Britain

France and Britain sought answers on Thursday on how to deter migrants from trying to cross the sea separating them after 27 people died making the attempt in an inflatable dinghy, ...

Charging points for electric vehicles will be required to be installed in new buildings in Britain from next year under new legislation to be announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, ...

British and French officials traded blame on Wednesday after 27 migrants died when their dinghy deflated as they made a perilous crossing of the English Channel. The accident was the worst ...

Claims that Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea on the instruction of Vladimir Putin have been ruled as defamatory in the High Court. Chelsea owner Abramovich has received early vindication of his ...

Barbados, a former British colony, will next week ditch Queen Elizabeth as head of state, breaking its last remaining imperial bonds with Britain nearly 400 years since the first English ship ...

British businesses reported the fastest growth in new orders since June this month alongside record cost pressures, according to a closely watched business survey that could pave the way for ...

The boss of the British Airways owner, IAG (ICAG.L), said on Monday its transatlantic bookings had already reached nearly 100 per cent of 2019 levels after the United States dropped restrictions ...

Britain will review its COVID travel rules in January and is looking at reforming its airport slots system as part of a wider new aviation strategy, minister Robert Courts said ...

Shares in Marks & Spencer (MKS.L) rose as much as 3.8 per cent in early trading after a report in The Sunday Times said US investment firm Apollo Global Management (...

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said his concern on the inflation outlook is that it could be “elevated for longer” but there is also a chance that inflation does ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a cross-government review into the migrant crisis as he is “exasperated” by a failure to stem the number of crossings from France, The ...

Auction houses and shoppers seeking new clothes for the Christmas holidays lifted British retail sales last month by more than expected, adding to recent signs that a slowdown in the ...

Britain will proscribe Palestinian militant group Hamas as a terrorist organisation, its interior ministry said on Friday, a move that would bring its position on Gaza’s rulers in line ...

British retailer Marks & Spencer (MKS.L) has struck a deal to sell some of its food products in Costa Coffee outlets, the companies said on Thursday. They said that ...

The European Union won’t suddenly pull up the “drawbridge” on Britain’s financial services sector, and reducing reliance on the City of London for euro clearing could take years, ...

An F35 fighter from Britain’s biggest aircraft carrier crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, though the pilot ejected and was safely returned to the ship. The pilot ejected ...

Rolls-Royce (RR.L) has asked Britain’s government for clearance to begin the 4-5 year long process of seeking regulatory approval for its small modular nuclear reactor, it said on ...

British inflation surged to a 10-year high last month as household energy bills rocketed, according to data on Wednesday that will bolster expectations that the Bank of England will raise ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday that the issue of the Parthenon sculptures, which Greece wants returned from London to Athens, was one ...

Tesco, Britain’s largest retailer, was the only one of the country’s big four grocers to grow sales in the last 12 weeks, increasing its sector dominance in the run-up ...

British employers hired more people in October after the government’s job-protecting furlough scheme ended, potentially easing the lingering concerns at the Bank of England about the risks of raising ...

Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to move its corporate headquarters and tax base to London may win over shareholders but it has struck a blow to Dutch prestige. As the ...

Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) said on Monday it would scrap its dual share structure and move its head office to Britain from the Netherlands, pushed away by Dutch taxes ...

Britain’s COVID-19 booster vaccine rollout is to be extended to people aged between 40 and 49, officials said on Monday, in a bid to boost waning immunity in the population ahead ...