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A chastened Gordon Brown appeared to see an opportunity to recoup after calling a voter “bigoted.”

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.

This city filled with high-flying investment bankers is also known as the divorce capital of the world, thanks to the hefty financial ...

A British boy successfully underwent a groundbreaking operation involving the transplant of a windpipe which is being regenerated inside his body using his own stem cells, The Times of London reported Saturday.

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.

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....

David Cameron is due to declare to Tory activists that it is his "patriotic duty" to eject Gordon Brown from Downing Street.