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A man with brain damage has a murder conviction reversed after a 34-year fight
An English appeals court has quashed the conviction of a man who has brain damage and sentenced to life in prison for the 1990 murder of a shopkeeper in London.
 
FILE - This undated handout issued by Cheshire Constabulary shows of nurse Lucy Letby. (Cheshire Constabulary via AP, File)
Inquiry into UK hospital where a nurse killed 7 babies will not review evidence against her
An inquiry into an English hospital where a neonatal nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill seven others has begun as her supporters push to clear her name.
 
Colorado Springs Police Department investigators and officers work on the scene of a burglary that resulted in the deaths of two people at the Palomino Ranch apartment complex on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023 in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Parker Seibold/The Gazette via AP)
An American woman accused of killing 2 of her children fights extradition in a London court
A prosecutor in London says an American woman accused of killing her two youngest children in Colorado last December told her 11-year-old daughter who survived the attack that God was making her do it.
 
Man arrested over 1982 IRA bombing that killed 3 police officers in Northern Ireland
Police say they arrested a man in connection with an IRA bombing that killed three Northern Ireland policemen in 1982.
 
FILE - Members of the public gather outside the Town Hall in Southport, England, Aug. 5, 2024, during a vigil for the victims of the stabbing attack last Monday. (AP Photo/Darren Staples, File)
Pakistan authorities charge man with cyber terrorism over misinformation that sparked riots in UK
Authorities in Pakistan have arrested and charged a man with cyber terrorism for his alleged role in spreading misinformation that led to widespread rioting in the U.K. earlier this month.
 
A sign outside the London Zoo explains why a reproduction has replaced a Banksy mural that was removed, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. The London Zoo has removed Banksy's gorilla mural from its entrance gate. The painting was the final animal-themed work by the street artist that appeared over nine consecutive days in London. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
‘Banksy woz ere.’ London Zoo is the latest to remove street artist’s animal mural for protection
The London Zoo has removed Banksy’s gorilla mural from its entrance gate. The painting was the final animal-themed work by the street artist that appeared over nine consecutive days in London.
 
6-year-old girl killed in dance class in northwest England is mourned at private funeral
The youngest of three girls killed when a teen went on a stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class has been mourned in a private funeral.
 
Smoke billows out from the roof of Somerset House in central London. Saturday Aug. 17, 2024, after a fire broke out the large neoclassical arts venue. (Shivansh Gupta/PA via AP)
Fire breaks out at London’s Somerset House, home to priceless works by Van Gogh, Cezanne
Priceless paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh and others were safe after firefighters worked to douse a fire at Somerset House.
 
A woman photographs a mural by the elusive street artist Banksy at the entrance to the London Zoo, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. The elusive street artist's recent works that appeared all over London on nine consecutive days apparently came to a conclusion after a final mural surprised staff who arrived early Tuesday to feed the animals at the London Zoo. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
The paint is dry on Banksy’s animal-themed street art that appeared across London over 9 days
On the 10th day, after creating the mountain goat, elephants, pelicans, a rhinoceros and a gorilla, among other animals, Banksy rested.
 
A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy is seen at the London Zoo, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, in London. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
Banksy London Zoo mural offers clue to why wild animals have been appearing all over city
Workers arriving at the London Zoo were surprised to discover an unexpected exhibit that suggested the animals were being set free.
 
A car burns during an anti-immigration protest in Middlesbrough, England, Sunday Aug. 4, 2024. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP)
Man who encouraged torching hotels for asylum seekers in Britain gets 3 years in prison
A man who used social media to stoke racial hatred during far-right violence in Britain and encouraged people to torch hotels housing asylum seekers has been sentenced to more than three years in prison.
 
FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session in parliament in London, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
Riots test the new British prime minister in his first month in the job
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is just a month into his job and facing a crisis as widespread rioting spreads across the U.K.
 
