Prince Harry Agrees to Settlement as Murdoch’s U.K. Tabloids Offer Full Apology

Prince Harry Agrees to Settlement as Murdoch’s U.K. Tabloids Offer Full Apology

Prince Harry’s lawyer announced on Wednesday that he had reached a settlement with Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers over accusations of unlawful information gathering — an abrupt end to a case that Harry had cast as a last chance to hold the tabloids to account for years of predatory behavior. News Group Newspapers offered Harry […]

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U.K. May Change Terrorism Law After Southport Attack, Starmer Says

U.K. May Change Terrorism Law After Southport Attack, Starmer Says

Britain faces a new and dangerous form of extremism, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday, warning that loners and misfits were being radicalized by “a tidal wave of violence freely available online.” In a speech at Downing Street, Mr. Starmer said that unlike the terrorist threat posed by organized groups like Al Qaeda, where […]

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Start of Prince Harry’s Trial Against Murdoch’s U.K. Tabloids Is Delayed

Start of Prince Harry’s Trial Against Murdoch’s U.K. Tabloids Is Delayed

The trial in Prince Harry’s long-awaited lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloids for unlawful gathering of information opened on Tuesday. But it was immediately adjourned amid signs that the prince was weighing a last-minute settlement offer from Mr. Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers. A lawyer for Harry petitioned the judge for an hour, before asking for […]

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Southport Killer Had ‘Sickening and Sustained Interest’ in Violence, U.K. Officials Say

Southport Killer Had ‘Sickening and Sustained Interest’ in Violence, U.K. Officials Say

After his expulsion, Mr. Rudakubana was enrolled at the Acorns School in Lancashire, which caters to children with special needs, and at Presfield High School and Specialist College. But he struggled to integrate, the safeguarding agency said, a situation that worsened after the pandemic began in 2020 and schools closed. Despite professionals’ efforts to engage […]

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Trial Begins of Suspect in Southport Stabbing Attack at Dance Class

Trial Begins of Suspect in Southport Stabbing Attack at Dance Class

The trial began on Monday for Axel Rudakubana, 18, who is accused of carrying out a knife attack at a dance class last July in the northern English town of Southport that left three children dead and 10 other people injured. Mr. Rudakubana faces three charges of murder for the deaths of Bebe King, 6, […]

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A Killer Was Taken Back Into Custody. Was It Because of His Drill Rap Songs?

A Killer Was Taken Back Into Custody. Was It Because of His Drill Rap Songs?

One man was known as a killer, sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for killing a 16-year-old London student in a gruesome confrontation at a bakery. The other man was a balaclava-wearing rapper from South London, known as TEN, whose music in the drill genre about prison life, crime and bloodshed had gained him […]

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Prince Harry’s Suit Against Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. Tabloids Set to Start

Prince Harry’s Suit Against Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. Tabloids Set to Start

Prince Harry will get his long-awaited day in court against Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids on Monday, as his lawsuit against News Group Newspapers for unlawful gathering of private information finally goes on trial in London. Harry himself is not expected to take the stand for at least the first two weeks of the trial, which […]

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U.K. Announces Rapid Review Into Scale of Child Sexual Abuse by Grooming Gangs

U.K. Announces Rapid Review Into Scale of Child Sexual Abuse by Grooming Gangs

Britain’s government on Thursday bowed to pressure and announced new investigations into child sexual exploitation and abuse, less than a month after Elon Musk, the billionaire tech mogul, used his social media platform X to highlight the issue in a series of vitriolic posts. Speaking in Parliament, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, said she had […]

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Patients Are Dying in Hospital Corridors, British Nurses Say

Patients Are Dying in Hospital Corridors, British Nurses Say

Patients are dying in the corridors of Britain’s hospitals. Pregnant women are receiving miscarriage treatments in semipublic places. Incontinent patients are cleaned next to vending machines. Those are just some of the shocking revelations in a report published on Thursday by the Royal College of Nursing, a British nursing union. In the report, nurses described […]

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Keir Starmer Vows Long-Term U.K. Partnership With Ukraine on Kyiv Visit

Keir Starmer Vows Long-Term U.K. Partnership With Ukraine on Kyiv Visit

Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain met with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kyiv on Thursday, a show of solidarity four days before the inauguration of Donald J. Trump. The trip to Ukraine, Mr. Starmer’s first since he became prime minister over the summer, comes amid a flurry of diplomacy between Kyiv and its […]

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