Telegraph.co.uk
| Apr 22, 2013
Police are seeking three masked men-in-black who robbed an Oldham convenience store in northeast England armed with knives and swords. A shop worker's finger was badly cut by one of the samurai-sword-wielding thugs, and a second worker needed sti...
Associated Press
| Apr 2, 2013
Thieves set off this overkill explosion at a gas station in England to rip apart a cash machine, allowing them to make off with the money inside. No one was injured, but the Weyhill gas station was severely damaged. It was all captured on surveill...
Newsy
| Mar 10, 2013
No, Stonehenge wasn't initially intended as a site for Druid worship or astronomical observations, as many believe, argue some experts. The mesmerizing ancient boulder complex was preceded by a circle of stones, created in 3,000 BC as a huge grave...
Channel 4 News
| Feb 13, 2013
Labor MP Anas Sarwar jokingly asks if answers about Europe's horsemeat scandal will be "all bull" as Prime Minister David Cameron takes questions in the House of Commons. It causes quite a stirrup. The issue is far from funny, however, as official...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Feb 13, 2013
This CCTV footage shows the appalling impact of a car running into a mother and her toddler as they cross a street in Coventry, England, then speeding off. Miraculously, both survived the crash relatively unscathed. The toddler appears to bounce b...
Channel 4 News
| Feb 10, 2013
A month-old baby was attacked by a fox as the boy lay in his bed in his home in south London. The baby was dragged by the animal, which tore off his finger, later reattached by surgeons, before he was rescued by his mother. The fox had apparently ...
Euronews
| Feb 5, 2013
Who says art sales are struggling? A 1932 portrait of his muse and mistress by Pablo Picasso has sold for $45 million at a Sotheby's auction in London. The auction of impressionist, modern and surrealist art, largley featuring works by Austrian...
Channel 4 News
| Jan 31, 2013
A lump of waxy matter from the belly of a queasy sperm whale has made a British man $80,000 richer. He found the valuable 6-pound lump of ambergris, which is prized by perfume makers, when he was walking his dog on a beach in northern England and ...
ITN News
| Jan 30, 2013
Teenage female education activist Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head in Pakistan, is going to be back on the operating table in England to have a titanium plate inserted in her head and will undergo a procedure aimed at restoring some hearing in h...
International Business Times
| Jan 16, 2013
At least two people were killed when a helicopter crashed into a crane atop high-rise construction site St. George Tower in London, the BBC is reporting. The helicopter toppled in flames into two cars on the ground near the Vauxhall commuter...
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. The Irish Sea lies north west of England, whilst the Celtic Sea lies to the south west. The North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in 927 AD, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law - the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world - developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation.
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