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A large fire near London’s Heathrow Airport is disrupting global travel for hundreds of thousands of passengers.

The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the ...

Britain’s George III has gotten a bad rap. He was not the all-powerful monarch that President Trump allegedly aspires to be.

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While London boasts some of the most famous museums and art galleries in the world, the rest of the UK is blessed with so ...

On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.