Updates: Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s Beacon of Stability, Dies. The passing of the queen forces Britain to face its past. It is both incomparable and unfathomable how the death of Queen Elizabeth II, which Buckingham Palace revealed on Thursday, will affect Britain.The end of a figure who served as a living link to the triumphs of World War II Britain, presided over its clumsy adjustment to a post-colonial, post-imperial era, and saw it through its painful divorce...

Her majesty, the Queen of the United Kingdom has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace has announced."The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow," Buckingham Palace said.Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-reigning monarch in British history and the world's oldest head of state.On her death, the Queen's eldest son and heir, Charles, the former Prince of Wales,...

One of the close allies to the Russian President has lost his beloved daughter during a bomb blast. The Russian authorities they had opened a murder investigation after the daughter of influential, ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin was killed by a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow.The Russian Investigative Committee said it believed someone planned and ordered the car explosion that killed Darya Dugina, based on evidence already collected from the blas...