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This is three image combo of stills taken from CCTV issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on Feb. 23, 2015, Kadiza Sultana (left), 16, Shamima Begum (center), 15, and and 15-year-old Amira Abase going through security at Gatwick airport, before they caught their flight to Turkey on Tuesday Feb 17, 2015. The three teenage girls left the country in a suspected bid to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State extremist group. (Associated Press/Metropolitan Police)

U.K. police believe 3 missing schoolgirls have entered Syria

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Padge Gordon, also known as Padge Victoria Windslowe. An aspiring rapper known as &quot;the Black Madam,&quot; Windslowe is accused of killing a 20-year-old dancer from London during a procedure that involved silicone buttocks injections and Krazy Glue. Her third-degree murder trial is expected to start Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015 in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department, File)

Murder suspect dubbed ‘Michelangelo of buttocks injections’

By Maryclaire Dale - Associated Press

Illustration on Britain's diminished role in world affairs by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

SUZANNE FIELDS: England’s bewildering identity crisis

By Suzanne Fields

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker leaves after a meeting with Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne at No 11 Downing Street, the Chancellor's official residence, in London, England, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Walker is leading a coalition of Wisconsin government and business officials on a trade mission that runs until Friday. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

Scott Walker: Not ‘wise’ to undermine president while overseas

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, file photo, Sotheby's staff pose for a picture with "Le Grand Canal" by Claude Monet, during a preview of their upcoming Impressionist and Modern, Surrealist and Contemporary Art sale, at the auction house in London, England. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)

Monet means money: Auction nets record $280 million total

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Royal Dutch Shell's CEO Ben Van Beurden speaks during a press conference to give detail on the group's 4th quarter 2013 results in London, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. In Shell Oil’s latest setback in the United States, the company’s new CEO has said the company won’t drill in the Arctic circle off Alaska’s shore in 2014, and may never do so. The decision by Ben van Beurden follows a negative Federal court decision last week. Environmentalists are still challenging whether the government’s 2008 decision to open the area to exploration was correctly granted in the first place. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Shell to revive plans to drill in Arctic

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the British government, Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill tries a Tommy Gun during a visit to north-east England, Aug. 1, 1940, to inspect coastal fortifications and defence works. The background behind Churchill has been blotted out by the censor. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)

CAL THOMAS: Winston Churchill, a man for all times

By Cal Thomas

Bill Cosby jokingly warned a woman in the audience during a show in Canada Thursday night to be careful drinking around him. (Associated Press)

Bill Cosby jokes woman should be careful drinking near him

Associated Press

In this Nov. 21, 2014 file photo, Bill Cosby performs during a show at the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

Bill Cosby returns to stage for 1st time since November

By Rob Gillies - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday June 4, 2013 file photo, Joan Collins arrives for the Glamour Women of the Year Awards at Berkeley Square Gardens London. Collins the diva of &quot;Dynasty&quot; is now a dame. Joan Collins, who played scheming, shoulder pad-wearing Alexis Carrington in the hit 1980s TV show, was made the female equivalent of a knight in Queen Elizabeth annual New Year's honors list. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

‘Dynasty’ dame: Joan Collins honored by queen

By BY JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Actress Luise Rainer poses in her central London apartment in this July 29, 1999, file photo. Rainer, a star of cinema's golden era who won back-to-back Oscars but then walked away from a glittering Hollywood career, has died. She was 104. (AP Photo/Adam Butler, File)

Luise Rainer, first to win consecutive acting Oscars, dies at 104

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘London: A Literary Anthology’

By Martin Rubin

UK youth create Advent video calendar

By Ann Schneible - Catholic News Agency

London banker banned for dodging rail fares

By Vitnija Saldava - Associated Press

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, a math professor and puzzle enthusiast, who helped to break the German code in World War II in "The Imitation Game." (The Weinstein Company VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Graham Moore, ‘Imitation Game’ screenwriter, on codebreaker Alan Turing

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

This is an undated handout photo issued by NATS via the Press Association of the National Air Traffic Control Centre at Swanwick southern England. The European air control agency Eurocontrol says London airspace has been closed due to a computer failure. Officials at London Heathrow Airport said Friday Dec. 12, 2014 there is a power outage at the NATS control center in Swanwick, England. Its statement gave no indication how long this situation was expected to continue. (AP Photo/NATS, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

London hit by air traffic control computer failure

By Gregory Katz and Danica Kirka - Associated Press

This image made from militant video posted online by militants on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Luke Somers, an American photojournalist born in Britain held hostage by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen. Somers has been killed in a failed rescue attempt, his sister said Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. Lucy Somers told The Associated Press that she and her father learned of her 33-year-old brother Luke Somers' death from FBI agents at 0500 GMT (12 a.m. EST) Saturday. (AP Photo/militant video)

Luke Somers killed by al Qaeda in failed U.S. rescue attempt in Yemen

By Ahmed al-Haj - Associated Press

An undated handout image released by the British Museum of a headless sculpture of the river god Ilissos. The British Museum has loaned the sculpture, one of the Elgin Marbles, to the Hermitage Museum in Russia, the first time one of the Parthenon sculptures has been lent. The trustees said Friday the marble sculpture of the river god Ilissos —a reclining male figure from the West Pediment of the Parthenon, will be part of a major exhibition on Greek art. The Hermitage is marking its 250th anniversary. (AP Photo/British Museum)

Greek PM outraged by British Museum sculpture loan

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Singer Taylor Swift performs at the Victoria's Secret fashion show in London, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Taylor Swift stars at Victoria’s Secret show

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press