Britain

Britain marked the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by issuing more sanctions against Russia, including export bans on every item it has used on the battlefield and import ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides and British High Commissioner to Cyprus Irfan Siddiq on Thursday delivered their final remarks on the fifth annual Strategic Leadership Programme in Cyprus, which lasted five ...

Britain will scrap the requirement for around 12,000 asylum seekers to undergo face-to-face interviews and instead ask them to fill out a questionnaire, the government said on Thursday, in an attempt ...

Britons may face shortages of salad staples, including tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers, for up to another month, the government said on Thursday. On Wednesday, Britain’s biggest supermarket group Tesco ...

Britain’s opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer set out plans for five “national missions” on Thursday, including making the economy the fastest growing among the G7, in a challenge to ...

British football commentator John Motson has died aged 77, his family announced in a statement on Thursday. Popularly known as “Motty”, Motson started working on the BBC’s flagship highlights show ...

Northern Irish police suspect that the New IRA Irish nationalist militant group may have been responsible for the attempted murder of a senior detective who was shot in front of ...

A Northern Irish police officer is in a “critical but stable” condition in hospital after being shot while coaching youth sports in the town of Omagh on Wednesday evening, the ...

Britain’s big supermarkets say they have never been more competitive on price, yet their customers are still flocking to German-owned discount stores Aldi and Lidl. And the discounters’ supermarket ...

A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State (IS) lost her latest appeal against the UK government’s decision to take away her citizenship ...

Nurses in England will pause planned strike action to enter “intensive talks” with the British government on pay and conditions, both sides said on Tuesday, in the first sign of ...

England’s rise from laughing stock to being within a penalty kick of ending the country’s interminable wait for a major trophy will play out on the stage of ...

Luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover said on Tuesday it is opening three new engineering hubs in Europe to develop autonomous vehicle technologies as part of its partnership with Silicon Valley ...

Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, will raise hourly pay for about 220,000 store workers by 7 per cent from April, another increase that will likely catch the attention of the Bank of ...

European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic said on Monday he had a productive call with British foreign minister James Cleverly and Northern Ireland minister Chris Heaton-Harris over the disputed Northern Ireland ...

Twelve newly commissioned pieces of music will play at the coronation of Britain’s King Charles at Westminster Abbey this May, including Greek Orthodox music, Buckingham Palace said, with the 18...

Average asking prices for British residential property rose by just 14 pounds ($17) in February from January, the smallest rise on record for a month which normally sees a big seasonal increase, ...

Tottenham Hotspur have called on social media companies to take action after forward Son Heung-min was subjected to “utterly reprehensible” online racist abuse during Sunday’s 2-0 Premier League win ...

British consumers unexpectedly increased their shopping in January, but the big picture remains one of weak demand from inflation-hit households relying more on discounts at retailers to make ends meet. ...

Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco Plc (TSCO.L) is planning to review its presence in the UK banking sector in a move that could lead to a sale of its ...

Police in the north of England said on Sunday they had found a body near where a woman went missing last month. Nicola Bulley, 45, was last seen walking her dog ...

A former security guard at the British embassy in Berlin who passed highly sensitive information to Russia and was paid for his “treachery” was jailed for more than 13 years in ...

NatWest (NWG.L) warned on Friday that rising interest rates may not deliver the long-lasting earnings bonanza investors hope for, even though profit jumped by 33 per cent last year. Shares ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was travelling to Northern Ireland on Thursday evening to sound out whether its political parties back his plans to improve the post-Brexit trading arrangements for ...