Lianna Brinded

Over the last year, it got a lot more expensive to make sure Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stayed safe.

Britain, alongside other wealthy nations, has a loneliness epidemic and it’s killing people. The UK government even appointed a loneliness minister to tackle the problem.

Europe’s largest Jewish communities are enduring a level of mainstreamed anti-Semitism “not seen since the Second World War,” the European Jewish Congress said yesterday (April 11), placing blame on both the left and the far-right.

Diplomatic relations between Russia and the West haven’t been this frosty since the Cold War. A meeting today of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) could determine whether they get even chillier.

Britain’s colossal task of severing ties with the European Union isn’t simply a matter of settling divorce proceedings on big ticket items, such as the Irish border and immigration rules—it involves wading through 19,000 EU rules and deciding what it will and won’t keep in UK law.

Donald Trump won’t be getting an invitation to the wedding of the UK’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Neither will UK prime minister Theresa May—or any other head of state, for that matter.

Although Britain voted to leave the European Union, a number of Brits are applying to retain their EU citizenship by getting passports from countries that will remain members of the bloc, according to the latest data from Eurostat (pdf).

London and New York have nearly the exact same population. And now for the first time in recent history, London has overtaken New York in murders—there were more slayings in the UK capital in February and March than in America’s largest city.

On March 29, 2017, Britain’s prime minister Theresa May signed a document triggering Article 50, kicking off the two-year negotiation period for the UK to leave the EU.

New research shows that there’s a strong link between the rating a firm receives from current employees on review site Glassdoor and the group’s performance.

Britain’s prime minister Theresa May put the UK on a course to the point of no return a year ago, when she triggered Article 50 on March 29, formally notifying the European Union it was leaving. From that date, the UK had two years to sort out a divorce deal from the remaining 27 European members.

Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary of the UK, was unequivocally scolded by the leader of the House of Commons, for being sexist.

We are nearly one year to the day when Britain will leave the European Union. But the only definitive plan executed by the UK government so far is the rolling out of a blue passport for when Brexit happens on March 29, 2019.

Londoners woke up to a jarring sight today (March 26). Standing on top of the buildings owned by one of Britain’s biggest broadcasters, ITV, 84 sculptures of men loomed over the UK capital. Dressed in ordinary, casual clothes, they don’t look like statues from a distance—they look like a big group of men about to jump to their deaths.

Amazon has knocked Google off the top spot as the best place to work in the world, according to LinkedIn.

Facebook has taken its apologies for the Cambridge Analytica scandal offline.

Chrissy Teigen, an American model who became an even more popular celebrity through her prolific and often humorous use of social media, just dealt Snapchat a blow.

Donald Trump is reportedly on the cusp of expelling dozens of Russian diplomats from the US, following the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, in Britain, says Bloomberg.

Yesterday (March 23), Spain’s Supreme Court ruled that 25 leaders of the autonomous region of Catalonia should be tried for rebellion, embezzlement, or disobeying the state. Some of them have already been detained and held without bail pending trial. If convicted, they face 30 years in jail.

Today (March 22) marks the two-year anniversary of the Brussels bombings as well as the one-year anniversary of the Westminster terrorist attack. A wave of violence including the spate of attacks across France has Europe trying to figure out how to tackle radicalization and better share information among governments, law-enforcement agencies, and religious communities.

London’s thriving tech scene has long been top of mind for mayor Sadiq Khan. Since taking office in 2016, Khan backed a tech fund that created 1,000 jobs and launched a TechInvest program to get artificial-intelligence startups to bid for cash. He also lends himself to opening huge tech events; at one such event, Khan said he wanted to turn London into a “world-leading smart city.”

It’s World Water Day on Mar. 22, and the World Health Organization wants to remind Europe that many people in the region, classified as 53 countries, drink dirty water—and many people don’t even realize it.

The city with the best quality of life in the world is Vienna, Austria, according to one of the globe’s most comprehensive studies geared towards expats.

Artificial intelligence is already an integral part of our lives. From Google Maps to Alexa, AI makes our lives more convenient. Less visibly, AI has helped streamline operations across a range of industries by automating mundane tasks.