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• UK bill that would ban the boiling of live lobsters, crabs gains traction

  November 23, 2021 9:55 AM

  A bill that states octopuses, crabs, and lobsters feel pain and for this reason, should not be boiled alive is gaining traction in the United Kingdom. According to CNN , the UK government commissioned a report on the matter from experts at the London School of Economics (LSE). ... more »

• Man charged with murdering UK lawmaker David Amess

  October 21, 2021 9:00 AM

  A 25-year-old man has been charged with the deadly stabbing of United Kingdom MP David Amess, according to the BBC News . Officials announced Thursday morning that a London resident named Ali Harbi Ali is in custody and is due to appear in Westminster Magistrates' Court later Thursday afternoon.... more »

• CDC investigates new Delta-related coronavirus variant, AY.4.2

  October 21, 2021 6:42 AM

  A subtype of the Delta variant, called AY.4.2, is causing an increasing number of infection cases in the United Kingdom. AY.4.2 is still "very rare" in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "It is well below 0.05 percent of all our sequenced... more »

• English actress, Jessie Cave, announces her young son has COVID

  January 5, 2021 11:05 AM

  Actress, Jessie Cave says her nearly four-month-old son has novel coronavirus. Cave, who played Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter franchise, took to Instagram on Tuesday to post an image of her son in a hospital room, alongside a laptop playing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech announcing a... more »

• UK to begin administering vaccines next Tuesday

  December 4, 2020 12:56 PM

  The United Kingdom is moving swiftly in its efforts to see a COVID-19 vaccine administered to the country's populace. According to National Public Radio , the U.K. plans to administer its first doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech developed vaccine Tuesday, Dec. 8 government and health officials say. ... more »

• Anti 5G activists, believing cell phone use and COVID-19 are linked, destroy cell towers across the U.K.

  April 21, 2020 8:55 AM

  LONDON — Officials in Europe and the U.S. are concerned by the rising number of conspiracy theorists who've begun to set fire to cellular radio towers across the United Kingdom. ABC news reports that anti 5G activists who believe there is some sort of link between new 5G mobile... more »

• After setting world record Mondo Duplantis tops it again

  February 15, 2020 4:23 PM

  GLASGOW, U.K. - Former LSU track and field star Mondo Duplantis broke his own record. Duplantis, 20, set an indoor pole vault world record of 6.17 meters on Feb. 8 beating the previous record of 6.16 meters. On Saturday Duplantis broke the world record he set... more »