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Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home Saturday. Winehouse was only 27.

The cause of her death was not immediately known.

"Enquiries continue into the circumstances of the death. At this early stage it is being treated as unexplained," the Metropolitan Police said. more >>

The world famous wedding dress worn by Dutchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton has gone on display at Buckingham Palace in London and is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of tourists and visitors over the summer months. 

Rupert Murdoch, the chief of News Corporation at the center of the cell phone hacking scandal, had his suit splattered with shaving foam after a protester hurled a foil pie aiming for his face during a hearing with British lawmakers Tuesday followed by a call by Prime Minister David Cameron to move on to “issues that matter.”

Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of News Corp., the world’s second-largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue, escaped the brunt of the attack as a group of people including his wife Wendi Deng fought off the man who rushed forward from the public gallery two hours into the hearing session, according to BBC.

The attacker was identified as 26-year-old Jonathan May-Bowles, a member of the opposition Labour Party. Just before the incident, he tweeted under the account Jonny Marbles: “It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat,” which resembles a quotation from the last sentence of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. more >>

Religious leaders within the Church of England believe there is a real crisis when it comes to the future of the church, saying it will be dead in the next 20 years.

The Rev. Patrick Richmond, a Synod member from Norwich, warned the national assembly last week that the Church of England is entering into a "perfect storm" with an overabundance of elderly members. Richmond basically believes the Church of England as a whole is "dying off" because of the number of senior citizens attending church in comparison to younger members.

However, records from the Archbishops' Council's Research and Statistics Unit tell a different story. more >>

Christians should be given some leeway to follow their beliefs in the workplace, the U.K.’s equality watchdog has determined.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission said judges had interpreted the law “too narrowly” in cases where Christians had claimed religious discrimination.

It is backing four British Christians who have lodged religious discrimination cases with the European Court of Human Rights. more >>

As News of the World bid the nation “Thank you and goodbye” with its last ever edition Sunday, the Church of England has called upon its owner, News Corp, to undertake a proper investigation into phone hacking allegations.

In a letter to News Corp, the Church of England’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group said that the behaviour of the News of the World had been “utterly reprehensible and unethical.”

It welcomed the decision to close the paper after 168 years in print, but said this action was “not a sufficient response to the revelations of malpractice at the paper.” more >>