British culture
"Djokovic is tough to bet against!"
The Serbian tennis player is a four-time consecutive champion and has a winning streak on the All-England Club for 28 matches.
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Charles III was crowned King of the United Kingdom
British King Charles III was officially crowned after the Archbishop of Canterbury placed the crown of St. Edward on his head.
At the King's coronation, cannon salutes were fired from military bases across the country and from His Majesty's ships at sea.
As he prepared to place the crown on Charles' head, Justin Welby said:
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President Sakellaropoulou to attend coronation of Charles III
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou will travel to London on Friday to attend the coronation of British monarch Charlies III.
UK royals unveil emoji for coronation
Britain's royal family revealed new details on April 9 about King Charles III's coronation next month, including a new Twitter emoji based on the crown the monarch will wear at the landmark ceremony.
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Tate’s neighbors win privacy appeal
Owners of luxury flats in London on Wednesday won a legal battle to force the adjacent Tate Modern gallery to stop visitors peeping into their homes from a public viewing platform.
The Supreme Court announced that by a majority of three to two judges had agreed their appeal due to "intense visual intrusion," after they lost at earlier hearings.
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BBC marks 100 years facing questions about its future
On Nov. 14, 1922, the clipped tones of the BBC's director of programs, Arthur Burrows, crackled across the airwaves."This is 2LO, Marconi House, London calling," he announced, and with that, public service broadcasting in Britain was born.
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UK offers £400 mln to aid culture’s COVID recovery
Britain is to offer hundreds of millions of pounds in grants to aid the recovery of cultural venues and heritage sites hit by the pandemic, the government announced on April 2.
Some 2,700 organizations including the Glastonbury music festival will benefit from the grants which amount to £400 million ($550 million and 470 million euros), the ministry of culture said in a statement.
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'Wish you were here': Postcards help Germans connect in pandemic
Brightly colored rectangles of cardboard fill almost every wall of Gesa Funke's apartment in southern Berlin, with piles more stashed in corners and drawers - some from places as far-flung as French Polynesia.
The 29-year-old student has been sending and collecting postcards for years.