General view of people gathering to protest against a planned far-right anti-immigration protest in Walthamstow, London, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024 .(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
British police prepared for far-right agitators. They found peaceful anti-racism protesters instead
Far-right demonstrations that had been anticipated by police in dozens of locations across Britain failed to materialize as anti-racism protesters instead showed up in force.
 
FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session in parliament in London, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
UK prime minister talks of ‘standing army’ of police to deal with rioting across Britain
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says a “standing army” of specialist police will be set up to deal with rioting and the justice system will be ramped up to deal with hundreds of arrests after violent disorder rocked cities across the nation over the past week.
 
Protesters confront police officers during the "Enough is Enough" protest in Whitehall, London, Wednesday July 31, 2024, following the fatal stabbing of three children at a Taylor Swift-themed summer holiday dance and yoga class on Monday in Southport. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)
UK police brace for more far-right protests as government warns of tough response
Several suspects arrested in violent protests that erupted after the fatal stabbing of three children in northwest England have appeared in court as officials brace for more clashes over the weekend.
 
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, second left, holds a meeting at 10 Downing street in London, England, Thursday, August 1, 2024 to discuss clashes following the Southport stabbing. (Henry Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
British prime minister announces policing plan to deal with violence after fatal stabbing of girls
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will set a national policing capability to crack down on violent protesters after clashes with police across England the past two nights.
 
Protesters confront police during the "Enough is Enough" protest in Whitehall, London, Wednesday July 31, 2024, following the fatal stabbing of three children at a Taylor Swift-themed summer holiday dance and yoga class on Monday in Southport. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)
British police charge 17-year-old with murder over a stabbing attack that killed 3 children
British police say they have charged a 17-year-old with murder over a stabbing attack that killed three children in Southport, northwest England.
 
FILE - This is a Friday, April 3, 2015 file photo of Anjem Choudary, a British Muslim social and political activist and spokesman for Islamist group, Islam4UK, speaks following prayers at the Central London Mosque in Regent's Park, London, April 3, 2015. Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary, who was previously convicted of supporting the so-called Islamic State, was found guilty Tuesday by an London jury on terrorism-related charges. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)
Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary sentenced to life in prison for directing a terrorist group
Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary has been sentenced to life in prison for directing a terrorist group.
 
An unruly crowd clash with police, Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Southport, northwest England, near where three girls were stabbed to death in a dance class the day before. The violence erupted shortly after a peaceful vigil was attended by hundreds in the center of Southport to mourn the 13 victims of the stabbings, including seven still in critical condition. (Richard McCarthy/PA via AP)
Police clash with a violent crowd gathered near the site of UK stabbing attack that killed 3 girls
“Keep smiling and dancing like you love to do our princess,” Aguiar’s parents said in a statement released by police. “Like we said before to you, you’re always our princess and no one would change that.”
 
Police secure the area, where a man has been detained and a knife has been seized after a number of people were injured in a reported stabbing, in Southport, Merseyside, England, Monday July 29, 2024. (James Speakman/PA via AP)
2 children dead and 11 people injured in stabbing rampage at a dance class in England, police say
Police say two children have died and 11 other people have been injured in a stabbing in northwest England.
 
High Court judge in the UK upholds the government ban on puberty blockers
A High Court judge has upheld the British government’s emergency ban on puberty blockers. Justice Beverley Lang says in a ruling that a review commissioned by England’s National Health Service found “very substantial risks and very narrow benefits” of the treatment.
 
In this undated handout photo provided by The National Wax Museum Plus, Artistic Coordinator Mel Creek applies the finishing touches on a wax figure of the late singer Sinead O'Connor, at the National Wax Museum Plus on Dublin's Westmorland Street, Ireland. A wax figure of Sinéad O’Connor that did not compare to how the late singer looked caused a minor meltdown among fans and family members, leading a Dublin museum on Friday, July 26, 2024, to pull it from its collection. The National Wax Museum Plus apologized to O'Connor's family and said it would aim to create a more accurate representation of the singer of “Nothing Compares 2 U.” (Julien Behal via AP)
Museum pulls wax figure of Sinead O’Connor after complaints it does not compare to the real thing
A Dublin museum has pulled a wax figure of Sinéad O’Connor from its collection after fans and family members complained that it did not compare to how the late singer looked.
 
