“Harry Potter” actress Emma Watson was banned from driving for six months Wednesday after she was caught speeding last year. Watson, 35, who played Hermione Granger, the friend of boy wizard Potter in the hugely popular movie franchise, was banned for driving 38 miles per hour in a 30-mph zone in southeastern Banbury last July. … Read more
London – Two British men were sentenced to more than four years in prison on Tuesday for cutting down one of the most iconic trees in England, the Sycamore Gap Tree. The pair were found guilty in May of what a judge called a “deliberate and mindless” act of felling the tree as an apparent … Read more
At least 13 people were thought to have taken their own lives as a result of Britain’s Post Office scandal, in which almost 1,000 postal employees were wrongly prosecuted or convicted of criminal wrongdoing because of a faulty computer system, a report said Tuesday. Another 59 people contemplated suicide over the scandal, one of the … Read more
Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male Humboldt penguins, are stepping up to raise a chick at Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom. The chick is one of 10 born during what zoo team manager Zoe Sweetman described in a Thursday news release as a “bumper year for the penguins here.” Humboldt penguins are one … Read more
A stash of “unusually large” 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists searching for an explanation, they told AFP on Thursday. Eight large shoes, including one measuring nearly 13 inches long – equivalent to size 49 in Europe and size 15 in the US – have been found … Read more
Catherine, Princess of Wales, said Wednesday during a visit to a cancer support center that recovering from the disease was akin to riding “a rollercoaster” as she spoke of going through “hard times” during her recovery journey. Kate, as she is widely called, is married to heir-to-the-throne Prince William and revealed she had been diagnosed with … Read more
Barcelona recorded its hottest June in more than a century, the summit of Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower was closed to visitors and hundreds of French schools closed on Tuesday as Europe sizzled in its first major heat wave of the summer. Health warnings remained in effect in several European countries. The worst heat was felt … Read more
London — Three former senior leaders at the British hospital where nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter, police said Tuesday. All three were part of the senior leadership team at the Countess of Chester Hospital in the northwest of England between 2015 and … Read more
A 92-year-old man on Monday was convicted of the rape and murder of a woman in southwestern England in what is thought to be the U.K.’s longest-running cold case ever to be solved. A jury at Bristol crown court found Ryland Headley, then aged 34, guilty of attacking 75-year-old Louisa Dunne in June 1967. “Louisa … Read more
A woman in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to 28 months in prison for jewelry theft, after selfies that showed her “dripping in diamonds” on a cruise tipped off a criminal investigation, police said. Lucy Roberts, 39, was convicted of stealing more than £124,000 worth of jewelry and cash from a luxury store that … Read more