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Queen Elizabeth II to miss Commonwealth meeting
The 87-year-old Queen Elizabeth II will skip the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Sri Lanka this fall — the first time she's missed the ...
Senior BSkyB executive killed in boating accident
A senior executive with British broadcaster BSkyB has died in a speedboat accident that also killed his 8-year-old daughter and left four other family ...
UK, lawyers for Kenya torture victims in talks
Lawyers for Kenyans tortured during a rebellion against colonial rule in the 1950s said Monday that they are negotiating with the British government ...
Afghan interpreters launch UK legal bid
Three Afghan interpreters who worked with British troops launched a legal bid on Friday challenging the U.K. government's decision not to give them ...
German WWII bomber to be salvaged off UK coast
A famous German World War II bomber nicknamed "the flying pencil" has spent decades submerged in the English Channel after being shot down in the ...
Police identify man whose body found in chimney
An English coroner is being asked to decide why a man was in the chimney of a law firm where he was found dead. Police in Derbyshire in central ...
UK man jailed for selling fake bomb detectors
A British judge on Thursday sentenced a businessman who sold fake bomb detectors to 10 years in jail, saying the millionaire had shown a cavalier ...
Van at UK's Gatwick Airport checked by bomb squad
A suspicious van parked at London's Gatwick Airport caused minor disruptions Wednesday, but police said bomb disposal experts found no threat after ...
Adventurer dies trying to cross Greenland ice cap
A 37-year-old British adventurer has died and two others with him suffered frostbite injuries as they tried to cross Greenland's ice cap on a charity ...
Cameron to raise case of Britons detained in Dubai
Prime Minister David Cameron says he will press the president of the United Arab Emirates to investigate the alleged abuse of three Britons jailed in ...
Charter jet makes emergency landing in Bermuda
A charter passenger jet made an emergency landing Tuesday in Bermuda after the captain reported a possible fire in the cabin, officials in the British ...
Search suspended for British man in Pacific Ocean
Rescue crews have stopped searching for a British man who fell overboard from a troubled sailboat in the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Coast Guard says the ...
UK to cut off aid to South Africa in 2015
The British government said Tuesday it will cut off direct aid to South Africa in 2015 in light of the nation's emergence as a regional economic power ...
Archaeologists plan more digs at Richard III site
Archaeologists who unearthed the skeleton of England's King Richard III under a municipal parking lot say they want to dig up a 600-year-old stone ...
UK: Guardian newspaper's Twitter feeds hacked
The Guardian newspaper said Monday that its Twitter accounts have been hacked, and it cited a claim of responsibility from the group calling itself ...
Car used by Winston Churchill being sold on eBay
A rare car once used by Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill is being sold on the auction site eBay. Experts believe the vintage Daimler DB 18 ...
1 saved, 1 overboard from remote Pacific sailboat
The U.S. Coast Guard in Hawaii rescued a British citizen and — with help from the U.S. Navy — was searching Sunday for another British man who fell ...
Protesters march against first British drone base
Anti-war protesters demonstrated Saturday outside a Royal Air Force base used to control drone flights over Afghanistan. Until this week, British ...
Finest Hour: Churchill to be on UK bank note
Here's a choice not likely to be too controversial: officials say wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill's portrait will be featured on a new ...
UK: Thatcher funeral cost taxpayers $5.6M
The British government says former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's funeral cost taxpayers 3.6 million pounds ($5.6 million), mostly for security.
UK school uses domes to silence airport noise
A school close to London's busy Heathrow Airport has found a novel way to protect its young students from the relentless roar of planes taking off and ...
Danny Cipriani out of hospital after struck by bus
Former England flyhalf Danny Cipriani was discharged from hospital on Thursday after being hit by a double-decker bus while on a night out with ...
UK deputy leader: Surveillance bill won't happen
A mass Internet monitoring program touted by Britain's government as a terror-fighting tool is unworkable, the country's deputy leader said Thursday, ...
3 British Muslim men jailed for terror offenses
Three British Muslims, including a convert who was featured in a documentary about radical Islam and a former London police support officer, were ...