Britain

Britain’s new finance minister, Rachel Reeves, told parliament her Conservative predecessor had left public spending on track to go over budget by 21.9 billion pounds ($28 billion) this year and announced ...

Two children were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed event in northwest England, and a 17-year-old male suspect was arrested, police said on Monday. He was held on suspicion ...

The Bank of England’s first interest rate cut since 2020 hangs in the balance next week, with greater uncertainty than usual as key policymakers have not spoken publicly for more ...

British hospitals are facing an unprecedented shortage of blood supplies due to disruption from an ongoing cyber attack, health authorities said on Thursday, as they imposed limits on blood use ...

Four high street banks, HSBC, Lloyds, TSB and Allied Irish Bank (AIB), broke Britain’s competition rules, the Competition and Markets Authority said in a statement on Thursday. It did ...

A video showing a British police officer kick and stamp on a man’s head during an arrest at Manchester airport in northern England sparked a protest outside a police ...

A jump in British household savings since the COVID-19 pandemic appears here to stay and cannot be fully explained by higher interest rates or unemployment fears, according to the country’...

Britain’s Conservative Party said on Monday it will name its new leader on Nov. 2, following the party’s worst-ever election performance this month that prompted former Prime Minister Rishi ...

Gary Lineker once again topped the BBC pay list in the 2023-24 financial year, receiving more than 1.35 million pounds for presenting “Match of the Day” and other sports coverage for ...

Two survivors of a deadly suicide bombing in Britain are suing a conspiracy theorist who claims the attack was staged – a case with echoes of lawsuits brought by relatives of ...

By George Georgiou Something is rotten in the state of Denmark Marcellus That one may smile and smile and be a villain Hamlet, Act 1 All imperial powers eventually wither away. ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed British government ministers on Friday, a rare appearance by a foreign leader at a cabinet meeting that new Prime Minister Keir Starmer hopes will underline ...

Britain’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer, called on Thursday for closer cooperation in Europe to advance support for Ukraine and tackle the continent’s most pressing problems: illegal migration, ...

 Britain’s new government said on Wednesday it would scrap an amnesty scheme for ex-soldiers and militants involved in decades of violence in Northern Ireland that has been opposed by ...

Britain’s King Charles set out Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s legislative agenda on Wednesday, promising a government of service focused on reviving the economy and tackling issues from an ...

Spanish authorities confirmed on Tuesday that a body found in a remote area of the island of Tenerife a day earlier was that of missing British teenager Jay Slater and ...

Britain’s deputy prime minister on Tuesday played down comments by U.S. vice presidential contender J.D. Vance that Britain was an Islamist nuclear-armed country, saying he had a ...

Vaughan Gething said on Tuesday he would step down as first minister of Wales, after four ministers resigned from the devolved Welsh government in protest over his leadership. “Having been ...

British police arrested a man on Saturday in connection with the discovery of human remains in two suitcases at a famous bridge in western England last week. The 34-year-old was ...

Britain’s Princess Anne returned to official engagements on Friday, less than three weeks after she needed hospital treatment for concussion sustained from a head injury believed to have been ...

At least 65 long-finned pilot whales have died after being stranded on an island off the north coast of Scotland, a rescue charity said on Thursday, in one of the largest ...

British police said on Wednesday they had located a man wanted in connection with the murder of three women, the wife and two daughters of a BBC horse racing commentator, ...

Britain is likely to lose nearly one in six of its U.S. dollar millionaires by 2028, but their number is set to grow in other countries including the United States ...

The fossil remains of a plant-eating dinosaur estimated to have roamed the earth some 125 million years ago have been discovered on England’s Isle of Wight, with scientists believing it ...