Corinne Purtill

If new minke whale-harvest quotas are imposed on traditional whale hunters of Greenland, the Inuit have threatened to ignore any commitments made by Denmark, which represents the icy territory in the Atlantic Arctic

Buying groceries in far northern Greenland is in some ways similar to shopping in Arctic Alaska -- like the four-pack of toilet paper that costs more than $6 -- though other aspects are worlds apart.

Approaches to regulating paid sex vary widely, and there’s no end in sight to the debate. Sweden made it a crime to buy sex in 1999 — but not to sell it. The government also invested heavily in programs to help women leave prostitution. Norway and Iceland soon passed similar laws.

Sex workers are far more likely to be victims of crime. They’re also more likely to keep silent about it.

Two years after the 2011 riots, communities wonder what recovery really means.

How did a London social worker end up stripped of his British citizenship and charged in a Brooklyn court?

A pilot program from the UK's Home Office, responsible for domestic security and immigration, encourages illegal immigrants to self-deport. The campaign has faced criticism for its tactics, however.

With a backlog of 500,000 cases, the border agency shows no signs of reform months after the government said it would be dissolved.

The latest revelation from Edward Snowden’s leaked papers show the UK received $150 million for its trouble.

Benny Wenda's campaign for West Papuan independence is embarrassing Britain and enraging Indonesia.

How a maritime weather report captured a nation’s heart. The shipping forecast has become as a much a part of the UK’s cultural kitsch as the queen’s corgis: constant, reassuring and ineffably British.

On Tuesday night, Britons turned on their televisions to view something none had ever seen before — the first British murder trial filmed for broadcast.

David Cameron had hoped his initiative against murky financial dealings would headline the annual G8 summit, but Syria has overshadowed the prime minister’s agenda as the leaders of a group representing about half the planet’s wealth gather at a golf resort in Northern Ireland.

Suggestions that the US National Security Agency’s controversial Prism spying program helped security officials in Britain circumvent the law are “baseless,” Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday.

Scotland Yard has stepped up police security at mosques and Muslim community centers around London following a suspected arson attack on an Islamic school this weekend.