BASEL (Reuters) - Wayne Rooney scored his first international goal for almost one year to set England on the way to a 3-1 win away to Switzerland in their Euro 2012 qualifier on Tuesday.
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Rooney on target to set up England’s Swiss stroll
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Nations should help investigate allegations that opposition figures in Bahrain have been tortured in prison in the run-up to next month’s elections, a British lawmaker said on Tuesday.
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U.N. must probe Bahrain torture allegations - UK lawmaker
LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings PLC said on Tuesday its Group chairman Stephen Green is stepping down to become Minister of State for Trade and Investment.
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HSBC confirms Chairman Green to step down
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain promoted one of its top financial crimebusters on Tuesday to help keep experienced staff on board at a watchdog set to be abolished in two years’ time.
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Government promotes financial crimebuster as shake-up looms
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is falling behind other industrialised nations in the race to produce the highly skilled graduates needed to remain competitive in the world economy, an international survey of education found on Tuesday.
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UK falls behind in international graduate race
LONDON (Reuters) - Change swept through the top banks on Tuesday as Barclays said its investment banking supremo Bob Diamond will take over as group chief executive next year and HSBC was expected to announce later that its chairman is going into government.
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All change at banks, Diamond gets top Barclays job
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s tabloid Sun newspaper launched its own celebrity perfume on Monday to provide readers with the scent of showbiz.
LONDON (Reuters) - A floating duck house, which came to symbolise a scandal which erupted last year over British politicians’ expenses, has been sold and the money given to a cancer charity, the organisation said on Monday.
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Duck house, symbol of MPs’ expense scandal, sold
LONDON (Reuters) - Four priceless tapestries designed by the Renaissance master Raphael have gone on display with their original drawings for the first time at an exhibition in London to coincide with Pope Benedict’s visit to Britain.
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Raphael tapestries go on show in Britain
LONDON (Reuters) - A giant bale of hay has killed a founding member of the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) band after it tumbled down a hill and crashed into his van.
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Giant hay bale kills former ELO cellist
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron’s communications chief denied on Monday that he encouraged reporters to illegally hack into phone messages in his previous role as a tabloid newspaper editor.
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Coulson "happy to speak to police"
LONDON (Reuters) - Tony Blair said on Monday he was considering cancelling a book-signing in London this week to mark the launch of his memoirs, over fears the event would be hit by protests.
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Blair "may cancel" book-signing over protests
LONDON (Reuters) - Police said on Sunday they had sought more information about claims that reporters at the News of the World newspaper illegally hacked into voicemail accounts to eavesdrop on people’s phone messages.
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Police seek information on newspaper eavesdropping
LONDON (Reuters) - Public sector job opportunities in IT have fallen markedly since the start of the year, a survey showed Monday, in a sign that the government’s austerity drive is already affecting the labour market.
LONDON (Reuters) - As commuters prepared for travel chaos on Monday at the start of a series of strikes on the London Underground, management and unions traded blows over new safety claims.
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London Tube commuters braced for travel chaos
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch painter Corneille, co-founder of the avant-garde Cobra movement, died on Sunday at the age of 88, the Dutch Cobra museum said on Sunday.
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Dutch painter and Cobra co-founder Corneille dies
LONDON (Reuters) - Entrepreneur Richard Caring is considering a counter-bid for British cafe and restaurant chain Carluccio’s, British newspaper the Mail on Sunday reported.
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Caring mulls counter-bid for Carluccio’s - report
LONDON (Reuters) - Tim Waterstone, the founder of the UK book retailer that bears his name, is considering a 100 million pound-plus bid to buy the chain from parent company HMV, the Observer newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Waterstone founder may take chain back - report
CARDIFF (Reuters) - The first Twenty20 international between England and Pakistan was set to go ahead as planned on Sunday despite the latest allegations in the fixing controversy, Pakistan manager Yawar Saeed said.
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England v Pakistan series to go ahead - team manager
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Three people were arrested after protesters threw eggs and shoes at former British Prime Minister Tony Blair when he arrived to sign copies of his memoir at a bookshop in Dublin on Saturday, national broadcaster RTE said.
