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The British prime minister said a planned strike by British Airways cabin crew is "deplorable" and should be called off.

British dog owners may be forced to microchip their pets and take out insurance, part of a proposed crackdown on the country's dangerous canines.

Postmen are delighted, but civil libertarians grumble that Britain's sprawling surveillance state now wants to track the nation's estimated 8 million dogs. Others complain that the insurance plan would impose a financial penalty on innocent pet owners – while criminals who own violent animals will simply shirk the law.

Voters in Iceland went to the polls Saturday for a national referendum on whether to repay billions of dollars the country owes to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Great Britain is visiting his nation’s troops in Afghanistan and promising them 200 new patrol vehicles that can resist roadside bombs more effectively.

British insurer Prudential PLC said Monday it will buy the Asian unit of bailed out American International Group Inc. in a deal worth $35.5 billion that will allow AIG to pay back some of the money it owes U.S. taxpayers....

On Sunday the British public was introduced to what one political journalist has painted as the dark face of the country's prime minister: An angry and abusive man whose rages were so intense the country's top bureaucrat had to intervene to comfort his distressed staff....

The flight ban was announced in response to the attempted terrorist attack allegedly carried out by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.

A British man who said he strangled his wife during a nightmare about fighting off an intruder has been found innocent in her death....

Three quarters of universities in England have had to bail out students because of delays to loans, suggests a BBC survey.