Sotheby’s is set to auction off six shirts worn by Lionel Messi during Argentina’s winning run at last year’s soccer World Cup in Qatar
A former chief scientific adviser says Boris Johnson struggled as British prime minister to come to grips with much of the science during the coronavirus pandemic
Britain’s Conservative government has sought to regain the political initiative with a series of tax cuts for businesses and individuals that it hopes will boost its chances in a national election next year that opinion polls suggest it will lose
Violent clashes have broken out in central Dublin after a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured in a knife attack that also saw a woman and two other young children hospitalized
The British government has apologized to the families of 97 Liverpool soccer fans killed in a stadium crush 34 years ago
British poet, political activist, musician and actor Benjamin Zephaniah has died at age 65
The Bank of England has kept borrowing rates unchanged despite mounting worries over the state of the British economy
Inflation in the U.K. as measured by the consumer prices index has eased back to its lowest level in more than two years
The longest planned strike in the history of Britain’s state-funded National Health Service has entered its second day of six with doctors in England at loggerheads with hospitals over requests for some to return to work to cover urgent needs
The anti-poverty organization Oxfam International says the world could have its first trillionaire within a decade
Fujitsu, the company whose faulty computer accounting system resulted in the wrongful conviction of hundreds of Post Office branch managers across the U.K., has apologized to the victims for its role in the country’s biggest ever miscarriage of justice and said it was long aware that the software had bugs
British oil giant BP says its interim chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, will be given the job on a permanent basis to replace Bernard Looney
A former leader of Scotland has acknowledged that she deleted WhatsApp messages sent during the COVID-19 pandemic
The Bank of England is expected to keep its main interest rate at near 16-year highs and indicate that lower borrowing costs aren't imminent because inflation is stuck too high for comfort
The two 16-year-old convicted killers of a transgender teenager in northwest England nearly a year ago have been given minimum sentences of 20 and 22 years
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure to apologize for a remark he made about transgender people, moments after he was informed that the mother of a murdered transgender teenager was in Parliament
Thousands of doctors in the early years of their careers in England are to go on strike later this month for another five-day stretch as their long-standing pay dispute with the British government remains in stasis
The British economy fell into recession at the end of 2023 as output shrank more than anticipated in the final three months of the year
London's iconic underground train map is getting a major update
Britain and its former partners in the European Union have struck a deal to cooperate more on tackling illegal migration
An unexploded World War II bomb will be transported through the southwestern English port city of Plymouth by a military convoy and disposed of at sea
The owners of a quirky 18th century British pub bulldozed after a fire last year have been ordered by a local council to rebuild it, keeping with its previous lopsided specifications
An off-duty police officer who abducted and murdered a 33-year-old woman in south London three years ago should never have been employed in the first place after three police forces failed to spot clear signs of his unsuitability, according to an official inquiry
A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a heavily Muslim town in northern England following a contest that has been mired in chaos and controversy and dominated by the war in Gaza
Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt will seek to regain political initiative by announcing tax cuts during his annual budget statement
US Justice Dept to ramp up staffing for immigration cases
Australia household spending rises for fourth month in January
Trump policy change prompts bid to dismiss foreign agent case
US dollar struggles near 4-month low amid growth concern; jobs data in spotlight
SpaceX Starship failure prompts diversions, Florida airports ground stops
The photographer capturing the ‘indescribable magic’ of Australia’s landscapes
King Charles reveals music soundtrack to his life to mark Commonwealth Day
