British politician Nigel Farage says talks are underway about Elon Musk making a hefty donation to Farage’s party Reform U.K. The Times of London reported it could be as much as $100 million, which would be the largest political donation in U.K. history.

The U.K.’s central bank has warned about “heightened uncertainty” as it kept interest rates on hold after inflation moved further above target even at a time when the British economy is flatlining at best.

A British YouTuber and rapper known as Yung Filly has admitted in an Australian court to reckless driving while he was awaiting trial on charges of raping a woman three months ago.

A suspected Chinese spy with business ties to Prince Andrew has been barred from the United Kingdom because of concerns that he posed a threat to national security.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to take on the “alliance of naysayers” and the bureaucratic “nonsense” that have hampered construction projects in the U.K. Starmer outlined a series of new pledges that he will hope will change the narrative on his five-month-old government following a slide in its approval ratings.

Vice President Kamala Harris and breakout pop star Chappell Roan were among the most talked-about people this year.

A British chef’s appeal for thieves to return 2,500 pies that were in a stolen van has ended in disappointment.

The head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service says Russia is conducting a “staggeringly reckless” sabotage campaign against Ukraine's allies that risks dangerously escalating the conflict.

Former U.K. Conservative Party leader William Hague has been elected chancellor of Oxford University, one of the most prestigious positions in British academia.

Russian authorities have ordered a British diplomat to leave the country on allegations of spying as tensions soar over the conflict in Ukraine.

Reports say the Russian military has captured a Briton fighting with Ukrainian troops who have occupied part of Russia’s Kursk region.

A spate of iconic rebrands in recent weeks have left some people reeling in a consumerist society where what we buy says a lot about who we are.

An Australian teenager and a British woman have died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos in what Australia’s prime minister said was every parent’s nightmare.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he wants a strong and durable relationship with China as he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Brazil.

British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves says the government plans to merge dozens of pension funds with the aim of unlocking tens of billions of pounds for investment and boosting the U.K.’s sub-par economic growth.

British actor Timothy West, who played wartime leader Winston Churchill on screen three times, has died at 90.

Legislation intended to ban today’s British children from ever legally being able to smoke has begun its journey through Parliament.

Brazilian police have indicted a Colombian fish trader as the person who planned the slayings of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Amazon in 2022, they announced Monday.

British chef Jamie Oliver is on the case of the stolen cheddar.

An appeals court in London has rejected British killer nurse Lucy Letby’s bid to challenge her conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl in her care.

A British chestnut-whacking champion has been cleared of cheating after an investigation into alleged malfeasance at the World Conker Championships.

Hundreds have gathered in London’s Kensington Gardens to mourn Liam Payne as fans around the world grieved for the One Direction singer who died this past week.

Emirates Team New Zealand has built a 6-2 lead over INEOS Britannia in the America’s Cup finals to move one point away from defending its title.

British soccer managers have reacted with disappointment and a degree of resignation after a German, Thomas Tuchel, was hired to take charge of England ahead of a homegrown coach.

Scotland's former first minister Alex Salmond has died at age 69.

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago protested outside the U.K. Parliament on Monday.

A British yacht is back in the America’s Cup finals for the first time since 1964 after INEOS Britannia finished off Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli.

Maggie Smith, who died Friday aged 89, appeared in dozens of films over more than 60 years.

Michael Gove has been appointed the editor of The Spectator, one of the world’s oldest political magazines.

A Chinese aircraft carrier entered Japan’s contiguous waters for the first time on Wednesday, leading Tokyo to convey its “serious concerns” to Beijing over China’s increasingly assertive military actions around Japan, officials said.

A federal court in Brazil has dismissed charges against one of three men arrested in the killings of an Indigenous peoples expert and a British journalist in the Amazon, ruling there wasn’t sufficient evidence to try him.

Officials say protected green and loggerhead turtles are making a big comeback on the beaches of two British military bases in Cyprus, with the number of nests surpassing last year’s record count by nearly 25%.

