One of the nation’s largest July Fourth fireworks shows will be held on the Hudson River this year to celebrate the 400th anniversary of English explorer Henry...

U.A. Fanthorpe, a highly regarded English poet who was first inspired by the human tragedy she saw in a neurological hospital, has died at age 79.

The most successful clubs in soccer’s richest league have some of the biggest debts in the sport.

Is the end near for the English gentleman of privilege?

British police say they have made two arrests in connection with the discovery of a man’s body parts strewn across the English countryside.

Simeon Varlamov is a man of few words _ especially the English kind.

English classes for immigrants in Binghamton, N.Y., have resumed for the first time since a gunman’s deadly rampage nearly three weeks ago.

Five major pharmacy chains agreed Tuesday to print drug instructions at their New York stores in five languages other than English and indicated that they plan to...

Experts searching for alternative Maori names for New Zealand’s two main islands were startled to find their commonly used English names _ North Island and South...

Experts searching for alternative Maori names for New Zealand’s two main islands were startled to find their commonly used English names _ North Island and South...

The Supreme Court seemed to divide into liberal and conservatives camps Monday during arguments in a case that could limit the power of federal courts to tell states to...

English translation of excerpts from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the U.N. racism conference:

A British parliamentary report has accused heavily indebted Premier League clubs Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool of engaging in “financial...

The Supreme Court on Monday takes up an Arizona case that could limit a federal court’s power to tell states to spend more money to educate students who...

To Seamus Blake’s immigrant parents from Ireland, the language of prosperity was English.

Fritzie Fritzshall gazed up at the illuminated wall and scanned the rows of victim names engraved in Hebrew, Yiddish and English, when one suddenly jumped out: Bella.

The California Senate has voted to make it illegal to hold events that require participants to speak English in a move prompted by the LPGA Tour’s English-only...

“Ragtime” novelist E.L. Doctorow and Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul were among the 14 finalists announced Wednesday for the Man Booker International Prize,...

An adult education student in a Detroit suburb has pleaded no contest to threatening to burn his English teacher as a witch and been sentenced to time served in jail.

Manchester United has beaten Tottenham 4-1 in a penalty shootout to win English soccer’s League Cup.