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One by one, the lulz are coming to an end. Scotland Yard announced Wednesday that it had arrested a 19-year-old it claims is a core member of the hacker group LulzSec who goes by the name “Topiary.” The young hacktivist was captured in a home in the Shetland Islands off the northeast coast of Great Britain, and taken to London for questioning.

Voters in Iceland went to the polls Saturday for a national referendum on whether to repay billions of dollars the country owes to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Great Britain is visiting his nation’s troops in Afghanistan and promising them 200 new patrol vehicles that can resist roadside bombs more effectively.

On Sunday the British public was introduced to what one political journalist has painted as the dark face of the country's prime minister: An angry and abusive man whose rages were so intense the country's top bureaucrat had to intervene to comfort his distressed staff....