Britain

President Nikos Christodoulides and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak spoke over the phone on Wednesday discussing the crisis in the Middle East and Cyprus’ support in the evacuation of British ...

Growth in British workers’ regular pay – which is being watched closely by the Bank of England – slowed from a previous record high and job vacancies also dropped, official figures showed ...

British clothing and food retailer Marks & Spencer (MKS.L) said on Monday it plans to recruit 10,000 temporary workers for the Christmas season, a more than 40 per cent increase on ...

Asking prices for homes in Britain have risen at their slowest pace for the time of year since 2008, property website Rightmove said on Monday in a latest sign of how ...

Almost one in three British adults expect to spend less on Christmas this year, with most blaming the rising cost of living, according to survey data published by PwC on ...

Finance executives at top British firms are more wary about borrowing than at any time since at least 2007, according to a survey which underscored how the climb in interest rates ...

Britain and South Korea have agreed to extend a period of low or zero tariffs on bilateral trade by two years, ahead of talks to forge a new trade deal, ...

Britain’s financial regulator this week said it was stopping peer-to-peer platform rebuildingsociety.com from approving financial promotions for Binance and other crypto asset firms, days after Binance announced it ...

Big banks in Britain are preparing for any future escalation of Western sanctions on China and have shared their “scenario planning” with the British and US governments, a senior banking ...

The British government issued a rare rebuke on Thursday to the Football Association (FA) for its decision not to light up Wembley Stadium’s arch in blue and white in ...

Ex-Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone was spared an immediate prison sentence on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to misleading Britain’s tax authority about overseas assets worth more than 400 million ...

The United Kingdom’s economy partially recovered in August after a sharp drop in July but the bigger picture remained one of only sluggish growth after last year’s surge ...

British employers cut their job vacancies for the first time in more than two-and-a-half years in September and reduced their hiring again, a recruiters’ industry body said on Wednesday, adding ...

London’s Luton Airport resumed flights on Wednesday after they were suspended for nearly 18 hours due to a fire involving a diesel car that set off a major blaze, partially ...

Britain is set to have the slowest-growing economy among the Group of Seven nations next year – when the country is likely to choose a new government – according to forecasts published ...

UK pension funds are rushing to sell unlisted assets – often at a discount – because they are overexposed to the opaque $12 trillion global private market as regulators question the true value ...

Consumers in Britain held off on much of their non-essential spending last month as rising prices for motor fuel compounded the broader hit from the high cost of living, according ...

Scotland’s leader Humza Yousaf said on Monday that his wife’s parents were “trapped” in Gaza, leaving him worried if they will survive an attack by Israel The parents ...

Labour’s finance policy chief Rachel Reeves promised on Monday to “rebuild Britain” if in government, vowing to deploy “iron-clad” fiscal rules, crack down on fraud and work with business ...

Government lawyers told Britain’s top court on Monday there was a serious and pressing need for its plan to deport migrants to Rwanda, one of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’...

Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Sunday said it would speed up connections to the country’s National Grid network as part of investment in clean energy infrastructure and to ...

Britain’s opposition Labour Party gathers in northern England this weekend for its annual conference seeking to cement its huge lead in opinion polls as it boasts of record business ...

Britain’s opposition Labour Party won a bigger-than-expected victory in an election for a parliamentary seat in Scotland on Friday, raising expectations they can unseat Scottish nationalists and go on ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday set out plans to overhaul post-16 education in England with a new qualification and promised a tax-free bonus of up to 30,000 pounds ($36,372) to ...