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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.
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.
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.
A major travel company will tomorrow begin screening a unique TV advertising campaign urging the Government to introduce a new Bank Holiday.
Greece had considered attacking Turkey through their mutual border following Ankara's move to send troops to Cyprus in July 1974, in the wake of an Athens-engineered coup on the eastern Mediterranean island, according to a U.S.
LONDON (Dec. 22) - Tony Blair, who often kept his religious views private while serving as Britain's prime minister, has converted to Catholicism , officials said Saturday.
It might be partly that they enjoy team activities and it's a kind of extended goal celebration, but it is primarily because that is what they see in porn. And porn is screwing up sex.
It is all rather different from the way things work in the dull, real world. Down here, a group of people supplying attractive girls to a party of moneyed men would be seen as rather more than events organisers.
DOCTORS have always used a tribal vocabulary to communicate between themselves, but now their secret lingo is been enriched by the electronic media and urban slang. Paul Keeley, a consultant in the department of palliative medicine at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland wrote to …
A few weeks ago, Jonathan Freedland published a long piece in The New York Review of Books that caught Gordon Brown mania.
A rapist who avoided a jail term after raping a deaf mother-of-three in her bed while she slept has been jailed for seven years following an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Commons Leader Harriet Harman has told the BBC she wants the law to be changed to make it illegal to pay for sex. She said ministers were to look at how Sweden brought in such a law, and said a "big debate" was needed in the UK.
MADRID -- The twin suicide bombings in Algeria's capital that took at least 37 lives last week have given the enigmatic militant group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb a sharp burst of publicity.
What is more shocking: the fact that a rescue would cost this much or that it is even being attempted? At the end of the day, it is right that the savings of individuals be protected and if the UK government must intervene, so be it.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Britain will weather the economic storm just fine. I am glad. Maybe they can send some strong pound sterling over here in trade for some of our faltering US Dollars.
The cost of sourcing immigrants from non-English speaking countries is high...but the sad fact is that with declining birthrates, the UK does not have too many options, unless it wishes for a future where retirees are unable to be provided for.
In January of 2007, I wrote an article title Creationism Evolves European Offshoot, noting the growing prevalence of creationist activism in the UK.
Yesterday, the day on which the former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton effectively killed the Government's 42-day detention plan, was also the 43rd day that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito spent in custody in Italy in connection with the Meredith Kercher case.
Londoners might well, I imagine, not vote for free immigration from the Ukraine. The disregard for this position from the parliament's consensus is almost tangible.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government suffered new embarrassment over missing data on Monday when it revealed one of its contractors had lost the details of 3 million learner drivers.
I'm delighted that Peter Hain has announced a new package to restore 90% of what was lost by 140,000 people whose pensions failed when their employers went out of business a few years ago.
In Britain, schools wriggle and writhe to get out of taking in problematic poor kids, narrowing their catchment areas and setting up bogus tests of academic skill or "faith". This means these kids pile up in the worst schools, where they become unteachable.
From the January 2008 Trumpet Print Edition » The withdrawal of Britain from the European Union will be a watershed event in the annals of Western civilization. Here's why. By Brad Macdonald
Facebook friends may offer to pee on you, but isn't that just pathetic? When, with friendships that go back a long way, you can have the real thing.
The Human Rights Act is meant to have brought a terrifying permissiveness, allowing thieving gypsies to rob villagers with impunity and prisoners to be treated like guests at five-star hotels.
The government could be in serious trouble throughout much of the new year if Brown and Smith have not thought this one through properly. It is rarely a great idea to pick a fight with the police. Nor is it very clever to pick any kind of fight you can't win.
Britain could be sending its first mission to the Moon within five years after it won the backing of Nasa. UK mission within five yearsThere are plans to send an unmanned probe into lunar orbit by 2012.
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