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Vice President JD Vance leaves after speaking at the Congressional Cities Conference of the National League of Cities on Monday, March 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, file)

Change in itinerary for US Vice President JD Vance brings cautious relief for Greenland and Denmark

Greenland and Denmark appear cautiously relieved by the news that U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife are changing their itinerary for their visit to Greenland Friday.

A boat rides though a frozen sea inlet outside of Nuuk, Greenland, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Greenlanders unite to fend off the US as Trump seeks control of the Arctic island

Lisa Sólrun Christiansen gets up at 4 a.m. most days and gets to work knitting thick wool sweaters coveted by buyers around the world for their warmth and colorful patterns celebrating Greenland’s traditional Inuit culture.

A plane takes off as Heathrow Airport slowly resumes flights after a fire cut power to Europe's busiest airport in London, Saturday, March 22, 2025.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

What we know about the fire that brought London’s Heathrow Airport to a standstill

Hundreds of flights to and from London’s Heathrow Airport were canceled after a fire at a nearby substation knocked out power to Europe’s busiest airport. The fire disrupted travel plans for hundreds of thousands of people around the world.

A plane is prepared whilst another airplane approaches landing at Heathrow Airport after a fire at an electrical substation shuttered Europe's busiest air travel hub in London, Friday, March 21, 2025.(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

London’s Heathrow slowly resumes flights after a fire cut power to Europe’s busiest airport

A fire at an electrical substation knocked out power to Heathrow Airport for most of Friday, forcing Europe’s busiest hub to shut down for roughly 18 hours, causing widespread cancellations and rerouting headaches, and stranding roughly 200,000 passengers.

Britain's King Charles III waves as he arrives for a visit to University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre in London, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

King Charles III plans to meet Pope Francis during Vatican state visit in April

King Charles III is scheduled to have an audience with Pope Francis during a state visit next month to the Vatican, suggesting the Holy See is optimistic the pontiff will be back at work by then.

Greenland’s election winners push back against Trump’s wish to take control of the island

A party that favors a gradual path to Greenland’s independence from Denmark has won a surprise victory in parliamentary elections. Tuesday’s voting was held in the shadow of U.S. President Donald Trump’s stated goal of taking control of the island.

People line up in the back ground to cast their vote in parliamentary elections, in Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Polls close in Greenland’s capital for parliamentary election as Trump seeks control

The polling station in Greenland’s capital has closed. Tuesday’s parliamentary election will determine the leaders who will confront U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to take control of the strategically placed Arctic country.

The Hutchinson family is rowed to safety through the ice floes to the trawler Lord Talbot after their plane was forced down near Eker, Greenland, Sept. 28, 1932. (AP Photo, file)

A look at the history of Greenland, from Viking raiders to Donald Trump

Greenland is having a moment in the international spotlight. U.S. President Donald Trump has been maneuvering to gain control of the mineral-rich Arctic territory that most people know only as a huge icy island at the top of the world.

In this file photo dated July 2007, an Inuit seal hunter touches a dead seal atop a melting iceberg near Ammassalik Island, Greenland. (AP Photo/John McConnico, file)

What makes Greenland a strategic prize at a time of rising tensions? And why now?

U.S. President Donald Trump first suggested buying Greenland in 2019. People thought it was a joke at the time. But no one is laughing now.

A woman walks with her dogs on a beach in Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Greenland’s prime minister says island isn’t for sale as Trump seeks control ‘one way or the other’

Greenland’s prime minister has a message for President Donald Trump: “Greenland is ours.” Múte Bourup Egede made the statement Wednesday, just hours after Trump declared in his speech to a joint session of Congress that he intended to gain control of Greenland “one way or the other.”

New report says Russia is better able to withstand heavy battlefield losses than Ukraine

An annual review of the global military situation says Russia’s stockpiles of Cold War-era weapons and larger population have allowed it to withstand heavy battlefield losses in Ukraine as the West fails to provide Ukraine with the aid needed to mount a counteroffensive.

Pete and Gillian Brisley visit the home of their daughter, who was killed along with her two daughters in Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, and their son-in-law, who was taken captive, in Kibbutz Be'eri, southern Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

Teddy bear helps hostage’s British family come to terms with grief amid joy over his release

As Gillian Brisley and her husband, Pete, watched their son-in-law’s release from captivity, she clutched a teddy bear to her chest. It was a reminder of everything the family has suffered since Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Leila Soueif, who has been on hunger strike for more than 129 days seeking the release of her son Alaa Abdel Fattah from prison in Egypt, sits outside Downing Street in London, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

A mother pleads for Britain’s help in freeing son from Egyptian prison, one day of hunger at a time

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, she was just a mother — a mom trying to win freedom for her son, a pro-democracy activist who h

The Grenfell Tower and memorial wall on the seventh anniversary of the fire, in North Kensington, London, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

The burnt-out shell of London’s Grenfell Tower will be demolished, almost 8 years after deadly fire

The U.K. government has announced plans to dismantle the remains of London’s Grenfell Tower. The announcement on Friday came almost eight years after the deadliest fire in Britain since World War II swept through the high-rise apartment building that killed 72 people.

