World Oct 26 London police arrest asylum-seeker who was mistakenly released from prison London police said Sunday they arrested a convicted sex offender and asylum-seeker who was mistakenly released from prison in a blunder that has embarrassed the government.
World Oct 25 Left-leaning independent Catherine Connolly wins Irish presidential election Official results showed strong voter support for Connolly as president, a largely ceremonial role in Ireland. She won 63% of first-preference votes once spoiled votes were excluded, compared to 29% of her rival Heather Humphreys, of the center-right party Fine Gael.
World Oct 08 UK prosecutor says spying case collapsed because government wouldn’t call China a threat The trial of two British men accused of spying for Beijing collapsed because the U.K. government refused to brand China a threat to national security, the country's chief prosecutor said.
World Aug 26 UK’s hard-right Reform party pledges mass deportations if it wins power The leader of Britain’s hard-right Reform party has pledged to leave the European Convention on Human Rights and detain and deport anyone who arrives in the country illegally.
World Apr 16 Top UK court says definition of woman based on biological sex, excludes transgender people The U.K. Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition.
World Mar 03 King Charles meets with Trudeau amid criticism over silence on Trump’s annexation comments Trudeau on Sunday said "nothing seems more important to Canadians right now than standing up for our sovereignty and our independence as a nation."…
Arts Dec 28 Olivia Hussey, who starred in the 1968 film ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ dies at 73 Hussey was 15 when director Franco Zeffirelli cast her in his adaptation of the William Shakespeare tragedy after spotting her onstage in the play “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," which also starred Vanessa Redgrave.
World Jun 26 Many U.K. Conservative voters are considering switching to the anti-immigration Reform party Britain is going to the polls to elect a new House of Commons at a time when public dissatisfaction is running high over a host of issues, from the high cost of living and a stagnating economy to a dysfunctional…
World Apr 16 UK lawmakers to vote on landmark bill with goal to create Britain’s “first smoke-free generation” If passed, the bill will give Britain some of the toughest anti-smoking measures in the world.
World Mar 26 Assange can’t be extradited until U.S. rules out death penalty, UK court says For the WikiLeaks founder, it was a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site's publication of classified American documents.