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French Port City Becomes Final Way Station For Some Migrants' Odysseys

4:26pm August 07, 2015

by Ari Shapiro

Thousands of migrants have found themselves stranded in the French port of Calais. Most are waiting for a chance to illegally enter Britain, but others trying to create a new life in France.

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Before her surprise birthday party, Winnie Blagden said, "I'm not expecting anything marvelous, no."

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Woman Turns 100 Without Any Family, But With Thousands Of Good Wishes

12:54pm June 01, 2015

by Bill Chappell

When word got out that England's Winnie Blagden would turn 100 on Sunday and had no living relatives, thousands of people sent cards and gifts.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby waits at the entrance to Leicester cathedral where the reinterment ceremony of Richard III was held Thursday.

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Richard III, Whose Remains Were Found Under A Parking Lot, Reburied

2:44pm March 26, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The last English king to die in battle was finally given a burial fit for a king — some 530 years after he was killed.

Surveillance footage shows three British girls who are believed to be on their way to Syria to join the Islamic State.

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U.K. Police Look For 3 Missing School Girls Suspected Of Heading To Syria

5:56pm February 20, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

The teenagers left home on Tuesday and took a flight to Turkey. Authorities suspect they are headed to Syria, lured by Islamic State militants.

Garry Usher oversees the five lamplighters employed by British Gas. Each night, members of his crew wind up, by hand, the clocks that control when the lamps, like this one at St. John's church in Smith Square, turn on and off.

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Carrying The Torch For London's Last Gas Lamps

6:33pm January 15, 2015

by Ari Shapiro

British Gas still has five employees who work as lamplighters, tending to the more than 1,000 centuries-old gas lamps that still line some of London's oldest neighborhoods.

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For This Reindeer, The Game Is Hide And Seek

7:44am December 02, 2014

Tinsel, a rare albino reindeer who is the main attraction at a Christmas tree farm in England, has hoofed it. After escaping his enclosure, he remains on the loose.

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An enlarged image of the skull identified as that of King Richard III. Jo Appleby, a lecturer in human bioarchaeology at the University of Leicester, is pointing to a detail.

Royal Recovery: Remains ID'd As Those Of King Richard III

6:10pm February 04, 2013

by Mark Memmott

A skeleton discovered under what's now a parking lot in the English city of Leicester is that of the warrior king, researchers say. They identified him by matching DNA to that of a distant relative who's alive today.