That said, The Guardian points out that the number of official Jedi Knights has actually decreased in the last decade.
London Mayor Boris Johnson may be literally dangling on a zip line at the moment, but at least he has the rumored support of Rupert Murdoch to become Britain's next prime minister.
Google has admitted to having Street View data it said it had deleted in France, following its admission last Friday of having kept information from the United Kingdom, too.
Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld, who fought for France in World War II as an epically awesome secret agent with the British, died this spring at 88. Drawing from two recent obituaries, one in today's New York Times and the other in The Telegraph, we bring you highlights from the life of one of the world's most fascinating men.
Andy Samberg is the latest young, urban hip-type person to fall prey to a virulent new strain of anglophilia currently sweeping the nation. Have you noticed it?
This evening, Venus will slide into alignment with the orbits of the Earth and the Sun. This will not happen again until the year 2117, when we will all be dead.
The first tangible international consequences of the Syrian massacre in Houla are beginning materialize.
The Associated Press on soldiers in the melting Arctic, The Texas Tribune on uranium mining, Christian Science Monitor on solar panels in Germany, The Washington Post on saving the seahorse, and The Guardian on the drought in England
A dead body was found on the grounds of Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham estate recently, and it has just been declared a murder. This is like something out of the movies! In fact, it should be a movie. But what kind exactly? Here are five ideas.
Robert James Moore's obsession with the Queen took him to West Island
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Funerals delayed as workers demand a big increase in pay
As judges hand down tough sentences for people involved in riots
An American take on the key players leading up to yesterday's Parliament
It's enough to make you feel good about America's many troubles, explains John Oliver
On Obama's prudence, the Syrian people, and Shakespeare's appeal in China
Photos from the president's first official visit to the U.K. and Buckingham Palace
Libyan response to British military adviser idea sounds almost like a threat
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