Huge red banners hang over Moscow's Red Square and hundreds of Communist dignitaries are awaiting the annual May Day parade as the announcer's ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Bob Dylan reminisces about Christmas past, turkey dinners and his favorite holiday songs in a rare interview in a ...
England manager Martin Johnson has insisted he won't respond to "hysterical" critics calling for his coaching staff to be sacked and would stand by his backroom team. Either side of a deeply uninspiring win over Argentina, England were well beaten this month ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A second of Sony Ericsson's new smartphones, key to its strategy for returning to profit next year, has been hit by software problems in Britain ahead of a critical sales period. A spokesman for the world's fourth-largest mobile phone ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The largest haul of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, unearthed by a metal-detector enthusiast in a farmer's field, has been valued at 3.28 million pounds ($5.5 million) by a committee of experts. The Staffordshire Hoard, found by Terry Herbert ...
BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - UK bank Lloyds' army of small investors grilled executives for over three hours on Thursday over secret central bank loans and mistakes made during the crisis, but agreed to back a record-breaking rights issue. Britain's largest retail bank ...
Britain's Tony Blair may have swung behind US calls for regime change in Iraq after meeting President George W. Bush at his Texas ranch in 2002, a top diplomat told an inquiry into the war on Thursday. Christopher Meyer, then Britain's ambassador ...
Britain's Tony Blair may have swung behind US calls for regime change in Iraq after meeting President George W. Bush at his Texas ranch in 2002, a top diplomat told an inquiry into the war on Thursday. Christopher Meyer, then Britain's ambassador ...
Shareholders in state-controlled Lloyds Banking Group on Thursday overwhelmingly approved its plans to raise 13.5 billion pounds in Britain's biggest-ever rights issue, the bank said. More than 99 percent of voting shareholders backed a plan for the bank to raise the equivalent ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The conversion of all UK farmland to organic farming would achieve the equivalent carbon savings to taking nearly one million cars off the road, the Soil Association said on Thursday. Britain's largest organic certification body, issuing results of a ...
More than a quarter of drinkers in England who exercise regularly do so in an attempt to make up for bingeing on alcohol, according to a survey published on Thursday. A total of 28 percent exercise in an attempt to burn off ...
The World Health Organization says isolated cases of drug-resistant swine flu in Britain and the United States have not changed the agency's assessment of the disease. It says Tamiflu remains highly effective against the vast majority of H1N1 cases. Four cancer patients ...
