LONDON -- Britain begins the day as a member of the European Union. Its status at the end of the day - as a proud nation that has reclaimed its sovereignty, or a diminished presence in Europe and the ...

People are being urged to check their pockets after two 50p Brexit coins minted with the wrong exit date were discovered. It was believed all of them were destroyed - but two surviving coins have now ...

Dec. 31 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1862, the Union ironclad ship USS Monitor sank off Cape Hatteras, N.C., during a storm. Sixteen members of the crew were lost. In 1879, Thomas Edison gave ...

Flying English flags and crying Brexit betrayal, thousands massed outside the British parliament on Friday on what should have been "Independence Day" -- until political paralysis prompted a ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought Thursday to blame the opposition Labour leader for his failure to deliver Brexit, as both men stepped up campaigning on the day Britain had been due to leave the EU ...

Your Diarist would be amiss were he not to wish, all and sundry, a happy “Independence Day.” Doubtless you think either I’m having an “episode” or it’s already the Fourth of July (after the speediest ...