Britain

Sarah Mullally will be enthroned as the Church of England’s first female Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide in a ceremony mixing tradition with global ...

British business activity ​has grown at the slowest pace in six months and manufacturers’ input costs accelerated at the fastest rate since 1992, according to a ‌survey that underscores the risks ...

When Sarah Mullally is enthroned as the Church of England’s first female Archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday, she will inherit a task that has eluded her predecessors: uniting a ...

British Chancellor Rachel Reeves said on Tuesday that government support for households to offset the increase in energy costs caused by the conflict in the Middle East would not jeopardise ...

The United Kingdom’s Type 45 destroyer the HMS Dragon has arrived in the waters off Cyprus, British Defence Secretary John Healey said on Monday. He told the country’s parliament ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer summoned a national emergency meeting on Mondayto deal with the economic fallout from the escalating war in Iran, as Britain’s government borrowing costs surged to ...

Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish community organisation in north London were set ablaze in a suspected antisemitic hate crime, police said on Monday, “An investigation has been launched after ...

British home prices are predicted to rise more slowly than previously thought, according to a Reuters poll of housing analysts conducted as expectations for interest rate cuts evaporate following the ...

By Claire Powell The confirmation of foot and mouth disease on a number of livestock units in the Larnaca region on February 20 is a chilling coincidence of dates. Exactly 25 years ...

Campaigners for slavery reparations and scholars have criticised the British monarchy after King Charles posed with Caribbean officials at a London reception beneath a portrait of George IV, who profited ...

An Iranian man and a Romanian woman have been charged after attempting to enter Britain’s nuclear submarine base in Scotland, Police Scotland said on Saturday. The two, who British ...

Prices of alcohol-free beer and houmous will go into calculations of British inflation as shoppers ​prioritise healthier habits, according to the Office for National Statistics. The consumer prices index is ...

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has warned her Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi against further attacks on British bases, the United Kingdom’s foreign office said on Friday, with the Akrotiri ...

The family of a British couple detained in Iran said on Friday the pair were being used as “human shields” during the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and they ...

Britain’s health authorities said on Friday that early laboratory analysis had showed the vaccine being offered to students should protect against the strain of meningitis behind an outbreak in ...

Wimbledon’s plans to expand the grounds for the world’s oldest and most prestigious Grand Slam tennis tournament cleared another hurdle on Thursday, as campaigners’ attempts to block the ...

The Bank of England’s interest rate-setters all voted to keep borrowing ​costs on hold and said they were “ready to act” to see off risks from war in the ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Wednesday announced that it had received a donation amounting to £15,000 (€17,282) from the United Kingdom. The donation brings the total amount donated by the ...

Former British lawmaker Crispin Blunt has been charged with drugs offences, prosecutors said in a statement on Wednesday. Blunt was a member of parliament for the Conservative Party, currently the ...

Five new cases of meningitis have been found in Kent in southeast England, Britain said on Wednesday, taking the total to 20 in what has been called an “unprecedented” outbreak that ...

Britain will invest an additional 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) to ‌unlock jobs for young people, the government said this week, part of a drive to reduce the nearly 1 million 16- to 24...

Gerry Adams, one of Northern Ireland’s best-known political figures, once again denied ever being a member of the paramilitary Irish Republican Army as he gave evidence on Tuesday at ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmersaid on Monday Britain would not be drawn into a wider war in Iran but would work with allies on a “viable collective plan” to reopen the ...

Elon Musk’s Tesla can soon start supplying British homes with electricity after it was granted ​a licence this week, bringing a new competitor into ‌the market at a time ...