NEW YORK -- At night after she finished the day's shooting of "The Iron Lady" in London, Meryl Streep would undergo a kind of ritual. Makeup artists painstakingly removed the prosthetics that enabled Streep to play the former British prime ...

LONDON -- Commemorations took place in Britain Tuesday to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, the English novelist whose acute social analysis is seen by many as ringing true even today.

In London, Prince Charles took part...

LONDON -- A British appeals court on Monday ordered the government to release on bail a radical Muslim cleric who had been detained as a threat to national security for much of the past decade.

Abu Qatada, whose real name is Omar Mahmoud Mohammed...

LONDON -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II marked her 60 years on the throne with a "thank you" to the nation Monday and a pledge that she would serve for the rest of her life.

Commemorations Monday of the day when her father, King George VI, died of...

LONDON -- Preparations continue apace six months ahead of the 2012 London Olympics with organizers promising the right balance will be struck between security and sport at the world's largest sporting event.

However, London's citizens remain to ...