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The UK’s National Gallery in London has renamed the painting “Russian Dancers” by French impressionist painter Edgar Degas to “Ukrainian Dancers” so as to more accurately reflect the subject of the work.
Activism
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian charity worker, who was imprisoned for six years in Iran for “allegedly plotting to topple the Iranian regime” has been released and returned home to the UK.
Activism
Actor Emma Watson made a statement in support of trans rights and inclusion while presenting an award at the BAFTA Awards on Sunday Mar. 13.
Activism
Stella Creasy, a UK MP, had brought her three-month-old son to parliament in a sling and led a debate.
Featured
The police officer who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old British marketing executive, while she was walking home at night, has been sentenced to life in prison.
Featured
Police in the UK have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering Sabina Nessa, a 28-year-old elementary school teacher living in southeast London.
Cute
London Zoo held its annual weigh-in last week on Aug. 26, weighing and measuring all of its 20,000 animals, including lions, penguins, tortoises, squirrel monkeys and camels.
Climate
England’s government has announced plans to ban single-use plastic plates, cutlery and polystyrene cups.
Cute
British diver Tom Daley was spotted knitting while watching the women’s 3 meter springboard final at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday Aug 1.
Activism
After Great Britain’s women’s soccer team took a knee before its Olympics match, women’s soccer teams from around the world have been participating in the protest movement.
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Olivia Breen, a two-time Paralympic champion from Wales, has spoken out after an official said the sprint brief she wore to a long jump competition were “too short and inappropriate.”
Activism
A mural of England soccer player Marcus Rashford in Manchester that was defaced with racist graffiti in the aftermath of the team’s loss to Italy at the Euro 2020 finals has been covered in hundreds of messages of support, solidarity and love.