The organist on the seminal 1960s song "A Whiter Shade of Pale" has won a long-running legal battle for a share in the royalties for the tune.
A British woman won a major legal victory Thursday in her fight to die with her husband by her side if she travels abroad for assisted suicide.
British lawmakers Monday elected a new Speaker of the House of Commons Monday after scandal forced the previous speaker to resign last month.
British police will investigate the alleged misuse of parliamentary expenses by "a small number" of lawmakers.
Britain's House of Lords voted Wednesday to suspend two of its members over corruption claims -- the first time a lord has been barred from the chamber since 1642, a spokesman for the chamber said.
A British court Wednesday told a business financier he would still have to pay a $13.6 million divorce settlement despite losing a fortune in the credit crunch.
British TV channels could advertise abortion services for the first time under new advertising rules proposed Thursday by an ad industry group.
A Dutch lawmaker who made a controversial film about Islam is attempting to beat a ban on entry to Britain where he has been invited to speak in the House of Lords.
A Dutch lawmaker who made a controversial film about Islam planned to travel to Britain on Thursday despite a ban on his entry.
A medical ailment that has worried male members of string sections across the music world for over 30 years has been exposed as a hoax.
The organist on the seminal 1960s song "A Whiter Shade of Pale" has won a long-running legal battle for a share in the royalties for the tune.
A British woman won a major legal victory Thursday in her fight to die with her husband by her side if she travels abroad for assisted suicide.
British lawmakers Monday elected a new Speaker of the House of Commons Monday after scandal forced the previous speaker to resign last month.
British police will investigate the alleged misuse of parliamentary expenses by "a small number" of lawmakers.
Britain's House of Lords voted Wednesday to suspend two of its members over corruption claims -- the first time a lord has been barred from the chamber since 1642, a spokesman for the chamber said.
A British court Wednesday told a business financier he would still have to pay a $13.6 million divorce settlement despite losing a fortune in the credit crunch.
British TV channels could advertise abortion services for the first time under new advertising rules proposed Thursday by an ad industry group.
A Dutch lawmaker who made a controversial film about Islam is attempting to beat a ban on entry to Britain where he has been invited to speak in the House of Lords.
A Dutch lawmaker who made a controversial film about Islam planned to travel to Britain on Thursday despite a ban on his entry.
A medical ailment that has worried male members of string sections across the music world for over 30 years has been exposed as a hoax.
A squabble between politicians over what happened on an Adriatic Island provides a welcome distraction from the grim economic news
Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza moved a step closer Friday to extradition to the U.S., where he faces terrorism-related charges.
British lawmakers narrowly approved a counterterrorism bill Wednesday that allows authorities to hold terrorism suspects without charge for up to six weeks.
British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, according to a senior British lawmaker.
A former archbishop of Canterbury called Saturday for the release of five British hostages in Iraq, appealing to their captors as "men of faith."
Britain's Ministry of Defense has released files on UFO sightings dating back to the 1970s, including witness accounts and the government's response.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher walked out of a London hospital Saturday morning where she spent the night after feeling "unwell" during a dinner at the House of Lords.
Britain's highest court decided Wednesday that a rapist who won the lottery while in prison may be sued by his victim even though the statute of limitations ran out 20 years ago.
A British teacher convicted of insulting religion in Sudan by allowing her students to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" has left Khartoum on a flight home, the British Foreign Office said Monday.
Hundreds of angry protesters, some waving ceremonial swords from trucks equipped with loud speakers, gathered Friday outside the presidential palace to denounce a teacher whose class named a teddy bear "Mohammed" -- some calling for her execution.
Two British Muslim lawmakers are reported to have met a British teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" and they said she was in good spirits.
A U.S. judge extended Conrad Black's $21 million bail Wednesday but maintained restrictions that confine the convicted former newspaper tycoon to an area around Chicago and his Florida estate while he awaits sentencing.
The dukes, barons and other British noblemen who sit by birthright in the House of Lords may soon have to pack their powdered wigs and go, after an historic parliamentary vote Wednesday.
The dukes, barons and other British noblemen who sit by birthright in the House of Lords may soon have to pack their powdered wigs and go, after a historic parliamentary vote Wednesday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has refused to step down before police finish a political corruption probe into his party, despite fears the investigation is damaging his party.
It looks like we're headed for a huge political fight -- not between Republicans and Democrats, but between the Senate's immigration bill and the one passed last December by the House of Representatives: enforcement-only, no-guest-worker, no-path-to-citizenship bill.
A Briton whose American wife and baby were found shot to death last month in Massachusetts was arrested Thursday in London in connection with their killings, officials said.
Marks and Spencer's decade-long battle for a refund on purchase tax paid on its chocolate-covered marshmallow Teacakes has again been sent to the European Court of Justice.
The wife of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged the government not to undermine civil liberties in its response to the terrorist attacks in London.
Airline passengers are putting up with "significant" drops in the supply of oxygen while flying at high altitude, according to researchers.
Prime Minister Tony Blair's government remained under pressure Friday following media reports of a "cover-up" after a document emerged which suggested that Britain's top law officer changed his mind about the legality of the Iraq war shortly before its outbreak.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has rejected claims of a "cover-up" after a document emerged that suggested the country's top law officer wavered about the legality of the Iraq war just before its outbreak.
The two British houses of parliament remained locked in a grim war of attrition Friday over Prime Minister Tony Blair's proposed anti-terrorism law, as authorities prepared to release on bail eight foreign terrorist suspects.
The British parliament is deadlocked over Prime Minister Tony Blair's terrorism bill, despite lawmakers debating through the night.
The two British houses of parliament remained deadlocked over Prime Minister Tony Blair's proposed anti-terrorism law as authorities began releasing on bail a number of foreign terrorist suspects.
Britain's House of Lords has rejected key parts of Prime Minister Tony Blair's terrorism bill Thursday, as Monday's deadline loomed under which 11 foreign terrorist suspects could be set free.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's government has offered new -- but limited -- concessions to speed through controversial anti-terror laws, which have faced tough opposition in parliament.
Thousands of British hunters vowed to keep up the chase Friday after hunting with dogs became illegal in England and Wales.
Britain's highest court has ruled against the detention of foreign terrorism suspects without trial.
A protester hit British Prime Minister Tony Blair with a purple powder as he was speaking in the House of Commons, sparking major security fears.
Britain's economic slump has made joining its aristocracy a bargain. Commoners, both English and foreign, have bought baronies at prices from $80,000 to $112,000, about $10,000 less than a year ago...
The legendary Italian carmaker Bugatti Automobili will mark the 110th anniversary of its founder's birth this coming September 15 with its first model in 30 years: a 220-mph, 550-horsepower two-sea...
What labor is to Democrats, big business is to Republicans, right? Not when it comes to money. Corporate America is backing Democrats over Republicans in November's Senate and House elections. Prag...
Keeping Up's senior policy analyst was on assignment in Britain during that country's recent titanic election and occasionally made entries in his diary. Like these, for example: -- June 6 (in Edin...
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