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The British Parliament still has 92 unelected lawmakers who inherit seats by bloodline. They're all older white men. A new law now phases them out, for the first time in nearly 1,000 years.

British and European Union negotiators in Brussels appeared to be closing in on a draft Brexit deal as the deadline for the U.K. to leave the EU approaches. Hope for a deal has since faded.

Sue Copper, owner of Little Valley Brewery in the U.K., has created a trio of beers representing the varying sentiments in Britain about the upcoming EU referendum.

NPR's Melissa Block speaks with Peter Oakford, cabinet member for specialist children's services at Kent County Council, about the vast numbers of youth migrants crossing into the U.K.

Hundreds of musicians turned out to play an orchestral number across from Britain's parliament in a protest of the pandemic-related drop in government financial aid to freelancers like themselves.

The three men, who are all charged with violent crimes, escaped from an Orange County jail on Friday. Authorities didn't discover their absence for 16 hours.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Guardian political editor Patrick Wintour about British Prime Minister David Cameron's announcement to allow more Syrian refugees into the UK.

Give your butt joints a break with this pine standing desk from Pennsylvania.

The bill would raise the minimum hours of instruction for core classes in Ohio by a little over two weeks each year.

On New Year's Eve, a man with a knife was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after three people were stabbed at a busy railway station in Manchester, England.