Russia has accused six British diplomats of spying and decided to expel them.

The United States and Britain have pledged nearly $1.5 billion in additional aid to Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv by their top diplomats.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with his Irish counterpart, Saturday in what was billed as an attempt to reset relations between the two countries after years of tensions following the U.K.’s departure from the European Union.

President Joe Biden will host British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for talks next week in Washington that are expected to touch on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Queen guitarist Brian May has revealed that he had a “minor stroke” last week.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise says it won’t drop its U.K. claim for damages against the estate of British tech mogul Mike Lynch.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed that his government is looking at introducing tougher anti-smoking measures, which could potentially see a ban on smoking in outdoor spaces, including at pubs and restaurants.

A British safety adviser working with a team of Reuters journalists was killed when a Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.

Specialist cave divers working in 12-minute underwater shifts are searching for six missing passengers and crew, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, believed to be in the submerged wreck of a luxury yacht that was slammed by a powerful storm and swiftly sank off Sicily.

Police divers have resumed searching for six people believed trapped in the hull of a superyacht that sank off Sicily.

Tech tycoon Mike Lynch, who died after his yacht sank off Sicily, had been trying to move past a Silicon Valley debacle that had tarnished his legacy as an icon of British ingenuity.

World records are getting shattered in track cycling at the Olympic velodrome.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says a “standing army” of specialist police will be set up to deal with rioting and the justice system will be ramped up to deal with hundreds of arrests after violent disorder rocked cities across the nation over the past week.

Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary has been sentenced to life in prison for directing a terrorist group.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a British army officer was stabbed and seriously injured near a barracks in southeast England.

Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary has been convicted by a London jury of directing a terrorist group.

Inflation in the U.K. held steady at the Bank of England’s target rate of 2% in June.

Archeologists with the National Park Service say they have found musket balls that date back nearly 250 years and were fired during one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War.

The new British foreign secretary has called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, his second international trip since Labour’s resounding victory in elections earlier this month.

We hear you: That was the simple message offered to a group of young people hosted in London by King Charles III.

Newly elected British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made his maiden appearance on the international stage with a strong signal of support for Ukraine and a pat on the back from President Joe Biden.

A trio of extraordinary stories are increasing the pressure on The Washington Post's new leadership, along with highlighting the differences in journalism practices in England and the United States.

June 6, 1944, began with Allied aircraft bombing German defenses in Normany, followed by some 1,200 aircraft who carry airborne troops.

The history of the D-Day invasion that changed the course of World War II is often told through the stories of the men who fought and died when the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

A British neonatal nurse who was convicted of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others has lost her bid to appeal.

Passengers on the Singapore Airlines flight that descended sharply after hitting severe turbulence have described the “sheer terror” of the aircraft shuddering, loose items flying and people wrenched so badly that 20 remain in intensive care.

Inflation in the U.K. fell sharply to its lowest level in nearly three years in April on the back of big declines in domestic bills.

Paul McCartney is a billionaire Beatle.

Luxury Italian fashion house Gucci has brought glitz and glamor to London's Tate Moden museum with a star-studded cruise collection show.

The Bank of England is keeping its main U.K. interest rate at a 16-year high of 5.25% though it gave a broad hint that a reduction could be on the cards as soon as June as inflation is forecast to fall below target.

British officials say the names and bank details of thousands of serving British soldiers, sailors and air force members have been exposed in a data breach at a payroll system.

A former researcher working in the U.K. Parliament and another man charged with spying for China have been granted bail after a court appearance in London.

Forty years and 50 million record sales after the Pet Shop Boys rose to fame with “West End Girls,” the iconic British duo is releasing a new album.

French authorities say five people, including a child, died while trying to cross the English Channel, just hours after the British government approved a migrant bill to deport some of those who entered the country illegally to Rwanda.

