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Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday expressed Britain’s “unconditional admiration” for the families of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing on the attack’s 25th anniversary. Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on December…

The ceiling of a top London theatre collapsed on the audience during a performance Thursday, leaving terrified theatregoers covered in blood and dust and causing at least 65 casualties, emergency services and witnesses said. The incident happened at…

An Old Bailey jury has convicted two young London men of the brutal murder of fusilier Lee Rigby. It took the jury of eight women and four men about 90 minutes to return guilty verdicts on Michael Adebolajo, 28 and Michael Adebowale, 22. http://news…

Britain’s military is at risk of becoming a “hollow force” with first-rate equipment but not enough troops to use it, the head of the armed forces has warned. General Nicholas Houghton, the chief of the defence staff, made the unusually outspoken criticism…

Jurors in the trial of two men accused of hacking a British soldier to death in a London street retired Thursday to consider their verdicts. Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, are accused of running over soldier Lee Rigby in a car, then…

A three-year-old boy born with a rare condition that forces his intestines through a hole in his abdomen should make a full recovery after a five-organ transplant, doctors have said. Adonis Ortiz received a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and…

Home Office says measure should help an extra 1,500 slavery victims a year in Britain

Britons born in the 1960s and 1970s will be no better off in retirement than previous generations unless they inherit, bucking a trend of rising living standards, a think-tank said Tuesday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the take-home income…

Stonehenge’s new visitor centre opens Wednesday in time for the winter solstice, hoping to provide an improved experience for the million tourists that flock annually to Britain’s most famous prehistoric monument. The mysterious circle of standing stones…

British police on Monday said they had finished examining new information about the 1997 death of Diana, princess of Wales, but had found “no credible evidence” she was murdered. Scotland Yard police headquarters announced in August it was checking…

Public prosecutors on Monday called for British budget airline easyJet to be fined 70,000 euros ($96,000) for having forced a disabled woman off a flight. In one of two cases before French courts this week involving claims against easyJet from wheelchair…

Catholic leader in England and Wales urges rethink on spousal visas and warns many families are split by new income rules

Proposal emerges among range of measures including tougher employment criteria in leaked government report

A small explosion hit Northern Ireland’s capital Belfast Friday after authorities received a telephone bomb warning, police said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. The incident happened in the city’s central Cathedral Quarter area near many…

Private plane carrying ‘near to death’ asylum seeker forced back to UK

Hiring a private jet to get a dying man out of the country looks like the immigration equivalent of a show trial by Theresa May

A man accused of the gruesome murder of a British soldier told his trial on Monday that he loves Al-Qaeda and considers the Islamic militants to be his “brothers”. Michael Adebolajo, 28, sat surrounded by security guards as he began giving evidence…

Three members of a self-styled “Muslim patrol” in London who harassed passers-by for wearing short skirts, holding hands and drinking alcohol have been jailed, in a conviction welcomed by the local mosque on Saturday. The men were jailed for up to 16…

A “technical problem” in Britain’s air traffic control systems caused widespread flight delays and cancellations across the country’s airspace on Saturday. London’s Heathrow airport cancelled 60 morning flights, 20 percent of flights were delayed at…

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday said “a great light had gone out” following Nelson Mandela’s death, revealing that flags would be flown at half-mast at his Downing Street Office. “A great light has gone out in the world,” Cameron wrote…