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