Spurned Europe wants Britain to leave, soon
Nick Miller 5:19 PM A jilted Europe wants the UK out sooner rather than later, as the European Union Commission president warned that Brexit was "not an amicable divorce".
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How Cameron was caught in the EU trap
David Cameron promised to end the party's appetite for strife over Europe, but he has been destroyed by his decision to feed that hunger.
Nigel Farage: the Brexit king of Britain
There are two things Nigel Farage hates more than anything else in the world: the European Union and David Cameron. Now he has beaten them both.
Trans-Atlantic fallout over Brexit
Paul McGeough 5:38 AM As panic set in among institutional and private investors, the American political and pundit classes spun the shock referendum outcome defensively and cautiously, save for Trump,
Boris Johnson groomed to take over as PM
He was described as a "court jester" during the bitter referendum campaign. But on Friday Boris Johnson was the most powerful Conservative in Britain.
Pope Francis condemns Armenian 'genocide'
Pope Francis waded into turbulent geopolitical waters once again during his first visit to Armenia when he referred to the World War I-era massacre of Armenians as a genocide.
Fury at proposed US gun control measures
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Brexit: Newspaper front pages after Britons vote to leave European Union
Jodie Stephens 7:50 PM "World's most successful newspaper crusade ends in glorious victory," one of Britain's leading newspapers declared the morning after the country's voted to leave the EU.
Spurned Europe wants Britain gone
Nick Miller 5:19 PM A jilted Europe wants the UK out sooner rather than later, as the European Union Commission president warned that Brexit was "not an amicable divorce".
Brexit vote: Young Britons' despair and fear
Claire Barthelemy 5:01 PM The vote to leave the European Union exposed tensions and fault lines in British society, but perhaps none more gaping than its generational divisions.
Overwhelmed by Brexit? This is what it all means
4:49 PM Here's a brief guide to the Brexit referendum, the immediate fallout and the broader impact.
Here's how the Brexit will actually work
Henry Johnson 3:41 PM Some of the most important details of the Brexit will be determined not by British voters, but instead by the very union they want to leave.
Lily Allen's cutting response to Trump on Brexit
Sarah Muller 2:03 PM British singer Lily Allen has called Trump a "moron" in a cutting reply to Trump's inaccurate tweet about the UK referendum.
The 'ordinary guy' who will likely be Iceland's next president
Nick Miller 12:57 PM After the Panama Papers toppled their president, Icelanders were looking for something different. And they found it.
China censorship in overdrive: padded bras, robots, and week-long nights
Javier Hernandez 11:48 AM To the list of things that should not be uttered in modern China, add this: padded bras cause cancer.
Brits Google 'what is the EU?' after Brexit result is announced
10:41 AM The polls had long closed and the result had already been announced: the UK had opted out of the European Union in a landmark referendum.
Donald Trump's Brexit press conference was beyond bizarre
Chris Cillizza 10:12 AM Donald Trump held a press conference early on Friday to talk about Brexit and lots of other things from his golf course at Turnberry. It was another classic of the genre
Brexit leaves the great European project teetering
Michael Lynch 9:25 AM The first thing I ever voted in was not a general election, not a state election, not a council election but a referendum on Britain's place in Europe.
Mayhem sweeps across a disunited kingdom
Nick Miller 8:34 AM Political and economic mayhem swept across the UK on Friday, as the Brexit vote brutally reconfigured the nation's assumptions and prospects.
Abu Sayyaf suspected of kidnapping Indonesians in Sulu Sea
Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies 7:58 AM Seven Indonesians believed to have been kidnapped by the notorious Abu Sayyaf militant group are being kept as hostages.
Trump: 'I see a big parallel' in Brexit vote and my campaign
Kevin Cirilli 3:58 AM There are 'great similarities between what happened here and my campaign,' Trump said in Scotland. 'People want to take their country back.'
Survey shows same-sex couples in America are flocking to the altar
Ben Steverman 2:21 AM Three years after the US Supreme Court forced the federal government to recognise same-sex marriages, LGBT Americans are taking advantage of their new rights.
Migrant crisis: More than 2,000 people rescued from Mediterranean in one day
Steve Scherer 1:23 AM Ship crews pulled more than 2,000 migrants from overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean on Friday, Italy's coastguard said.
