The door has opened once again for Patriots former top pick in running back Laurence Maroney. With injuries to Fred Taylor and Sammy Morris, Maroney will get the call as the team travels to England to take on the Buccaneers.

The U.K.'s Student Loans Company has left tens of thousands of students stranded without their loan payments. It's somewhat of a mystery as to what happened, as the universities minister, David Lammy, ordered an inquiry.

A U.K. family was unknowingly the victim of a prank by one of its sons, who painted a giant 60-foot phallus on their new flat roof right after it was completed, hoping it would show up on Google Earth.

The thought of driving to the commuting masses can evoke feelings of frustration and irritation; not less because of the ever increasing difficulties of getting to and from work in many of Britain's towns and cities. But when commuting takes its toll, more than often the thought of going for a leisurely drive can become less appealing.

The British premiere of Vivaldi's L'incoronazione di Dario, directed by David Freeman, will open this summer's Garsington Opera season on 4 June 2008. The festival (4 June – 6 July) also features a new production of Stravinsky's masterpiece The Rake's Progress, directed by Olivia Fuchs, and a revival of John Cox's celebrated 2004 production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte.

Stock markets in Europe have recorded some of their biggest losses in more than six years.

According to an opinion poll conducted in England, a majority of Britons wish Prince William to rule their country as the next British monarch rather than Prince Charles.

Undercurrents, a new exhibition at the River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames takes the viewer under the surface of an imaginary river of words. Drawing a connection between the flow of a river and the narrative flow of stories, artist Cynthia Barlow Marrs creates vibrant canvasses with layers of cut paper and transparent glazes to suggest cross sections through a river.

Business tycoons buy English soccer clubs, England’s matches are screened across the globe and its probably the wealthiest soccer league in the world.

The government reported Monday that a second case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found in eastern England.

Residents living in Norfolk and Suffolk coast have been told to evacuate their homes and seek higher ground as England prepares for what could be a catastrophic storm surge set to hit within the next 48 hours.

In The Footsteps of Henry Taunt, a ground breaking new photography exhibition that charts the social and environmental transformation of the Thames over 135 years through 'then and now' images of the river and its surrounds, has been announced by the River & Rowing Museum.