For airports, background music no longer is an afterthought

Background music is no longer an afterthought at many airports, which are hiring local musicians and carefully curating playlists to help lighten travelers’ moods. London’s Heathrow Airport built a

Who is the alleged Chinese spy with close ties to Britain’s Prince Andrew?

An alleged Chinese spy who cultivated close ties with Prince Andrew said yesterday he has done “nothing wrong or unlawful” as Britain’s government faced questions

UK spy agency releases annual Christmas card puzzle to uncover future codebreakers

What does a spy agency give for Christmas? How about a riddle wrapped in an enigma inside a mystery. GCHQ, Britain’s electronic and cyber-intelligence agency, this week published

$344 for a coffee? Scottish farm is selling UK’s most expensive cup

It’s an enormous price to pay for a little cup of coffee, but the man behind the pitch promises it won’t leave a bitter taste behind as it

Booker Prize winner Flanagan adds nonfiction prize to his trophy shelf

Australian writer Richard Flanagan completed an unprecedented literary double yesterday , winning Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for

Farmers protest at Parliament House over a ‘ruinous’ tax hike

With banners, bullhorns, toy tractors and an angry message, British farmers descended on Parliament yesterday to protest a hike in inheritance tax that they say will deal

Son of Singapore’s founder says he has been granted political asylum in the UK

Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, said yesterday that he’s now a “political refugee” after the U.K. government granted

UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century,

Fire breaks out at Somerset House, home to priceless works by Van Gogh, Cezanne

Priceless paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh and others were unharmed Saturday after firefighters worked to douse a blaze that broke out in the roof of

UK leader Starmer condemns far-right attack on asylum-seeker hotel amid rising violence

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has strongly condemned an attack on a hotel accommodating asylum seekers that injured at least 10 police officers, including one seriously. In

PM, police hold crisis meeting over unrest as attack suspect due in court

Prime Minister Keir Starmer summoned British police chiefs for a crisis meeting yesterday over violent unrest that followed a stabbing attack that left three young girls dead.

New government announces legislation for ‘national renewal’ as Parliament opens with royal pomp

Britain's new Labour Party government promised to calm the country’s febrile politics and ease its cost-of-living crisis as it set out its plans for “national renewal” at

Thousands of doctors go on strike a week before general election

Thousands of doctors in England are staging their 11th walkout yesterday in a long-running dispute with the government over pay and working conditions, disrupting hospital services

UK and US elections: two very different systems united by a common political language

Voters in the United Kingdom on May 22 learned the date they would be joining the many, many people casting ballots around the world in 2024.

UK lawmakers back landmark bill to phase out smoking for good

The British government’s plan for a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from ever smoking cleared its first hurdle in Parliament yesterday despite

UK parliament to vote on smoking ban for those born after 2009: report

Plans to stop young people born since 2009 ever smoking being debated at the U.K.’s Parliament. According to BBC News, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s bill aims to

A World War II bomb prompted an evacuation in England before being taken to sea to be blown up

An unexploded World War II bomb was safely transported Friday through the eerily empty streets of the southwestern English port city of Plymouth before being

PM Sunak says King Charles III’s cancer was caught early

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said yesterday that he was “shocked and sad” to learn that King Charles III has cancer, but is relieved that the

Irish and UK leaders are in Belfast to celebrate the end of Northern Ireland’s political deadlock

The leaders of the U.K. and Ireland went to Belfast yesterday to meet Northern Ireland’s newly revived government and bask in a good-news moment after two

Charles III welcomes president Yoon with state banquet, mingles with K-pop band Blackpink

King Charles III hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife at a glittering banquet at Buckingham Palace yesterday , as Britain rolled

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