The Grenfell Tower and memorial wall on the seventh anniversary of the fire, in North Kensington, London, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Some survivors of the 2017 Grenfell fire in London angry at plans to demolish death trap tower block

Some of those who lost loved ones in the fire that ripped through London’s Grenfell Tower in 2017 have blasted government plans to demolish the shell of the apartment block, which they want to preserve as a monument to the 72 people who died in the blaze.

UK’s biggest water company seeks court approval for emergency funding to prevent nationalization

Britain’s largest water company Thames Water is seeking court approval for up to $3.7 billion of emergency funding to prevent the cash-strapped firm from falling into government administration.

BBC apologizes to staff who felt they were unable to raise concerns about comedian Russell Brand

The BBC has apologized to staff members who felt unable to complain about the conduct of actor and comedian Russell Brand because of his status after an internal review found that concerns about his behavior weren’t handled appropriately.

Manfred Goldberg, a Holocaust survivor is interviewed in London, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Manfred Goldberg wants you to know how the Nazis took his brother’s life. And how an angel saved his

Monday’s ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is more than just the moment to remember some 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust.

Sharone Lifschitz holds a photograph of herself with her father, Oded Lifshitz, who was abducted by Hamas militants, at her home in London, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Daughter of one of the oldest Israeli hostages hopes for answers in ceasefire deal

As one of the oldest hostages taken by Hamas, Oded Lifshitz would be among the first to be released under a ceasefire deal. But after 469 days of captivity in Gaza, his daughter can only hope he survived.

FILE -A woman with an umbrella stands in front of the Bank of England, at the financial district in London, , Nov. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Rising borrowing costs batter UK government and threaten to derail its left-leaning program

Britain’s new government, which is already facing anger over higher taxes, unpopular spending decisions and political scandals just six months after taking office, is now being battered by rising borrowing costs that threaten to derail its left-leaning program.

Britain's Princess Kate, left, hugs Rebecca Mendelhson during a visit to The Royal Marsden Hospital, where she received her cancer treatment, in London, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (Chris Jackson/Pool Photo via AP)

Britain’s Princess of Wales says her cancer is in remission

Britain’s Princess of Wales says that her cancer is in remission following a visit to the hospital where she received treatment.

Kate returns to cancer center where she was treated to offer gratitude to medical teams

The Princess of Wales visited the hospital where she was treated for cancer. She offered gratitude Tuesday to the medical teams who helped her and support to patients now undergoing treatment.

A man sits by the platform of an underground station, during the annual event "No Trousers Tube Ride" in London, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

No pants? No problem. London subway riders bare their legs to brighten a gray winter day

Mind the pants. Hundreds of Londoners headed down to the Underground on Sunday afternoon, stripped down to their underwear and travelled around a bit, trying to look as though nothing unusual was going on. As if.

This image taken from video and made available by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland shows a lynx in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, Dec. 9, 2024. (Royal Zoological Society of Scotland via AP)

Lynx on the loose in Scotland highlight debate over reintroducing species into the wild

Scottish environmental activists want to reintroduce the lynx into the forests of the Highlands. But not this way. At least two lynx were spotted in the Highlands on Wednesday.

Michael Fawcett, former senior aide to Britain's Prince Charles, arrives to his London home on Nov. 7, 2003. (AP Photo/John D McHugh, File)

Scottish regulators criticize past management of a charity founded by king but find no misconduct

Scottish regulators have criticized the past management of a charity founded by King Charles III. It follows an investigation triggered by media reports that a Saudi billionaire sought to secure a knighthood and U.K. citizenship in return for donations.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby delivers his speech as Pope Francis presides over the first vespers on the day the Catholic church celebrates the conversion of St. Paul, in the St.Paul's Basilica, in Rome, on Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Archbishop of Canterbury’s tenure ends after resigning over failures in handling abuse scandal

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s tenure officially ends Monday, two months after he resigned following an inquiry that found he failed to tell police about serial abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as he became aware of it.

Britain's King Charles III speaks during the recording of his Christmas message at the Fitzrovia Chapel in central London, England, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP, Pool)

King Charles III focuses Christmas message on healthcare workers in year marked by royal illnesses

King Charles III used his annual Christmas message to hail the selflessness of those who have cared for both him and Kate, the Princess of Wales this year, after both were diagnosed with cancer.

FILE -Prince Andrew leaves after attending the Christmas day service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham in Norfolk, England, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Prince Andrew’s Chinese spy drama again pushes King Charles III to rein in scandal-prone brother

How do you solve a problem like Prince Andrew? That’s the question facing King Charles III as the drama surrounding his 64-year-old brother roils Britain and the monarchy once again.

FILE -Prince Andrew leaves after attending the Christmas day service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham in Norfolk, England, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

A suspected Chinese spy with business ties to Prince Andrew is barred from UK

A suspected Chinese spy with business ties to Prince Andrew has been barred from the United Kingdom because of concerns that he posed a threat to national security.

Britain's King Charles III holds up flowers he was given as he leaves after a visit to University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre in London, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

AP photos capture British royal family’s year of illness and recovery

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s royal family is always in the public eye, their every move documented by reporters and captured for posterity by photographers.