LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gillian Anderson's portrayal of British political leader Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown” was built step by step, from distinctive voice to helmet-hair wig to padded wardrobe....

BRUSSELS (AP) — The president of the European Union's executive arm said Wednesday that the United Kingdom cannot unilaterally change the bilateral Brexit agreement without destroying global trust...

LONDON (AP) — A group of politicians from Britain’s opposition Labour Party have called for “fundamental change” within their party's leadership.

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged Saturday to repay the trust of voters in the working-class heartland of northern England who rejected the Labour Party and helped give...

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged Friday to heal Britain's divisions over Brexit after his gamble on early elections rewarded him with a commanding majority in Parliament and a...

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain's Parliament — a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow...

LONDON (AP) — Boris Johnson's many critics have often dismissed him as a political clown. He's having the last laugh now.

Results Friday confirmed that Johnson's Conservative Party has won a...

LONDON (AP) — Tim Bell, a public relations expert credited with helping former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher win office in 1979, has died at age 77.

After starring roles for Freddie Mercury ("Bohemian Rhapsody"), Elton John ("Rocketman") and the Beatles ("Yesterday"), it's Bruce Springsteen's turn to join the mixtape that the movies have...

"Stone Mothers: a Novel" (Minotaur), by Erin Kelly

An imposing former mental asylum reconfigured as a high-end spa and apartment building looms over a remote England town and over the life...

LONDON (AP) — Theresa May is set to join the ranks of Conservative prime ministers whose time in office has been overwhelmed — and cut short — by the issue of Europe.

LONDON (AP) — The Latest on Brexit (all times local):

9 p.m.

Anti-Brexit protesters flooded into central London by the hundreds of thousands, demanding that Britain's Conservative-led...

LONDON (AP) — Most hosts would be quite happy to have Paul McCartney come to a shindig. But that wasn't the case with Denis Thatcher in 1988 when planning a gala reception at 10 Downing Street.

Newly released papers show that the late husband of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put a question mark next to the former Beatle's name on a proposed guest list he was reviewing.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ruud Lubbers, who as the Netherlands' longest serving prime minister led his country through economic turmoil to prosperity and helped shape the foundations of the European Union, died Wednesday. He was 78.

The Dutch government announced that Lubbers died in Rotterdam surrounded by his wife and children. No cause of death was given.

LONDON (AP) — Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Tuesday warned of Russia's simmering alienation from its western neighbors but said he believed that President Vladimir Putin will ultimately work toward cooperative relationships with countries on its borders.

LONDON (AP) — Theresa May is often compared to Margaret Thatcher, depicted by supporters as a 21st-century Iron Lady. But a bruising election campaign has dented her steely reputation.

Britain's 60-year-old prime minister called a snap election — three years early — for this Thursday in a bid to increase her party's slim majority in Parliament and strengthen her hand in divorce negotiations with the European Union.

LONDON (AP) — Theresa May is often compared to Margaret Thatcher, depicted by supporters as a 21st-century Iron Lady. But a bruising election campaign has dented her steely reputation.

Britain's 60-year-old prime minister called a snap election — three years early — for this Thursday in a bid to increase her party's slim majority in Parliament and strengthen her hand in divorce negotiations with the European Union.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The top Brexit official at the European Parliament thinks British political giants such as Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher would not look kindly on Prime Minister Theresa May turning over the hourglass on her country's withdrawal from the European Union.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on the European Union summit taking place Thursday and Friday (all times local):

9:30 p.m.

Even though Margaret Thatcher earned fame for boldly demanding British money back from European Union coffers, current Prime Minister Theresa May doesn't quite see herself in the same category.

"There is only ever one Margaret Thatcher," May said of the 1980s leader at Thursday's EU summit.

LONDON (AP) — A government riven by feuding faces a shaky global economy and a referendum on Britain's role in Europe.

Those events have been unfolding in real life — and on the London stage, in an eerily timely hit play about political machinations in Parliament more than 40 years ago.

A look at notable state funerals held for some other long-ruling leaders over the past century:

LONDON (AP) — Britain's Home Secretary has rejected holding an inquiry or independent review into violence between police and miners at Orgreave— one of the fiercest clashes of the 1984-1985 miners' strike.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd said Monday she made the "difficult decision" because no deaths or wrongful convictions resulted from the melee at the colliery, on the edge of the city of Sheffield in northern England.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There's no "glass ceiling" keeping a woman from the presidential nomination anymore, but most Americans still think Hillary Clinton's gender will influence the November election. They're just divided on whether it's more of a curse than a blessing.

LONDON (AP) — For Margaret Thatcher, it was handbags. For Theresa May, it's shoes.

The new British prime minister likes to wear boldly patterned kitten heels, and the media is fascinated. May's footwear has been analyzed, photographed and satirized. Photojournalists have captured her shoes in close-up alongside the stilettos of Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the wedge heels of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday:

1. THERESA MAY BECOMES BRITAIN'S NEW LEADER AS DAVID CAMERON EXITS

May becomes the first female prime minister since fellow Conservative Margaret Thatcher served from 1979 to 1990.

2. WHITE HOUSE SEEKING TO EASE TENSION OVER POLICE SHOOTINGS

Obama meets with elected officials, law enforcement leaders and members of the Black Lives Matter movement,...

Within moments of Theresa May's confirmation as the next prime minister of Britain, London tabloids and wags were comparing her to Britain's "iron lady" of the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher. But those taking a closer look see more in common with Europe's most powerful woman today: Germany's "iron chancellor," Angela Merkel.

Both women have a track record of cautious pragmatism. Merkel famously will sit on the fence on many issues waiting for consensus to build before she...

LONDON (AP) — Britain is on course to get its second female prime minister, after Conservative lawmakers chose Home Secretary Theresa May and Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom on Thursday to fight a runoff contest for leadership of the country's governing party.

The race pits a stalwart of the center-right government — May — against a rising star of the party's right. The winner will become the first woman to lead Britain since Margaret Thatcher, who governed from 1979...