From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. We're going to venture out onto the sea now off the coast of Britain. Yesterday, we heard about a British cultural institution called ...

In a little room near the top of a tower, people stand in a circle. Each holds a rope wrapped with a few feet of soft carpet as a handle, and when someone shouts, everyone pulls. At first you hear ...

LONDON (AP) — Church bells toll across United Kingdom to honor Queen Elizabeth II. Got a question? Put a reporter on it. Ever think of a question that you wish someone would answer? Let us know and we ...

“You owe me five farthin’s. Said the bells of St. Martin’s.”And when will you pay me?” Asked the bells of Old Bailey, “When we grow rich!” Cried the bells of Shoreditch.”And when will that be?” Chimed ...

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left “a sonic gap” in the landscape. A bell inside the Dom Tower in Utrecht, the ...

Villagers in a beautiful UK village have slammed the forced silencing of their church bells as a "ridiculous" campaign waged by three unhappy residents. St Michael's Church in Mytholmroyd, West ...