U.S. President Joe Biden paid his respects at Queen Elizabeth II's coffin as thousands of police, hundreds of British troops and an army of officials made final preparations for the queen's state funeral. The funeral on Monday at Westminster Abbey will be a spectacular display of national mourning that will also be the biggest gathering of world leaders for years. The president made the sign of the cross and put his hand to his heart as he stood quietly near the casket in the ornate 900-year-old Westminster Hall. People across Britain paused for a minute of silence at 8 p.m. to honor the queen. King Charles III, meanwhile, held a reception for heads of state and other leaders Sunday evening at Buckingham Palace.
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King Charles III and his siblings Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward had held a brief vigil beside Queen Elizabeth II's coffin in Westminster Hall on Friday, joining members of the military who have mounted a continuous watch over her remains for the past two days.
A man has been charged after allegedly sexually assaulting two women in the queue for Queen Elizabeth II's lying in state in London on Wednesday, the Crown Prosecution Service told CNN.
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy has cited evidence of atrocities in a mass burial site that has been found in an area recently freed of Russian occupation.
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MIKE CORDER, JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press
The U.K. government says it is temporarily stopping people from joining the line to file past the queen’s coffin as the wait for those at the back hit 14 hours.
A Salt Lake City woman was among the tens of thousands of people who waited in line for hours to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth at Westminster Hall.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian authorities have found a mass burial site near a recently recaptured northeastern city previously occupied by Russian forces.
The head of the World Health Organization says the number of coronavirus deaths last week was the lowest reported number in the pandemic since March 2020, marking what could be a turning point in the years-long global outbreak.
Pope Francis told the Russian Orthodox hierarchy and other faith leaders Wednesday that religion must never be used to justify the “evil” of war, and asked at an outdoor Mass in Kazakhstan, “How many deaths will it take?” for peace to prevail in Ukraine.
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MIKE CORDER, JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press
The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday, borne on a horse-drawn carriage and saluted by cannons and the tolling of Big Ben, in a solemn procession through the flag-draped, crowd-lined streets of London to Westminster Hall.
Highly influential French film director Jean-Luc Godard has died at age 91. His family said Godard died peacefully and surrounded by his loved ones on Tuesday at his home in the Swiss town of Rolle, on Lake Geneva.
At arenas and stadiums across the world, we are witnessing history. Never before has such a grizzled group of rock icons graced so many major stages at the same time.
The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II returned to a drizzly London on Tuesday evening, making its way toward the monarch's Buckingham Palace as crowds lined the route to catch a glimpse of the hearse and to bid her a final farewell.
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As Queen Elizabeth II’s four children walked silently behind, a hearse carried her flag-draped coffin along a crowd-lined street in the Scottish capital to St. Giles' Cathedral.
Authorities in Shanghai have denied a report by a leading Chinese real estate research firm that claimed more than a third of shops in a major mall had been shuttered because of strict COVID-19 curbs.
The last week has seen a stunning transformation of the battlefield in eastern Ukraine, as Ukrainian forces rolled through lines of Russian defenses and recaptured more than 3,000 square kilometers.
