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Kids under 16 will no longer be allowed to livestream on Instagram without parental consent

Instagram users under 16 won’t be able to livestream or unblur nudity in direct messages they’ve received without parental approval. Owner Meta Platforms also said it was extending its safeguards for users under 18 to Facebook and Messenger.

King Charles III, right, and Queen Camilla walk as they visit the Colosseum archeological park, in Rome, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

UK royals meet Italy’s president and enjoy a special tour of Rome’s Colosseum

Prince Harry waves as he arrives at the High Court in London, England, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Lawyer says Prince Harry was unfairly ‘singled out’ when stripped of UK security detail

Thousands of unemployed people gather outside City Hall in Cleveland during the Great Depression, after some 2,000 jobs were made available for park improvements and repairs, Oct. 9, 1930. (AP Photo, File)

Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different

Local residents deliver rubbish to mobile collection vehicles in Erdington, Birmingham, England, Monday, April 7, 2025. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

Garbage piles up on Birmingham’s streets as a sanitation strike in the UK city enters its 5th week

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UK Supreme Court rules that equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female; AP explains

The ruling means that a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes, but the court added that its ruling “does not remove protection from trans people” against discrimination.

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Mixed reactions as UK Supreme Court rules that UK equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female

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An arial view of Bangui, Central African Republic, is seen on March. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)

UK accuses Russia of planning to interfere in upcoming Central African Republic elections

This image released by ABC shows Daniel Sunjata, left, and Kaitlin Olson in a scene from "High Potential." (Carlos Lopez-Calleja/Disney via AP)

TV procedurals up their game, with doctors on cruises and quirky single moms solving crimes

A man is silhouetted in front of the Bank of England in London, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 which is widely expected to cut interest rates for the third time in six months later Thursday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

UK inflation spikes to a 10-month high, likely to worry the Bank of England

Iran accuses detained British couple of spying

Jim Ratcliffe, center, in the stands during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Arsenal at the Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, England, Sunday, May 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson, file)

Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe’s first year at Man United has not gone to plan

A general view of Thames Water plant in Twickenham, London, Wednesday, June 28, 2023.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Judge approves emergency plan to keep Britain’s largest water company afloat

Mikey Madison poses with the leading actress award for 'Anora' at the 78th British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA's, in London, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

‘Conclave’ wins best picture at BAFTAs as ‘The Brutalist’ takes directing and acting prizes

Local youth skate with a large Canadian flag on the Rideau Canal to launch celebrations for the 60th Anniversary of the National Flag of Canada Day, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Defiant Canadians mark their flag’s anniversary as Trump hopes to make their country a state

Family expresses concern at British couple detained in Iran on security charges

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy, right, welcomes Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ahead of a meeting at 1 Carlton Gardens in London, Thursday Feb. 13, 2025. (James Manning/Pool Photo via AP)

Top diplomats of Britain and China hold talks as part of efforts to rebuild ties

Special forces from Spain land on a beach from a military helicopter as they participate in the Steadfast Dart 2025 exercise, involving some 10,000 troops in three different countries from nine nations and represent the largest NATO operation planned this year, in Nea Anchialos, central Greece, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

NATO tests new deployment model without US ahead of Ukraine war anniversary

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks about her plans for Britain's economy in Eynsham, England, Wednesday Jan. 29, 2025. (Peter Cziborra/Pool Photo via AP)

UK economy ekes out modest growth in final quarter of 2024 after strong December

Newly elected President of Parliament, Constantine Tassoulas waits to receive the results of the fourth round of voting at the parliament in Athens, Greece, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (Angelos Tzortzinis/Pool Photo via AP)

Greece’s new president is a leading advocate of bringing home the Parthenon sculptures from Britain

A warden looks through a magnifyer to check a 500 Pound coin during the "Trial of the Pyx,'' a ceremony that dates to the 12th Century in which coins are weighed in order to make certain they are up to standard, at the Goldsmiths' Hall in London, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Almost 800 years of pomp and circumstance ensures the quality of Britain’s currency

The U.S. Department of the Treasury building is seen in Washington, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Russian cybercrime network targeted for sanctions across US, UK and Australia

In this frame grab from Saudi state television footage, doctoral student and women's rights advocate Salma al-Shehab speaks to a journalist at the Riyadh International Book Fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March 2014. (Saudi state television via AP, File)

Saudi authorities free doctoral student initially sentenced to 34 years for tweets, activists say

People thought to be migrants who undertook the crossing from France in small boats and were picked up in the Channel, arrive to be disembarked from a small transfer boat which ferried them from a larger British border force vessel that didn't come into the port, in Dover, south east England, Friday, June 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

UK touts a clampdown on illegal working as it seeks to look tough on immigration

Nick Hutton, grinder of Emirates Britain SailGP Team, flight controller Luke Parkinson, driver Dylan Fletcher, grinder Neil Hunter, wing trimmer Iain Jensen and strategist Hannah Mills celebrate on the podium after the team won the final race on Race Day 2 of the KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (Patrick Hamilton/SailGP via AP)

Britain comes from behind to beat Canada and Australia in SailGP Sydney

President Donald Trump arrives to meet British Prime Minister Theresa May before their meeting at Chequers, in Buckinghamshire, England, July 13, 2018. (Jack Taylor/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Britain navigates rough transatlantic waters as Trump roils the ‘special relationship’

In this photo released by SailGP, the Australia SailGP team, helmed by driver Tom Slingsby, competes on Race Day 1 of the KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix in Sydney, Australia. Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (Felix Diemer/SailGP via AP)

Australia on top but France impresses on Day 1 of SailGP Sydney

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

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

UK announces plans to demolish Grenfell Tower almost eight years after fire in London apartment building killed 72

Palmerston, the Foreign Office cat sits on a photographer's ladder at Downing Street in London, on Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

It’s the ‘purr-fect’ job. Britain’s top feline diplomat comes out of retirement

Britain revokes accreditation of Russian diplomat in tit-for-tat expulsion

A man is silhouetted as he looks on his phone in front of the Bank of England in London, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 which is widely expected to cut interest rates for the third time in six months later Thursday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Bank of England halves UK growth projection and cuts main interest rate to 4.50%

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with President Nayib Bukele at his residence at Lake Coatepeque in El Salvador, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

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Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa leaves by car from the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Tuesday, June 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Anglican Church in South Africa admits failures in handling of sexual abuse claims

Ex-British soldier who spied for Iran and made prison escape is sentenced to 14 years