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Spanish Civil Guard police arrest five French tourists and one Swiss tourist for allegedly raping an 18-year-old British woman on the island of Mallorca.
2023-08-16

Two British aid workers are killed during a humanitarian evacuation from Soledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
2023-01-24

A British man working at the British embassy in Berlin is arrested by German police on suspicion of spying for Russia.
2021-08-11

Anthony Hopkins becomes the oldest person to win Best Actor for his role in "The Father" at 83.
2021-04-25

Thai King Vajiralongkorn commutes the death sentence of two Burmese nationals convicted of the rape and murder of two British backpackers in 2014 in Ko Tao. The royal decree was issued to commemorate the birthday of the King, on July 28, to "illustrate the king's clemency". The pair now serve life in prison.
2020-08-15

Two British VICE News journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, arrested on 28 August in Diyarbakir Province in southeastern Turkey on terror charges, are released while their colleague, translator Mohammed Ismael Rasool, remains in custody.
2015-09-4

With the number of British dead expected to exceed 30, the U.K. warns its citizens about traveling to certain parts of Tunisia, including the south and near the Libyan border.
2015-06-28

The Motion Picture Academy announces the nominees for the 87th Academy Awards best picture at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California. The nominations are "American Sniper", "Birdman", "Boyhood", "The Grand Budapest Hotel", "The Imitation Game", "Selma", "The Theory of Everything", and "Whiplash".
2015-01-15

British food writer Nigella Lawson's alleged drug use can be included in the lawsuit, the high court says.
2013-12-19

The $3 million special Fundamental Physics Prize is awarded to Stephen Hawking, a British theoretical physicist. Seven scientists who led the Large Hadron Collider and discovered Higgs-like particle share another $3 million special prize which was founded by a Russian physicist and internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner.
2012-12-11