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It's never too early to bet in the United Kingdom, not even on the United States presidential election -- of 2016. The good folks at the Ladbrokes betting service are listing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as the favorite in the next presidential election; her odds of winning the presidency in four years: 6-1.

The British queen's husband, Prince Philip, has been taken to a Scottish hospital as “a precautionary measure,” Buckingham palace said Wednesday. The palace says the 91-year-old Duke of Edinburgh was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

New York’s top banking regulator had charged the British bank with laundering $250 billion in tainted money for Iranian clients.

Britain is determined to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden and has made that clear to Ecuador, which is sheltering the founder of WikiLeaks inside its London embassy while it considers his asylum request, British authorities said on Tuesday.

The Olympics brought less tourist money to recession-hit Britain than officials expected, a trade group said Monday, with a majority of tourist businesses reporting losses from last year.

More than 200 firefighters have tackled a blaze described by London Fire Brigade as the biggest seen in the capital for several years. The brigade was called at about 13:15 BST when flames took hold at a recycling centre in Dagenham, east London.

Ed McKeever wins the men's 200m kayak sprint, adding a 26th gold to Great Britain's medal tally at the London Olympics.

Libor benchmark interest rates are no longer "fit for purpose" and must be changed or replaced, Britain's regulator said on Friday as he set out proposals to restore their credibility.

Standard Chartered won some help from Britain's central bank governor on Wednesday in its fightback against the New York banking regulator's allegations that it had hidden $250 billion of transactions with Iran.

New York's top bank regulator threatened to strip Standard Chartered Plc of its state banking license, saying the British bank was a "rogue institution" that hid $250 billion in transactions tied to Iran, in violation of U.S. law.