This has been Big Ben’s longest silence. In its 163 years, the bells (and the clock’s hands) have been quieted or slowed just a handful of times — by heavy snow and freezing temperatures ...

A man holds a Palestinian flag after he climbed up Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster in London on March 8. James Manning/Associated Press ...

LONDON (WKRC) - A man climbed the tower that holds Big Ben while barefoot and holding a Palestinian flag and refused to get down for 16 hours. The man, who was not identified by police, climbed ...

The Houses of Parliament's Christmas Tree is a 40-foot Sitka spruce from Kielder Forest, Northumberland, about 340 miles north of London. It was set up at the foot of Big Ben on Nov. 25, according ...

The United Kingdom's next prime minister could be a foreign policy hard-liner NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ben Judah, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, about British Foreign Secretary Liz ...