Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous and most enigmatic prehistoric monuments. Dozens of huge standing stones were erected here during the Neolithic period, around 2900 B.C. Who were the men and women who erected such a monument? …

The Vikings were capable sailors who colonized a number of islands such as England, Ireland, and further north, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland. Was Greenland the only territory to have resisted the Vikings? …

A gunman who committed Britain’s worst mass shooting for a decade, murdered all five of his victims in eight minutes and then used his penultimate shotgun cartridge to kill himself. Jake Davison, 22, killed his mother Maxine, 51, and then shot dead four others, including a young child, in the port city of Plymouth before…

The number of children and young people prescribed anti-psychotic drugs in England almost doubled between 2000 and 2019, according to new research. A study by the University of Manchester’s Centre for Women’s Mental Health published in The Lancet Psychiatry looked at the records of 7.2 million children and adolescents, aged 3 to 18, registered at…

The daughter of a convicted killer says she is “disappointed” the Parole Board has cleared her father—who murdered her mother—for release from prison after Britain’s first public parole hearing last year. Russell Causley, 79, was jailed for life in 1996 for the murder of Carole Packman, who disappeared from the family home in Bournemouth, Dorset, in…

Figures show more than a million children need treatment for serious mental health problems, including eating disorders, in the time since lockdowns were imposed in England. NHS data analysed by the PA news agency show a 39 percent rise in a year in referrals for NHS mental health treatment for under-18s, to 1,169,515 in 2021…

LONDON—George Cohen, a defender who played on England’s World Cup-winning team in 1966, has died, the English Football Association said Friday. He was 83. Cohen played every minute of England’s victorious campaign on home soil. He made 37 appearances for his national team as a right back. A cause of death was not announced. Cohen…

England reported 94 deaths, including those of 21 children, from scarlet fever and invasive strep A infections so far this season the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on Thursday. The British government last week said it was enacting protocols to ease shortages of penicillin medicines used to treat strep A infections, allowing pharmacists to…

“Slow down. Slow way down,” is the advice I give when asked to help design an itinerary. Typically, people have two weeks in Europe and want to cram in as many countries as possible. Indeed, the distance between England and Germany is about the same as from New York to Cleveland but with vastly different…

AL KHOR, Qatar—Kylian Mbappe and France made it back to the semifinals of the World Cup on Saturday by beating England 2–1. Olivier Giroud scored in the 78th minute at Al Bayt Stadium to keep France on course to become the first team since Brazil in 1962 to win back-to-back World Cups. Giroud raced away…