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Passengers stepping out of London Bridge tube station cannot help but crane their necks to gaze at the jagged tower under construction: The Shard is the tallest building in the European Union and looks like a slice of glass balanced on the edge of the financial district.
Mild weather and pre-Christmas discounting helped Britain's retailers survive the holiday season but customers are not likely to keep shopping at the same pace, figures released Tuesday show.
A lawmaker has promised the family of a slain Indian student that Britain will bring his killer to justice.
Oscar-nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter, famed for playing quirky characters as well as British royalty, joins a former prisoner, a reality TV guru and several Olympics organizers on the list of people being awarded honors by Queen Elizabeth II this New Year.
There's a beautifully groomed Mary in a blue party dress, a fashionable Joseph gazing adoringly at the baby, and wise men carrying a Faberge egg, a crystal bottle of perfume and a decorated skull.
Since stepping down as Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair has built up a formidable work portfolio: He's an international peacemaker, a consultant for investment bank JP Morgan, a pricey public speaker and a philanthropist.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Friday it has closed a valve from which oil was spilling into the North Sea.
For more than 140 years, the House of Reeves was a landmark in Croydon, a family-run business that supplied generations of families as the area changed from a small town to a London suburb.
Thousands of extra police officers flooded into London Wednesday in a bid to end Britain's worst rioting in a generation. An eerie calm prevailed in the capital, but unrest spread across England on a fourth night of violence driven by diverse and brazen crowds of young people.
He broke the story that destroyed a 168-year-old newspaper, humiliated one of the world's most powerful media moguls and cast a spotlight on a phone hacking scandal that has embroiled politicians, police and journalists.
He's looked defensive. He's looked outraged. He's looked scared. But recently, Prime Minister David Cameron has rarely looked like he's in charge.
Companies rushed to pull ads from British tabloid News of the World on Wednesday amid public outcry over alleged phone hacking, but media mogul Rupert Murdoch insisted his top executive in Britain, Rebekah Brooks, would not resign.
British actor Colin Firth won an Oscar for portraying King George VI in "The King's Speech," and now the king's daughter Queen Elizabeth II will give him another prize.
Britain's former deputy prime minister won the right Monday to a legal review of the way London's Metropolitan Police handled the wide-ranging phone hacking campaign mounted by a British tabloid newspaper.
Police have warned some Rwandan exiles living in Britain that their lives are in danger, issuing letters of concern after the men criticized the government of the east African nation.
Opposition lawmakers called on British Justice Secretary Ken Clarke to resign Wednesday after he suggested that some types of rapes are more serious than others.
Farmers and landowners are being asked to plant rows of wildflowers along the edges of England's fields to create a network of "bee roads" to boost declining numbers.
Birders are waxing poetic over a female osprey named Lady — she's lived three times longer than average and has faithfully returned to the same Scottish loch for over two decades.
Don't give the queen a friendly hug and don't tweet from the church.
Nawaz Sharif, leader of Pakistan's largest opposition party, is being treated at a London hospital for heart problems, a spokesman for his political party said Wednesday .
Erich Segal, the Ivy League professor who attained mainstream fame and made millions sob as writer of the novel and movie "Love Story," has died of a heart attack, his daughter said Tuesday. He was 72.
The British government apologized Thursday to people who were harmed in the womb when their mothers took the anti-nausea drug Thalidomide.
A senior British army commander said Thursday his troops were unwilling to help the Iraqi army in air strikes against militias in the city of Basra because they feared killing civilians.
A former British military chief says the United States decided that it had won the war in Iraq too soon.
Canadian doctors have been advised not to use a batch of 170,000 doses of swine flu vaccine while authorities investigate reports of allergic reactions among recipients, drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday.
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