Prosecutors say 15 former British soldiers won’t face charges for perjury at an inquiry into Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long Northern Ireland conflict.

A portrait of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work the British leader loathed is going up for auction.

Fashion, most would surely agree, is meant to be seen.

British lawmakers who may have been targeted in a sexting scam were urged Friday to go to police, after a senior Conservative admitted disclosing the personal phone numbers of some colleagues to an unknown individual who held “compromising” material on him.

Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary has pleaded not guilty in a London courtroom to two terrorism-related charges.

The Bank of England has kept its main interest rate unchanged at a 16-year high even though inflation continues to drop from multi-decade peaks.

Organizers of the Glastonbury Festival have announced the lineup so far for arguably the world’s most famous music festival.

The U.K. government says it will back legislation banning foreign state ownership of British newspapers and magazines, a move that could upend a planned takeover by a United Arab Emirates consortium of the Telegraph Media Group.

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer has asked a federal appeals court to toss out her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, saying Jeffrey Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution deal with a U.S. attorney in Florida should have prevented her prosecution.

Novels that give voice to the often unheard stories of migrants around the world are among the nominees for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

British police have recovered a Ferrari stolen from Formula One driver Gerhard Berger in Italy almost three decades ago.

The British government is stepping up security for lawmakers after politicians reported threats and intimidation connected to the Israel-Hamas war.

The owners of a quirky 18th century British pub unlawfully bulldozed after a fire last year have been ordered by a local council to rebuild it, keeping with its previous lopsided specifications.

British lawmakers are seeking reassurances about the nation’s nuclear deterrent after reports that a test of the system failed dramatically last month when an unarmed missile crashed into the sea near the submarine from which it was launched.

Law enforcement agencies say they have infiltrated and disrupted a prolific ransomware syndicate behind cyberattacks around the world.

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has toured battle sites of the Falklands War during a visit meant to underline that the Falkland Islands are a “valued part of the British family.”.

Atom bomb epic “Oppenheimer” has won seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards.

“Oppenheimer” and “Poor Things” are the leading contenders for Sunday's British Academy Film Awards.

The British economy fell into recession at the end of 2023 as output shrank more than anticipated in the final three months of the year.

Seven royal artifacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana’s ancient Asante kingdom have been returned to the kingdom.

The palace’s disclosure that King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer shattered centuries of British history and tradition.

A woman and her two young daughters are in a hospital being treated for injuries after a man threw a corrosive substance at them in south London.

British police are hunting for a suspect after several people were injured with a corrosive substance in London.

Thousands of people have lined a ceremonial boulevard in the heart of India’s capital to watch a colorful parade showcasing the country’s military power and cultural heritage to mark its 75th Republic Day.

Thousands of Australians protested the anniversary of British colonization of their country with large crowds urging for Australia Day to be moved and for a day of mourning on the holiday some call “Invasion Day.”.

The U.S. and British militaries have bombed eight locations used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.

The British navy says two of its warships have collided in a harbor in Bahrain, causing damage but no injuries.

U.S. officials say American fighter jets struck Iranian-backed Houthi rebel sites for the sixth time Friday, taking out anti-ship missile launchers that were prepared to fire.

Indian firm Tata Steel says it will close both blast furnaces at its plant in Port Talbot in Wales, eliminating 2,800 jobs.

U.S. forces have conducted a fifth strike against Iranian-backed Houthi rebel military sites in Yemen.

The U.S. military has launched another wave of missile strikes against Houthi-controlled sites in Yemen, marking the fourth time in days it has directly targeted the group.

Venezuela says it will continue to deploy nearly 6,000 troops until a British military vessel sent to neighboring Guyana leaves the waters off the coast of the two South American nations.

A British warship has arrived in Guyana amid rising tensions from a border dispute between the former British colony and Venezuela.

British Home Secretary James Cleverly is under fire for making a date rape joke at a party just hours after announcing plans to crack down on the offense.