Britain

An Australian computer scientist’s claim to be the inventor of bitcoin is “a brazen lie”, lawyers representing a Jack Dorsey-backed group told a London court on Monday as a ...

Britain’s unemployment rate was much lower late last year than previously thought, the Office for National Statistics said on Monday, citing re-weighted survey results that might add to the ...

Northern Ireland‘s parliament appointed an Irish nationalist as First Minister for the first time on Saturday, a historic milestone in a state established a century ago to ensure the ...

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was on Friday cleared of a public order offence as a judge ruled police had no power to arrest her and others at a protest in ...

A man has died after falling from the Tate Modern art gallery building in London, police said on Friday. The death is being treated as unexpected but is not thought ...

Classic 1970s comedy show “Fawlty Towers” is hitting the London stage in May in a new theatrical adaptation, nearly 50 years after the original television series first aired. “Fawlty Towers The ...

Britain unveiled a package of post-Brexit trading measures on Wednesday to strengthen Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom, a move welcomed by local politicians who are now expected ...

The leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said it had reached a deal with the British government on the operation of post-Brexit trade rules that would allow ...

Britain’s King Charles and his daughter-in-law Kate, the Princess of Wales, both returned home from hospital on Monday after undergoing planned treatments. Charles, 75, who had spent three nights in ...

The British public’s expectations for inflation, especially in the short term, have fallen, according to a survey that will feed into this week’s debate at the Bank of ...

British authorities will not decide until next year at the earliest on whether to go ahead with a state-backed digital pound that would provide an alternative to payments operated by ...

Britain’s King Charles went into hospital on Friday to have planned treatment to address an enlarged prostate, Buckingham Palace said, joining his daughter-in-law Kate who is recovering from surgery. ...

Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has repeated calls for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Athens from the British Museum, months after a diplomatic spat with Britain over ...

The Bank of England said on Thursday that its rules requiring banks to “ring fence” their retail arms with bespoke buffers of capital have worked satisfactorily with no major overhaul ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak does not believe his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda would breach international law, his spokesman said, after the president of a human rights ...

British food and drink prices will continue to rise in 2024, contributing to an extended cost-of-living crisis, a prominent grocery industry researcher said on Thursday. Food and drink inflation will be ...

Pay awards from British employers held at their highest sustained level in over 30 years in the last three months of 2023 but deals struck in early 2024 suggest pay growth has peaked, ...

London remains the world’s top financial centre as New York slips into second place, after tying with the UK capital last year, the City of London Corporation’s own ...

Japan’s Fujitsu 6702.T should be contributing hundreds of millions of pounds to pay the compensation bill the British government is expecting to face over the Post Office Scandal, postal ...

It is a close call whether the Bank of England starts trimming borrowing costs next quarter or in July-September, a Reuters poll found, with only a slim majority of economists ...

British businesses are warning of a new wave of post-Brexit trade disruption because EU exporters are not ready for UK customs changes which start this month, and Britain’s port ...

U.S. and British forces carried out a fresh round of strikes on Monday in Yemen, targeting a Houthi underground storage site as well as missile and surveillance capabilities used ...

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, said on Monday she was in shock after being diagnosed with a malignant form of skin cancer, her second cancer diagnosis in a year ...

Britain’s rail network was disrupted, flights were cancelled and thousands of homes were left without power on Monday after the country was battered by Storm Isha overnight. Scotland was ...