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China was rebuked for denying religious freedom to Tibetans and other human rights violations in a report published Tuesday by Britain's Foreign Office.
Lisa Marie Presley has sued a British newspaper for alleging that she was piling on the pounds because of her unhealthy appetite, her lawyer said Monday.
The International Whaling Commission criticized environmental activists protesting Japan's whaling fleet, accusing them Saturday of threatening safety at sea.
Prince Philip will not be called to testify at the inquest into the deaths of Prince Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, a coroner said Friday.
Scotland Yard started an investigation Wednesday into a video that allegedly shows troubled British singer Amy Winehouse smoking crack.
Joan Ingpen, an influential classical music manager who played a major role in the career of Luciano Pavarotti, has died at age 91.
Northern Rock PLC will hold accelerated takeover discussions with a consortium led by Virgin Group, the battered mortgage lender said Monday.
Friends and family of a former KGB officer killed by radioactive poisoning marked the first anniversary of his death Friday, alleging Russia's complicity in his poisoning and accusing it of failing to investigate the crime.
Lawyers for the widow of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko said they filed papers with the European Court of Human Rights Thursday, alleging Russia's complicity in his poisoning.
Most British citizens could be obese by 2050, a new government report warns, and the nation's health secretary called Wednesday for a fundamental shift in the way the nation tackles obesity.
The great-great-grandson of Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck died in his near-empty, $10 million London apartment in July after recklessly injecting himself with cocaine, a coroner concluded Wednesday.
Former Pakistani Premier Benazir Bhutto said Thursday she expects to reach an agreement on a democratic transition once President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government declares an amnesty dropping corruption cases against her and other politicians.
The Bank of England provided emergency funding to mortgage lender Northern Rock PLC on Friday after the bank, citing the global credit squeeze triggered by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, said it was unable to line up short-term loans from other financial institutions. Even after the central bank issued a statement saying Northern Rock was solvent, slow moving lines of customers snaked through its doors to make withdrawals.
A son of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin has been jailed for five years after being involved in a gang attack that left a man dead, British prosecutors said Friday.
The man suspected of driving a gas-laden Jeep Cherokee into a terminal at Glasgow Airport in June has died without being questioned or charged by police.
For students at the University of Oxford, Facebook is a great way to keep posted on gossip and parties. For campus officials, it's a new way to find — and fine — troublemakers.
In the entire row of stores, the only one that was targeted — the one that still smells of smoke — is owned by a man of Pakistani descent.
Londoners were on edge Friday after two explosives-packed cars were found in the city's theater district just days before the second anniversary of a bombing onslaught that killed 52 commuters, and the thwarted plot revived painful memories.
The British government is drafting new anti-terrorism legislation that would allow police to stop and question individuals without suspecting a crime has taken place, the Home Office said Saturday.
Britain's army reversed course Wednesday and announced that Prince Harry will not be sent to Iraq with his regiment due to "specific threats" from insurgents that expose the third in line to the throne to an unacceptable degree of risk.
Lined up against a dank stone wall, the captured British naval team steeled themselves for the end as masked guards cocked their weapons.
A Royal Navy crew broke into applause after landing on British soil Thursday, basking in relief shared by a nation after their release from 13 days of captivity in Iran.
Faye Turney's first purported letter from captivity in Iran told "mum and dad" to look after her husband and young daughter.
The U.N. Security Council expressed "grave concern" Thursday over Iran's seizure of 15 British sailors and marines and called for an early resolution of the escalating dispute, but Iran's chief international negotiator suggested the captives might be put on trial.
Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday called the Iranian seizure of 15 British sailors and marines "unjustified and wrong," saying in his first remarks on the escalating confrontation that London saw it as a "very serious situation."
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