Britain

The decision to lift final lockdown measures in England on June 21 will be made after data on infection, hospitalisation, vaccination and new variants are assessed, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, capping a week of political drama with a wedding kept so under wraps that his ...

British royal Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, said on Saturday she had received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and paid tribute to everyone involved in the rollout of the inoculation ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson “unwisely” allowed a refurbishment of his residence to proceed without more rigorous consideration of how it would be funded but did not break the ministerial ...

Former Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs will face trial next year accused of deliberately headbutting his ex-girlfriend and controlling her throughout their relationship. In a 15-minute hearing at Manchester Crown ...

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a phone conversation late Thursday with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on China-UK relations. Noting that China-UK relations have a deep ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday brushed aside allegations from his former chief aide that his failings had caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths from COVID-19, saying “some ...

A cigar butt discarded by Sir Winston Churchill and picked up by a policeman has sold for more than £4,200. The item – cast aside by the wartime leader in the 1940s – ...

Liverpool football club said campaigners had been let down again after the acquittal on Wednesday of two ex-policemen and a lawyer charged with perverting the course of justice following the 1989 ...

France on Wednesday declared a mandatory quarantine period for people coming from Britain due to the increasing prevalence there of a highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in India. France ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s inept handling of the COVID pandemic led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and officials even feared he would ask to be injected ...

Dominic Cummings, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former top adviser, accused government on Wednesday of failing the British public in its early response to the coronavirus pandemic, apologising to the ...

By Jason Szep and Tom Bergin The Scottish government is facing a new legal challenge over its February rejection of a motion to investigate former US President Donald Trump’s ...

Britain’s GCHQ eavesdropping agency breached fundamental human rights by intercepting and harvesting vast amounts of communications, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday. Revelations by former National ...

Forget Brexit, says the Confederation of British Industry, a group which represents 190,000 companies in the UK. The organisation says “Seize the Moment,” and releases a report intended to establish a ...

Nearly five months after Britain’s official departure from the European Union (EU) following the end of the Brexit transition period, many EU citizens in Britain are considering leaving the ...

British shoppers splashed out on new clothes in April after shops reopened following months of lockdown closures, adding to signs of a robust economic recovery, official data showed on Friday. ...

By Alistair Smout and Michael Holden Britain’s Prince William accused the BBC of failing his mother Princess Diana and poisoning her relationship with Prince Charles after an inquiry found ...

A BBC journalist used deceit to win a sensational 1995 interview with Princess Diana in which she disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage to Prince Charles and the broadcaster covered ...

Model Naomi Campbell announced on social media on Tuesday that she has welcomed her first child and shared a photo of her cradling her daughter’s feet. “A beautiful little ...

Sports fans will be welcomed back to venues across England on Monday as coronavirus restrictions are eased. Football, greyhound racing, horse racing, rugby league and rugby union will be among ...

Ireland is increasingly concerned that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to completely rewrite the Northern Ireland section of the Brexit deal, RTE reported on Monday after London said the ...

Friends will hug, pints will be pulled and swathes of the British economy will reopen on Monday giving 65 million people a measure of freedom after the gloom of a four-month ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday there was no place for anti-Semitism in society and that British Jews should not have to endure “shameful racism”. Johnson was responding in ...