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Icelandic authorities should have made sure UK Icesave depositors were insured by the UK, a report says.

The election will likely be the most closely fought ballot in almost two decades, with opposition Conservatives taking aim at Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

The British decision was seen as a rebuke of Israel for the suspected use of a dozen fake British passports in the assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai this year.

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.

Microsoft is shedding the beta tag for its custom Bing search engine that caters to users in the United Kingdom with a localized offering.