Britain

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were facing a bleak set of local election results on Friday with voters punishing his party after a year of political scandals, surging ...

King Charles will hold a reception on Friday for world leaders gathered in London for his coronation this weekend, the biggest ceremonial event to be staged in Britain for 70 years. ...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were facing a bleak set of local election results on Friday with voters punishing his party after a year of political scandals, surging inflation ...

Cypriots are disenchanted with the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday, as most have said they will not even be attempting to watch the first such event in over ...

Britain’s services sector kicked off the second quarter with its fastest growth in a year, boosted by new orders, but it passed the cost of rising wage bills on ...

More than 11,000 police officers will patrol London’s streets for King Charles’ coronation on Saturday, the biggest ceremonial event staged in the British capital for 70 years, and they are well ...

Police arrested a man outside Buckingham Palace on Tuesday for throwing what they believe were shotgun cartridges and officers also carried out a controlled explosion in the area, days before ...

Pamela Tawse was 18 and still in her nurse’s uniform and cap when she made her way to central London after her night shift, eager to catch a glimpse of ...

By Andrew MacAskill When King Charles III is crowned in a lavish ceremony on Saturday, Britain’s main anti-monarchist movement will gather along the procession route next to a statue ...

As the UK goes full-on pomp and ceremony on Saturday in Cyprus some more low key events will be held to mark the crowning of the new monarch finds Bejay ...

British healthcare and ambulance workers belonging to the GMB trade union have voted to accept a government pay offer, the union said on Friday, hours after members of another union ...

Britain’s Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said on Friday a vessel off Yemen’s southern coast was involved in an “incident” with a government boat, downgrading the event from ...

The historic Stone of Scone, the ancient coronation stone upon which monarchs in Britain have been crowned for centuries, has left Scotland for London under tight security ahead of next ...

BBC Chairman Richard Sharp resigned on Friday after an independent report found he had breached public appointment rules by not disclosing potential conflict of interest in his role in securing ...

Rishi Sunak faces his first big electoral test as prime minister next week in local polls where the opposition Labour Party hopes to capitalise on a year of chaos for ...

The British government has announced long-awaited proposals to crack down on problem gambling, aiming to bring regulations up to date with the rise in gambling online and on smartphones. The ...

Barclays reported better than expected first-quarter profit on Thursday after a strong performance from its credit card business offset pressure on other business lines. The British bank’s pretax profit ...

Britain on Wednesday ramped up an airlift of its citizens from war-torn Sudan to Cyprus before a 72-hour ceasefire was due to expire, and about 400 people were evacuated so far, ...

Britain saw a record number of working days lost due to short-term sickness last year and zero annual growth in economic output per hour worked in the final quarter of 2022, ...

British foreign minister James Cleverly urged China to be more open about what he called the biggest military build-up in peacetime history and said secrecy around its plans could lead ...

The first flight that arrived from Sudan to Larnaca was welcomed on Tuesday evening by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Constantinos Kombos. According to an announcement by the ministry, the minister ...

First-quarter job opportunities in London’s financial sector plunged by almost a third year-on-year, recruiter Morgan McKinley said on Tuesday, as firms struggle with economic and geopolitical headwinds. The collapse ...

David Hunter told his psychiatrist he knew killing his wife was “horrible and wrong” but he would do it again so he wouldn’t see her suffer, Paphos criminal court ...

Len Goodman, the head judge on British television dancing competition “Strictly Come Dancing” and its U.S. version “Dancing with the Stars”, has died aged 78, the BBC said on Monday. ...