Last week the satirical show Brass Eye debuted on Britain's Channel Four. The first episode was a spoof on pedophilia hysteria and it caused an uproar. The show used real children interacting with ...

LONDON -- British lawmakers have approved an emergency bill barring scientists from using cloning techniques to produce babies, and Queen Elizabeth II is expected to approve the measure next week. The ...

Brits go to the polls to select a prime minister today. And it's predicted they will re-elect incumbent Tony Blair in a landslide. Blair's victory would be another blow to the waning Conservative ...

Casting a mighty spell over the U.K., “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” conjured up a record-breaking $5 million Saturday from previews at about 480 locations, the highest single-day gross in ...

The Scottish quartet Travis must have been puzzled by the American reaction to its king-making album, "The Man Who," in 1999. After all, the intelligent, ringing pop record had sustained severe ...

The bookshelves of my Australian childhood were garrisoned by foreign troops, filled with stories by faraway English people who wrote of things I couldn't see or touch or know: A.A. Milne, Enid Blyton ...