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Blair pelted with eggs at Dublin book signing
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly six million people are to be told they have paid the wrong amount of tax, and authorities will demand about 2 billion pounds more from hundreds of thousands of taxpayers, HM Revenue and Customs said on Saturday.
LONDON (Reuters) - The cost of car insurance has risen by almost a third in the past year, its biggest ever increase, as insurers seek to offset a sharp rise in claims expenses driven in part by fraud, AA Insurance said.
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Car insurance premiums jump 31 percent - AA
LONDON (Reuters) - The cost of car insurance has risen by almost a third in the past year, its biggest ever increase, as insurers seek to offset a sharp rise in claims expenses driven in part by fraud, AA Insurance said.
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Car insurance premiums jump 31 percent
LONDON (Reuters) - Land Securities is set to bring in Songbird’s Canary Wharf Group (CWG) as a partner to build a new skyscraper in London’s City financial district, sources close to the deal said on Friday.
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LandSecs to partner with CWG on London office - sources
LONDON (Reuters) - A former Labour minister plans legal action after accusing the Metropolitan Police of failing to fully investigate claims of widespread phone hacking by reporters with the News of the World newspaper.
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Former minister seeks probe into NoW hacking
LONDON (Reuters) - Liberal Democrat stalwart and former Rochdale MP Sir Cyril Smith has died aged 82, his party said on Friday.
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Larger than life Liberal Cyril Smith dies
LONDON (Reuters) - Fugitive businessman Asil Nadir appeared in court on Friday for the first time since returning to London last month, 17 years after he fled while awaiting trial on fraud and theft charges related to one of Britain’s biggest corporate failures.
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Tycoon appears in court 17 years after fleeing Britain
ROVERETO, Italy (Reuters) - A woman carrying pole vaults in a purpose-built bag struggles to make her way through a crowd of screaming children at an athletics meeting in northern Italy.
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Pistorius expects to comfortably make London Olympics
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown will join efforts to improve access to education and the internet as part of pro bono work following Labour’s election loss in May, his spokesman said on Thursday.
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Gordon Brown begins charity work
LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of workers on London’s underground rail system will start a series of strikes next Monday after talks aimed at ending a dispute over job cuts broke down.
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London Tube strikes go ahead from Monday
LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland announced another wave of job cuts on Thursday as the part-nationalised bank continues with its drive to trim costs and improve its profitability.
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Royal Bank of Scotland to cut 3,500 jobs in UK
LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary William Hague has denied rumours he was gay and said one of his male aides had quit over untrue speculation they had been involved in a relationship.
LONDON (Reuters) - House prices fell much faster than expected last month but further declines are likely to be modest, mortgage lender Nationwide said on Thursday.
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House prices fall in August - Nationwide
TAUNTON, England (Reuters) - Pakistan test captain Salman Butt and pace bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif will meet their country’s High Commissioner later Thursday to discuss corruption allegations levelled against the team.
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Pakistan trio meet Commissioner over corruption claims
LONDON (Reuters) - Staff at Britain’s BBC voted on Wednesday to strike in protest against the state-funded broadcaster’s plans to reduce a large pension deficit by capping the growth of pensionable pay, unions said.
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BBC staff vote for strike over pension overhaul
LONDON (Reuters) - The identity of “The Stig,” the mystery test car driver on the popular BBC TV motoring show “Top Gear” was revealed on Wednesday after the broadcaster lost a legal battle to keep his name secret.
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Top Gear’s Stig finally unmasked
LONDON (Reuters) - British hedge fund company Man Group Plc named GLG head Emmanuel Roman as its chief operating officer on Wednesday, to help Man Group integrate its recent acquisition of the GLG business.
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GLG’s Roman named Man Group chief operating officer
LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in Spice Plc, Britain’s biggest installer of water meters, rose strongly on Wednesday in anticipation of a bidding war as the company revealed it was in talks with a second potential bidder.
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New bidder emerges for UK’s Spice
LONDON (Reuters) - A special constable found guilty of assaulting an off-duty soldier while trying to arrest him was jailed for three years on Wednesday.
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Special constable jailed for soldier assault
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish retail sales fell in July and jobless claims rose last month, adding to fears that a nascent recovery from the euro-zone’s deepest recession may have already hit a wall.
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Irish recovery stutters as retail falls, jobless rises
LONDON (Reuters) - Adam Sandler’s new comedy “Grown Ups” has knocked Sylvester Stallone’s latest mercenary action movie off the UK box office top spot after just one week, according to Screen International on Wednesday.
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Adam Sandler’s "Grown Ups" knocks Stallone off top spot
LONDON (Reuters) - Official statistics place too much weight on a standard European Union inflation measure at the expense of a national index more suited to wage negotiations, experts said in a letter published on Tuesday.
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Top statisticians criticise CPI inflation measure
LONDON (Reuters) - British customs officials said on Tuesday they had had arrested three people as part of an investigation into money laundering.
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Three arrested in money laundering investigation
CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg confirmed on Tuesday that Britain’s combat mission in Afghanistan would be over by 2015 and pledged to protect frontline troops from any sudden cuts in government spending.
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Clegg reaffirms 2015 pullout date for Afghan mission
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Britain’s top annual comedy prize, the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award, went to England’s Russell Kane at an Edinburgh Fringe festival ceremony on the weekend for his show “Smokescreens and Castles.”
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Comedian Russell Kane takes Foster’s award
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The Edinburgh Fringe Festival reported ticket sales of almost two million during the three-week run of the world’s biggest annual artistic gathering of seasoned performers and complete newcomers in the fields of comedy, dance, theatre and song.
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Edinburgh Fringe, Book festivals sign off for 2010
LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday it would discuss closer military cooperation with France in talks this week, but played down a report that the two countries would share aircraft carriers to save costs.
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Government cool on mooted carrier sharing scheme
LONDON (Reuters) - “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling has donated 10 million pounds ($15.5 million) to set up a new clinic to carry out research into multiple sclerosis (MS), the disease which killed her mother.
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J.K. Rowling gives millions for MS research
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly half of the UK public has little confidence in local authorities as they face massive budgetary cuts despite being sympathetic to their plight, a poll by Zurich Municipal showed on Monday.
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Half public not confident in budget-cutting council - poll
LONDON (Reuters) - Mortgage approvals and consumer credit lending rose unexpectedly in July, but total net lending was its weakest since March, Bank of England figures showed on Tuesday.
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July mortgage approvals rise unexpectedly
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan will not suspend any players being investigated for alleged corruption without proof of wrongdoing, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt says.
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Pakistan will not drop players without proof - PCB
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and France are getting ready to unveil plans to share aircraft carriers amid pressure on the British military to cut costs, the Times reported on Tuesday.
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Britain, France to share aircraft carriers - paper
LONDON (Reuters) - British consumer confidence unexpectedly improved in August for the first time since February thanks to a more positive view on the economic outlook, a survey showed on Tuesday.
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Consumer confidence improves in August
LONDON (Reuters) - The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) anti-corruption unit has been asked to submit a report within the next three days on an investigation into alleged corruption within the Pakistan team.
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Corruption report expected in two to three days
HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc delayed retrieval of the failed blowout preventer atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well this week because of bad weather, the top U.S. official overseeing the oil spill said on Monday.
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Bad weather delays retrieval of BP blowout preventer
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland should consider shutting down nationalised Anglo Irish Bank over a period of about five years, the Green Party, the smaller member in the governing coalition said on Monday.
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Shut down Anglo Irish Bank over 4-5 years - Greens
LONDON (Reuters) - British house prices suffered their biggest fall since April 2009 this month, declining by 0.3 percent, property data company Hometrack said on Monday in its monthly survey of estate agents and surveyors.
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August house prices down by most since April 2009 - Hometrack
LONDON (Reuters) - England coach Fabio Capello said he regretted the way he announced the end of David Beckham’s international career but added he still had a good relationship with the former captain who would make a top manager one day.
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England coach regrets way he handled Beckham decision
BRADFORD, England (Reuters) - Far-right protesters hurled bricks and smoke bombs on Saturday as riot police kept them apart from anti-racism demonstrators.
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Far-right protesters clash with police
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Britain’s top annual comedy prize, the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award, went to England’s Russell Kane at an Edinburgh Fringe festival ceremony on Saturday for his show “Smokescreens and Castles.”
