A British hostage has been released following a UAE military intelligence operation against al-Qaida kidnappers in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, the government source said.
The reopening of Britain's embassy in Tehran on Sunday, only a month after the nuclear deal, revealed the eagerness of European countries to resume ties with Iran, analysts said.
A British Airways flight from Las Vegas to London Heathrow made an emergency landing in Canada's Montreal out of reports of a "suspect device" on board, the Sky news reported on Wednesday.
Barclays, which has frozen the bank account of Russia Today (RT)'s London office, refused to give an open explanation over its decision, triggering suspicions that the UK authorities are flaunting "freedom of press" through financial means.
Rwanda's intelligence chief Karenzi Karake, who was detained earlier in UK following an international arrest warrant issued by Spain, has been released on bail of 1.6 million U.S. dollars on condition that he remains on the UK soil until the next hearing of his trial scheduled on Oct. 29, a judicial source said Thursday in Kigali.
Former Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond on Friday won the seat of Gordon in the British general election in northeast Scotland's Aberdeenshire.
A newly married couple from Britain were caught up in the avalanche in Mount Qomolangma after a major earthquake hit Nepal on Saturday, local media reported.
British government Tuesday revised up its economic growth estimate for both the fourth quarter of 2014 and the whole year, while experts here believe that the strong consumer spending of British household would continue to boost the country's growth this year.
Eleven foreign doctors and medical students crossed into Syria via Turkey last week to help treat Islamic State (IS) militants, private Dogan News Agency reported on Sunday.
Turkey said on Sunday that three British teens allegedly trying to join the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Syria were detained in a Turkish airport and sent back to Britain.
Former British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind on Tuesday resigned from his post as chairman of the Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee amid an alleged "cash-for-access" scandal.
The British government on Friday announced a series of new measures to help its businesses face the "cyber security challenge" and support its cyber security firms to tap into the U.S. market.
British forces have definitively left Camp Bastion in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, handing the base over to the Afghan National Army (ANA), the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced Monday.
Four men were arrested on Tuesday in a series of police raids across London as part of an investigation into "Islamist-related terrorism", British media said.
Britain and Ireland on Monday inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on visa cooperation to allow Chinese and Indian visitors to travel to the two island nations on a single visa.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday reiterated his resolve to hunt down the killers of British aid worker Alan Henning and bring them to justice.
The British government will send a consignment of heavy machine guns and ammunition worth 1.6 million pounds (2.6 million U.S. dollars) to Iraq's government to help fight the Islamic State (ISIS), said the British Ministry of Defence Tuesday.
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