LONDON: Britain will leave the European Union on Oct. 31 despite an unsigned letter that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced by his opponents to send to...
LONDON: The boss of one of Britain’s leading brewery groups, Marston’s, has urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to help save pubs that are at the heart of many...
LONDON: A mystery drone operator's success in shutting down Britain's second busiest airport for more than 36 hours has exposed the vulnerability of others...
LONDON: Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has raised its offer for Britain’s Sky in an agreed deal valuing the pay-TV group at $32.5 billion, seeing off rival...
LONDON/NEW YORK: U.S. media group Comcast submitted a 22 billion pound ($30.7 billion) bid for Sky Wednesday, prompting the European pay TV group to drop its...
LONDON: Rupert Murdoch has stepped up the pressure on Britain to approve his $14.5 billion bid for Sky by offering to sell or legally separate Sky News,...
LONDON/EDINBURGH: The collapse of British services group Carillion started to hurt thousands of small contractors Tuesday, with some laying off workers after...
LONDON: Airlines, holiday companies and house builders joined British banks in bearing the brunt of Brexit-induced market turmoil Monday, which analysts said...
LONDON: Legendary British rock star David Bowie, who framed hits such as “Ziggy Stardust” with daringly androgynous displays of sexuality and costume, has...
WESTON-SUPER-MARE, U.K.: Britain’s newest theme park, “Dismaland,” opened Friday with a decrepit castle, a merry-go-round horse set to be cooked and model...
LONDON: When Chris Morton was setting up a fashion e-commerce company five years ago, he spent a lot of time listening to online music service Spotify. He...
LONDON: American rapper Wiz Khalifa has scored the fastest selling single of the year, as his tribute to actor Paul Walker, "See You Again", climbed 21 places...
LONDON: Jeremy Clarkson, the outspoken British presenter of the "Top Gear" motoring show, has been suspended by the BBC after he was involved in a "fracas"...
LONDON: Sam Smith's "In The Lonely Hour" returned to the top of the British album chart on Sunday, a week after the 22-year-old won four Grammy awards...
LONDON: British musician Elton John on Sunday married his long-term partner David Furnish, converting their civil partnership after laws allowing gay marriage...
LONDON: Britain plans to introduce a tax to target multinationals such as Google Inc. and Amazon Inc. accused of using complex accounting schemes to cut their...
PILTON, England: Kaiser Chiefs kicked off three days of music at the Glastonbury Festival on Friday, with lead singer Ricky Wilson singing "I predict a riot"...
ZURICH/LONDON: Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline traded over $20 billion worth of assets Tuesday, aiming to bolster their best businesses and exit weaker ones as...
BARCELONA: Nokia, soon to be acquired by Microsoft Corp., is turning to software created by archrival Google for a new line of phones it hopes will make it a...
LONDON: The rise of social media in China will lead to liberalisation, and as more and more people go online China's government will be powerless to halt the...
JOHANNESBURG/LONDON: British security group G4S denied its workers had electrocuted and drugged prisoners at South Africa’s Mangaung prison, the...
LONDON: East London’s technology hub is established well beyond startup status: Thousands of new web firms now work in the offices around Old Street and...
GRIMETHORPE, England: In an old-fashioned social club near what was once one of Britain’s richest coal seams, former miners played cards and toasted the...
LONDON: British police investigating alleged sexual abuse by BBC presenter Jimmy Savile launched a criminal inquiry Friday, saying more than 200 potential...
LONDON: Britain's Pearson has bought U.S. educational services company EmbanetCompass for $650 million in cash to bolster its position in the fast-growing...