Officials in Britain have announced plans to start calling Big Ben the "Elizabeth Tower," in honor of the Queen's 60th anniversary. "Just what I've always wanted," the Queen says (probably). No word on how Big Ben himself feels about this, or whether he was even consulted. The date of the official name change has yet to be determined, but you'd better believe it will for sure be the last day anyone, anywhere in the world calls the tower "Big Ben" ... Discuss

If you think you know where bacon, eggs and milk come from, you might want to double-check and make absolutely sure that you're right. Because a new study shows 1 in 3 young British adults have no idea ... Discuss

Today would have been the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens—and true fans of the celebrated English novelist can celebrate his life and work at Dickens World. Yes, there is an attraction in England that recreates life in the Victorian period as told by Dickens. Visitors can go on the Great Expectations Boat Ride, tour a haunted house and spend a day lamenting this campy monument to classic literature ...

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British police arrested five suspects for keeping slaves in Bedfordshire on Sunday under a new anti-slavery law passed last year.  The group had lured men from England and Eastern Europe to a trailer park where they imprisoned them and forced them into manual labor, some for as long as 15 years...

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