Sir Ian McKellen — Gandalf to "Lord of the Rings" fans — rose further in status Saturday as he joined the elite circle of Britain's Companions of Honor.
The Scottish government said Monday it would pay to insert advertisements discouraging drinking and driving into video games.
Just call her Queen e-Lizabeth.
Britain's 81-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, considered an icon of traditionalism, launched her own special Royal Channel on YouTube Sunday.
A South Asian man was killed in what Manchester area police on Saturday were calling a racist attack.
As prime minister, Tony Blair demanded the cancellation of a fraud investigation against aerospace company BAE Systems PLC in part because he feared it would jeopardize an arms deal with Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported Saturday.
They're penguins, but are they art?
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has left the Church of England and converted to Catholicism, the faith of his wife and children.
Workers at some of Britain's busiest airports have voted to stage three strikes in the new year in a dispute over pensions, union officials said Friday.
Britain's police watchdog ruled Friday that no officers will be disciplined for their roles in the fatal shooting of an innocent Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber.
Police said Friday they were suspending the use of a highly sensitive form of DNA testing criticized by a judge who acquitted the only person charged with murder in Northern Ireland's deadliest terrorist attack.
Iran won an important court ruling Friday in its bid to force an international art dealer in London to return 18 ancient artifacts that allegedly were stolen from the country's tombs.
Russia will permit paintings from its museums to go to London for a major exhibition after British legislation protecting art from seizure in lawsuits comes into force, the government culture agency said Friday.
Arabella Spencer-Churchill, the unconventional granddaughter of Britain's wartime prime minister and a founder of the Glastonbury rock festival, has died at age 58, her husband said.
Princess Diana's driver was drunk the night she and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed died in a car crash in Paris, a bartender told the court investigating the princess' death.
A judge on Thursday acquitted the only man charged with murder in Northern Ireland's deadliest terror attack, the 1998 car bombing that killed 29 people in the town of Omagh.
Three British residents released from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay were reunited with their families Thursday for the first time in more than four years.
Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's oldest-ever monarch Thursday, reaching a new milestone in a job she has held for more than a half century — one that comes with luxurious accommodation, long hours and little chance of retirement.
Two men pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempting to blackmail a member of Britain's royal family over alleged sex and drug claims.
Russia said Thursday that Britain had failed to provide sufficient protection from private legal claims for a major exhibition of paintings owned by Russian museums, and that it wouldn't loan the works until it received further guarantees.
A white grand piano used by Frank Sinatra sold for more than four times its estimated value Tuesday as London's famous Savoy Hotel began selling its furniture before a massive restoration, auctioneers said.
Britain's Liberal Democrats elected the youthful Nick Clegg as their third leader in two years Tuesday, and he vowed to reverse a slump in fortunes and woo voters disenchanted with modern politics.
Britain may start requiring residents to pay deposits when their non-European Union family members visit — refundable only when the relatives go home, — according to a government proposal aimed at tightening borders and eliminating illegal immigration.
South Africa's Naspers Ltd. will acquire online auctioneer Tradus PLC in a deal valued at $1.91 billion, Tradus said Tuesday.
A second witness on Wednesday told the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed about "fast and furious" driving by Henri Paul, who later drove the couple into a fatal Paris car crash.