of Barcelona. Ma...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

JFK files: British newspaper got mystery call before assassination

Call came minutes before shooting, documents show

DATE: Oct 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Search for perpetrators of bomb on London subway, 29 wounded

LONDON – A homemade bomb planted in a rush-hour subway car injured 29 people in London on Friday, sparking a huge manhunt for the perpetrators of what police said was the fourth terrorist at...

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Who’s next: Jodie Whittaker 1st female star of ‘Doctor Who’

LONDON – British actress Jodie Whittaker was announced Sunday as the next star of the long-running science fiction series “Doctor Who” – the first woman to take a role that has been played b...

DATE: Jul 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment