Pilgrims walk with crosses on the final leg of the Northern Cross pilgrimage to Holy Island, in Berwick Upon Tweed, England, on Friday. The pilgrims walk around 100 miles through Northumberland and the Scottish Borders during Holy Week. Image via Scott Heppell/AP.
Irish President Michael D. Higgins inspects a Guard of Honour at Windsor Castle in southern England on Tuesday. The Irish President and his wife Sabina are embarking on a four-day State Visit to Britain, the first by an Irish head of state. Image via Neil Hall, Pool/AP.
The rainbow flag flies over a building next to Nelson's Column monument in Trafalgar Square in central London on Friday. It marks the start of same-sex weddings in the UK, which will begin at midnight on Saturday. Image via Lefteris Pitarakis/AP.
Gemma Worrall, a beautician from Blackpool, England, took to Twitter this week to air her grievances against "our president Barraco Barner" for getting involved in Russia. What happened next won't surprise you at all, not even a little bit.
Alan Turing, the legendary British computer engineer and codebreaker who killed himself two years after a 1952 conviction for homosexual activity for which he was punished by chemical castration, received a royal pardon on Monday from Queen Elizabeth II.
A 20-year-old female undergrad is the third proudest person in the world today (following her two proud parents) after being named winner of a month-long contest to find the "horniest student."
In one of the most compelling ledes ever written, a Tuesday Metro story begins:
Halloween may be over, but the parade of horrifically offensive costume ideas marches on.
A British hacker has been arrested on charges that he illegally accessed U.S. government computer networks, including the Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Army, in order to steal the personal data of government employees. “You have no idea how much we can fuck with the U.S. government if we wanted to,” Lauri Love,…
A highly intoxicated college student in York was walking home from the pub with a fresh pizza from King's with which he intended to vanquish the drunk munchies.
Five drunk men stunned town officials by putting their liquid strength to good use and fixing a bike rack that had gone unrepaired for weeks.
Applicants for a mid-level job at a home appliance retailer say they were shocked when the store informed them their success hinged on their ability to defeat others in a dance-off set to Daft Punk.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron will announce extensive restrictions on internet pornography tomorrow, according to the Daily Mail (which is taking full credit for these reforms).
A group of schoolboys have decided to protest an administrative ban on short by wearing skirts to class.
After the Great Recession struck, many "Main Street" types of Americans were mad that the entire global economy managed to melt down without resulting in any "Wall Street" types of Americans being thrown in jail. Finally, the law on this point is changing.
Two monsters crashed a car into a soldier named Lee Rigby on Tuesday in southeast London, and then they hopped out and murdered him with meat cleavers and a machete. In the interminable lull before police arrived to shoot the men, they danced over Rigby's body and demanded passers-by take pictures and video. Here it…
The U.K. Ministry of Defence has identified Wednesday's victim of the Woolwich psychopaths as Lee Rigby, father of a 2-year-old son and veteran of military campaigns from Cyprus to Afghanistan who was currently based in London as part of the drum corps.
A horrifying daytime attack by local terrorists armed with meat cleavers took the life of U.K. soldier Lee Rigby, who was butchered and left dead in the street in southeast London. The crazed killers shouted "Allahu Akbar" after completing their grisly crime and then demanded stunned passers-by take video.
The Royals are expected to do something now and then, and nothing says "I happen to be partying in New York" like Prince Harry taking a somewhat tardy disaster tour of the New Jersey shoreline devastated by Hurricane Sandy seven months ago.