FILE - Exterior view of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office says the U.K. will not interfere with the International Criminal Court’s request for an arrest warrant against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The announcement is reversal of plans announced by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who was ousted earlier this month when Starmer’s Labour Party swept Conservatives from office in a landslide. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
UK drops plans to challenge ICC arrest warrant request against Benjamin Netanyahu
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office says the U.K. will not intervene with the International Criminal Court’s request for an arrest warrant against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
 
FILE - Britain's Prince Harry leaves after attending an Invictus Games Foundation 10th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral in London, on May 8, 2024. Prince Harry said that his crusade against the British tabloids has contributed to his royal family rift, according to a documentary airing Thursday July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
Prince Harry says his crusade against British tabloids has contributed to royal family rift
Prince Harry says his crusade against British tabloids has contributed to his royal family rift. Harry said in a documentary airing Thursday that he wished his family had joined him in his invasion of privacy litigation.
 
A guitar and stage costume from previous concert tours are displayed at the 'Taylor Swift Songbook Trail Exhibition' at the Victoria & Albert Museum, on Wednesday, July 24, 2024 in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
Taylor Swift’s museum era is on full display at London’s V&A
Taylor Swift fans who missed her world tour or those who can’t get enough of her can catch her at the museum this summer.
 
FILE - This is a Friday, April 3, 2015 file photo of Anjem Choudary, a British Muslim social and political activist and spokesman for Islamist group, Islam4UK, speaks following prayers at the Central London Mosque in Regent's Park, London, April 3, 2015. Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary, who was previously convicted of supporting the so-called Islamic State, was found guilty Tuesday by an London jury on terrorism-related charges. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)
Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary convicted of directing a terrorist group
Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary has been convicted by a London jury of directing a terrorist group.
 
Slovenia's Primoz Roglic rides through the vineyards during the seventh stage of the Tour de France cycling race, an individual time-trial over 25.3 kilometers (15.7 miles) with start Nuits-Saint-Georges and finish in Gevrey-Chambertin, France, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
AP PHOTOS: A race to capture the Tour de France before it flies by
The three-week Tour de France goes by in the blink of an eye. The grueling race that ended Sunday covered around 3,500 kilometers and photojournalists had to capture hundreds of fleeting moments.
 
Slovenia's Primoz Roglic rides through the vineyards during the seventh stage of the Tour de France cycling race, an individual time-trial over 25.3 kilometers (15.7 miles) with start Nuits-Saint-Georges and finish in Gevrey-Chambertin, France, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
AP PHOTOS: The race to capture fleeting scenes from the Tour de France
The three-week Tour de France goes by in the blink of an eye. The grueling race that ends Sunday covers around 3,500 kilometers and a photojournalist must capture hundreds of fleeting moments.
 
British climate protesters who plotted highway shutdown given record harsh prison sentences
Five climate activists who planned a protest to cause gridlock and block traffic over four days on a major highway circling London have been sentenced to as much as five years in prison.
 
A man reads the hearts on the Covid Memorial Wall in London, as the BMA, TUC and Covid-19 Families for Justice, respond to the publication of the first report from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Thursday July 18, 2024. The U.K. government was ill-prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic and serious errors in planning failed its citizens, an inquiry found Thursday. Retired judge Heather Hallett, who is leading the ongoing inquiry, said the government wrongly believed in 2019 that it was one of the best-prepared countries in the world for an outbreak and it anticipated the wrong pandemic — influenza. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)
Inquiry finds Britain was ill-prepared for COVID-19 pandemic and failed its citizens
An inquiry into the U.K. government’s response to COVID-19 found it was ill-prepared for a pandemic and serious errors in planning failed its citizens. Retired judge Heather Hallett has led the inquiry.
 
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