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Allied Democratic Forces gunmen shoot and kill a British and South African honeymoon couple and their local tour guide at the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Western Uganda.
2023-10-18

Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert is freed by Iran in an apparent prisoner exchange with Australia for three Iranians. Moore-Gilbert had been arrested for espionage. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison calls her release a "miracle".
2020-11-26

New research by a team of British archaeologists, published in the current issue of the journal "Antiquity", revives an older theory of Herbert Henry Thomas that Stonehenge may have stood in Wales hundreds of years before it was dismantled and transported to Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire in South West England.
2015-12-8

Celebrity British lawyer Amal Clooney files a case in the United Nations on behalf of former Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
2015-03-9

British actor Eddie Redmayne wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything".
2015-02-22

British singer-songwriter Elton John converts his domestic partnership with filmmaker David Furnish to marriage.
2014-12-21

Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation and British satellite firm Inmarsat release the raw data used to determine the estimated path of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
2014-05-27

Venezuelan beauty queen Mónica Spear and her British ex-husband are murdered during a carjacking in Caracas.
2014-01-6

Veteran British broadcaster Sir David Frost – who famously interviewed former U.S. President Richard Nixon – dies on board the Queen Elizabeth of a heart attack, aged 74.
2013-08-31

Several British Muslim writers speak out about "Prime Suspect" writer Lynda La Plante's complaint against the BBC regarding how much more difficult it is to have her scripts commissioned than it would be for a "little Muslim boy".
2010-01-3