John F Burns Nyt News Service

In a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, US President Obama and the visiting British Prime Minister, David Cameron, are expected to discuss the furor over BP's lobbying for a prisoner-transfer agreement between Britain and Libya that led to the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber from a Scottish prison. The prime minister called the releas...

After one of the most passionately contested elections in decades, Britain faced the stalemate of a hung Parliament on Friday, with no party likely to command an outright majority despite significant gains by the opposition Conservatives and damaging losses for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. But, as the country braced for days of wrangling to form a ...

After one of the most passionately contested elections in decades, the opposition Conservative Party was headed toward big, though not necessarily decisive, gains in Britain early on Friday.

When Prime Minister Gordon Brown was asked in a television interview last fall whether he would agree to televised debates in the 2010 general election - breaking a taboo that has lasted in Britain since the dawn of the television age - he vacillated.

Home secretary Alan Johnson has announced new measures intended to cut the number of student visas issued abroad.

Only days after Tony Blair offered an impassioned defense of his decision to take Britain to war in Iraq, a Cabinet minister who resigned over the war delivered a blistering condemnation of the former prime minister.

British business executives dealing with China were given a formal warning more than a year ago by Britain's security service, MI5, that Chinese intelligence agencies were engaged in a wide-ranging effort to hack into British companies' computers.

The British Prime Minister is being forced to repay over 12,000 pounds stemming from disputed claims following an audit into how British lawmakers spent public money.

In a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, US President Obama and the visiting British Prime Minister, David Cameron, are expected to discuss the furor over BP's lobbying for a prisoner-transfer agreement between Britain and Libya that led to the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber from a Scottish prison. The prime minister called the releas...

After one of the most passionately contested elections in decades, Britain faced the stalemate of a hung Parliament on Friday, with no party likely to command an outright majority despite significant gains by the opposition Conservatives and damaging losses for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. But, as the country braced for days of wrangling to form a ...

After one of the most passionately contested elections in decades, the opposition Conservative Party was headed toward big, though not necessarily decisive, gains in Britain early on Friday.

When Prime Minister Gordon Brown was asked in a television interview last fall whether he would agree to televised debates in the 2010 general election - breaking a taboo that has lasted in Britain since the dawn of the television age - he vacillated.

Home secretary Alan Johnson has announced new measures intended to cut the number of student visas issued abroad.

Only days after Tony Blair offered an impassioned defense of his decision to take Britain to war in Iraq, a Cabinet minister who resigned over the war delivered a blistering condemnation of the former prime minister.

British business executives dealing with China were given a formal warning more than a year ago by Britain's security service, MI5, that Chinese intelligence agencies were engaged in a wide-ranging effort to hack into British companies' computers.

The British Prime Minister is being forced to repay over 12,000 pounds stemming from disputed claims following an audit into how British lawmakers spent public money.