PM Johnson backs UK bid for 2030 World Cup
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says it is the “right time” for the United Kingdom and Ireland to launch a bid to host the 2030 soccer World Cup, while he added ...
English health authority says vaccines 80 per cent effective at preventing hospitalisations in over-80s
The Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines are more than 80% effective at preventing hospitalisations from Covid-19 in those over 80 after one dose of either shot, Public Health England (PHE) said on Monday, ...
Prince Harry worried history would repeat itself
Prince Harry, who shocked Britain last year when he and his wife Meghan stepped back from royal duties, told U.S. interviewer Oprah Winfrey that he had worried about history ...
UK’s Sunak says public finances won’t be fixed overnight
British finance minister Rishi Sunak said he would not try to fix the public finances overnight, days before he announces a budget plan that is expected to pile more borrowing ...
Military honours and fly-past mark funeral of Captain Tom
A military guard of honour and Royal Air Force fly-past marked the funeral on Saturday of Captain Sir Tom Moore, the World War Two veteran who raised millions of pounds ...
Canada approves AstraZeneca’s vaccine
Canada’s drug regulator approved AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, the third inoculation to get a green light and paving the way for health authorities to accelerate Canada’s ...
Runaway schoolgirl who joined IS cannot return to Britain
A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State should not be allowed to return to Britain to challenge the government taking away her citizenship ...
Heathrow chief wants digital health passports
Digital health checks will be vital to a recovery in foreign travel from the COVID-19 pandemic, Britain’s Heathrow airport said on Wednesday, after a collapse in passenger numbers saw ...
UK’s Prince Philip ‘a lot better’ but to stay in hospital for treatment for infection
Britain’s Prince Philip is getting a lot better, his youngest son said on Tuesday after Buckingham Palace said the 99-year-old husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth would remain in ...
Major airlines see flight, holiday bookings soar on hope for UK travel restart (Updated)
International holiday bookings surged by as much as 600% after Britain laid out plans to gradually relax coronavirus restrictions, giving battered airlines and tour operators hope that a bumper summer could ...
Cautious but irreversible: Johnson sets out England’s lockdown exit plan (Update 2)
By William James and Elizabeth Piper
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out a phased plan on Monday to end England’s Covid-19 lockdown, offering a “cautious” approach to try ...
UK to reopen in stages after driving down S.African variant, Hancock says
Britain has started to drive down cases of the more infectious South African variant of coronavirus and will only emerge from lockdown in stages to make sure that does not ...
Britain to offer all adults a vaccine by end of July (Updated)
All adults in Britain will be offered a first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday ahead of a planned ...
Prince Charles visits father Philip in hospital
Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, on Saturday visited the hospital where his father Prince Philip is being kept as a precaution after feeling ill, a Reuters photographer at ...
No return: Harry and Meghan make final split with British royal family
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have made a final split with the British royal family, telling Queen Elizabeth that they will not be returning as working members of monarchy, ...
Facebook ‘unfriends’ Australia: global uproar as news pages go dark
Facebook’s move to block all media content in Australia faced a worldwide backlash from publishers and politicians on Thursday after blocking news feeds in Australia in a surprise escalation ...
Captain Tom Moore received online abuse in weeks before death
Britain’s Captain Tom Moore, the World War Two veteran who raised millions of pounds for health service workers battling the coronavirus, received online abuse in the weeks before he ...
Queen Elizabeth’s husband, Philip, admitted to hospital
Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s 99-year-old husband, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday evening as a precautionary measure with an ailment that is not COVID related.
“The Duke’s admission ...
UK preparing staged exit from Covid lockdown, pubs to open in May
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering a staged exit from COVID-19 lockdown that would see pubs and restaurants reopen in May, and hospitality and domestic holiday industries not fully ...
Johnson wants ‘cautious but irreversible’ path out of lockdown (Update 2)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday he would plot a cautious but irreversible path out of the COVID-19 lockdown this week after the vaccination of 15 million vulnerable people.
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UK’s Johnson says world needs pandemic treaty
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that world powers should clinch a global treaty on pandemics to ensure proper transparency after the novel coronavirus outbreak which originated in ...
British children in limbo over gender therapy after court ruling
– Almost as soon as she could speak, Nina told her parents she was not a boy and she has lived as a girl since she was seven. Until recently, she ...
Locked down and lonely, London Zoo faces fight to survive (with pics)
London Zoo should be teeming with children released from school by half-term holidays.
But instead, the monkeys’ pranks are unobserved, King Cobra is coiled friendless in the reptile house and ...
England’s quarantine hotels open for arrivals from red listed countries
Passengers arriving in England from Monday from any of 33 “red list” countries will have to spend 14 days quarantined in a hotel room under new border restrictions designed to stop new ...