2m ago What to know about Chequers, the U.K. prime minister’s country house Chequers is the U.K. prime minister’s country house. Located about 40 miles northwest of London, it is a formidable estate, though no match for the environs of Windsor Castle where Mr. Trump spent Wednesday. The home was constructed in the mid-1500s,…
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President Trump is in the U.K. for a historic second state visit. The trip has been marked by the trademark pomp and circumstance offered by the royal family, with a formal banquet hosted by King Charles III and Queen Camilla — but Mr. Trump has not been able to avoid the Epstein scandal that has…
A focus of President Trump’s visit to London will be on the U.S.-U.K. trade agreement and the billions of dollars of American business investments in British AI, quantum computing and nuclear technology projects. Mr. Trump is the first U.S. president to make a second state visit to Britain, but there is widespread opposition to the…
In the forests of Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire, chimps crowd into fig and plum trees, feasting on fruit that’s sweet, soft and just a little boozy. A new study shows those daily snacks quietly add up to the equivalent of nearly two alcoholic beverages for humans. A team of scientists at University of California Berkeley…
Christian Brueckner, the convicted rapist identified by German prosecutors as the prime suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal, was released from prison in northern Germany on Wednesday after serving his sentence in an unrelated rape case. Shortly after 9 a.m. local time, Brueckner was driven out of the Sehnde…
The widow of Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that two independent labs have found that her husband was poisoned shortly before his death in a Russian prison. Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in the Arctic penal colony in February 2024. He was serving…
A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet has gone missing from a restoration laboratory of Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, the country’s antiquities ministry said. The bracelet, described as a golden band adorned with “spherical lapis lazuli beads,” belonged to King Amenemope, a pharaoh of Egypt’s 21st Dynasty (1070-945 BC). The ministry, in its statement issued late Tuesday, did not…
Thieves have broken into Paris’s Natural History Museum, making off with gold samples worth $700,000 in the latest of a worrying series of robberies from cultural institutions, according to the museum. Famed for its dinosaur skeletons and stuffed animals, the National Natural History Museum in the chic 5th district of the French capital also houses…
11m ago London Mayor Sadiq Khan criticizes Trump on the eve of his state visit Ahead of President Trump’s state visit to the U.K., London Mayor Sadiq Khan urged Britons to reject “the reactionary populists and nativists who are exploiting economic concerns, the atomisation of modern life and a growing distrust of political and…
