UK disarray: Prime Minister May to face no-confidence vote from her party
A no-confidence vote in British Prime Minister Theresa May Wednesday threw U.K. politics deeper into crisis and Brexit further into doubt.
Local pilot gets 10 months in British jail for alcohol
A Columbus pilot has been sentenced to jail time overseas for being under the influence of alcohol while preparing to fly from Scotland to New Jersey.
Amid protests, UK lawmakers debate downgrading Trump visit
Thousands of protesters against U.S. President Donald Trump rallied outside Britain’s Parliament on Monday, while lawmakers inside urged the government to rescind its offer to the president of a state visit stamped with pomp, pageantry and royal approval.
Britain’s economy is stable — and people are surprised
Fear of an economic meltdown was the biggest weapon in the campaign to stop Britain from leaving the European Union.
Other Europeans unhappy with EU could seek to follow UK out
Disenchantment with the European Union is not limited to British voters who opted to leave the bloc.
European Union’s most widely used language, English, endangered by Brexit
Of all the myriad challenges facing the European Union with the pending departure of Britain, one unlikely issue that needs to be resolved is the fact that English would no longer be an official language.
Generation EU: British vote often pitted old against young
The day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, 69-year-old Mary Crossley of London said she got a phone call from her 31-year-old daughter. She seemed pretty annoyed.
Intolerant acts surge as British referendum result sinks in
An Eastern European family in Rugby finds dog excrement shoved through its mailbox. A Londoner nearly gets into a fight over drunken slurs shouted on a crowded subway car. A Polish teenager in Gloucestershire is taunted with threats of deportation at her high school.
Britain’s leaving the EU. What should I do with my money?
As many people around the world are trying to wrap their minds around what just happened in Britain, you may also be wondering “What does the Brexit mean for my money?”
Britain votes to leave EU: Cameron to resign
Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling the government today, sending global markets plunging and shattering the stability of a project in continental unity designed half a century ago to prevent World War III.
British orchid display provides hint of spring
The weather outside is frightful — it has been for weeks, with parts of the country experiencing the worst floods in decades — but it’s positively warm inside the Princess of Wales Conservatory. It’s humid too, tropical in fact.
UK police: 3 women held captive for 30 years
Three women have been freed after spending 30 years held captive in a south London home, including one woman believed to have spent her entire life in domestic slavery, police said Thursday.
Police: Spy in bag probably died by accident
LONDON — A spy whose naked, decomposing body was found inside a padlocked gym bag at his apartment likely died in an accident with no
Evidence suggests early Britons ate roasted toads
LONDON — Britons sometimes make fun of the French for feasting on frog. But now a new discovery suggests their prehistoric ancestors may have had
Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier
LONDON — Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London
UK soldier killed in broad daylight
LONDON — Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had been investigated previously by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched
Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, dead at 87
Love her or loathe her, one thing’s beyond dispute: Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain. Thatcher’s former spokesman, Tim Bell, said that the former prime minister had died Monday morning of a stroke. She was 87.