LONDON (dpa): Oil company BP has been given the green light to drill a new deep water well north-west of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, the British government said Thursday.
BP, which is still recovering from the reputational and financial (...)
LONDON/ROME (dpa) – Police in Britain have arrested a woman on suspicion of terrorism in connection with an alleged planned attack on a synagogue in the Italian city of Milan, Scotland Yard said Thursday.
Earlier, police in the northern Italian (...)
LONDON (dpa) – The Encyclopedia Britannica, the time-honored lexicon of which 7 million sets have been sold, has announced that it will stop publishing its weighty 32-volume print edition and go exclusively online after nearly a quarter of a (...)
London (dpa) – More than three-quarters of Britons believe that the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable and 55 per cent want British troops to be withdrawn immediately, a poll showed Tuesday.
Publication of the survey by polling institute ComRes (...)
London (dpa) – A teenager involved in one of the most vicious assaults that accompanied the London riots in the summer of 2011 was Friday sentenced to seven years in jail by a court in the British capital.
Beau Isagba, 18, attacked Malaysian (...)
London (dpa) – British Home Secretary Theresa May has arrived in Jordan for talks over the deportation of a radical Muslim cleric recently released from jail in Britain.
Abu Qatada, who has joint Palestinian-Jordanian nationality, was freed on (...)
London (dpa) – The defence editor of Britain's Sun newspaper was arrested Thursday on suspicion of paying public officials for information, publishing company News International confirmed.
Virginia Wheeler, 32, was questioned by police in (...)
LONDON (dpa): An African woman and her partner were Thursday convicted by a court in London of the “horrific” murder of her teenage brother, whom they had accused of practicing witchcraft.
Magalie Bamu, 29, and her partner, Eric Bikubi, 28, both (...)
London/New Orleans (dpa) – The trial over the worst oil spill in US history, which was set to start in the US on Monday, has been postponed for a week, BP announced in London late Sunday.
The case over the 2010 disaster, in which an explosion (...)
London/New Orleans (dpa) – There were indications Monday that a pre-trial settlement could be reached over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill after the start of proceedings was postponed by a week to March 5.
In a joint statement issued late (...)
CAIRO (dpa) – Britain's Sun newspaper was on Monday accused by police investigators of operating a “culture of illegal payments” to public officials in exchange for information.
The charge was made by Sue Akers, a senior Scotland Yard officer (...)
LONDON (dpa): Media mogul Rupert Murdoch launched a new tabloid, the Sun on Sunday, in an attempt to draw a line under the phone hacking and corruption scandals that have plagued his British operations.
The first Sunday edition of its daily (...)
London (dpa) – World leaders on Thursday sounded a note of optimism over the chances of Somalia leaving behind two decades of political turmoil fueled by civil war, poverty and terrorism.
At a high-profile conference in London, representatives (...)
London (dpa) – Britain and other European Union countries have considered the feasibility of airstrikes to tackle the twin threats of piracy and Islamist insurgency in Somalia, a British newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The Guardian newspaper (...)
London (dpa) – A year after the start of the uprising in Libya the militia groups who helped topple ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi are “largely out of control” and committing widespread human rights abuses, rights group Amnesty International said (...)
London (dpa) – Britain Monday backed urgent discussion of a call by Arab League foreign ministers on the United Nations Security Council to form a joint Arab-UN peacekeeping force to observe a ceasefire in Syria.
“The Arab League could not have (...)
London (dpa) – Four British Muslims have pleaded guilty to planning a major terrorist attack on key London landmarks in 2010 which was, however, foiled by the police and security agencies, a court in London heard Wednesday.
The four men, all born (...)
London (dpa) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received strong British support Monday for efforts to revive the stalled Middle East peace process as continued Israeli settlements were condemned as an “act of deliberate vandalism.”
Prime (...)
London (dpa) – British Prime Minister David Cameron has left for a visit to Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at strengthening “vital” relations with the oil-producing country, the government in London said early Friday.
He would hold meetings Friday (...)