LONDON (Reuters) - Theo Walcott’s sparkling early-season form continued on Saturday as he scored again in Arsenal’s 2-1 Premier League victory at Blackburn Rovers.
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Sparkling Walcott helps Arsenal win at Blackburn
LONDON (Reuters) - The head of the BBC made an impassioned defence of the state broadcaster on Friday, following years of mounting criticism from rivals and politicians accusing it of being too large and too arrogant.
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BBC boss defends it from critics, rivals
LONDON (Reuters) - One in four women who works as a lap dancer in Britain has a university degree and the majority of those involved in the industry enjoy their work, earning up to 48,000 pounds a year, academic research has found.
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Study finds quarter of lap dancers have degrees
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Steelmaker Corus, owned by India’s Tata Steel, said it had reached an agreement with Thailand’s SSI over the potential $500 million sale of its mothballed Teesside plant.
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Corus and SSI agree scope of $500 million Teesside sale
LONDON (Reuters) - Planners have given London 2012 Olympic organisers permission to build a temporary water polo centre with an inflatable roof.
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Water polo venue for London 2012 to get inflatable roof
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways apologised to passengers after an emergency message warning they were about to crash into the sea was played by mistake.
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"We’re about to crash," BA passengers told in error
LONDON (Reuters) - An intimate portrait of Queen Victoria with her hair down — belying her traditional frumpy image — and a painting she commissioned of an American lion tamer form part of an exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.
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Queen Victoria’s artistic tastes go on show
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s biggest defence industry trade body urged the government on Friday to clarify who will pay for a new nuclear deterrent, voicing fears that its high cost could hit orders for other military equipment.
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UK defence industry asks who will pay for nuclear deterrent
LONDON (Reuters) - Use of weight-loss surgery has increased 10-fold in hospitals in England since 2000 and those who have gastric bands fitted can reduce their risk of early death and cut health service costs, scientists said on Friday.
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Surgery for obesity increases 10-fold in England
LONDON (Reuters) - The government has declared war on the profusion of unnecessary road traffic signs, railings and advertising boards, saying they blight towns’ English character.
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Britain being "overrun" by street signs
LONDON (Reuters) - Net migration to Britain jumped 20 percent in 2009 but the increase was largely due to a fall in the number of UK citizens moving abroad, the Home Office said on Thursday.
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Net migration to Britain jumps 20 percent
LONDON (Reuters) - More tests will be carried out on Thursday on the body of a man who worked for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service MI6 found at a flat near the agency’s headquarters.
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More tests on MI6 worker’s body
LONDON (Reuters) - About 200 Alstom-Metro maintenance workers on London’s underground rail network will strike over pay, the Rail Maritime and Transport union said on Thursday, the second action announced this week by Tube workers.
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Alstom London tube staff to strike over pay - union
LONDON (Reuters) - The deputy prime minister on Thursday rejected a report by an independent and influential think-tank that said the government’s fiscal new measures will hit the poor hardest.
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Clegg rejects budget criticism
LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle said on Wednesday that performing for Pope Benedict during his visit to Britain next month was “her greatest dream come true.”
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Susan Boyle says singing for Pope is "dream come true"
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Happy Mondays dancer Bez was jailed for four weeks on Wednesday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend during a row over money.
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Ex-Happy Mondays dancer Bez jailed for assault
LONDON (Reuters) - The home of a woman filmed picking up a cat and throwing it into a rubbish bin is under police guard in Britain after her actions sparked outrage from animal lovers and even death threats.
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Police guard for woman who put cat in bin
LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of workers on London’s underground rail system will start four one-day strikes on September 6 to protest against proposed ticket office job cuts, unions said on Wednesday.
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London Tube staff to strike from Sept 6 - unions
LONDON (Reuters) - The government unveiled a new look passport on Wednesday after it was redesigned to include strengthened security features and iconic images from across the nation.
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White cliffs to feature on new UK passport
LONDON (Reuters) - Classical music label Decca has signed up with the Royal Air Force to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, a key phase of World War Two, in a bid to top the pop charts.
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Churchill set to music in military chart attack
LONDON (Reuters) - A man who worked for the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 has been found murdered at a flat near the agency’s headquarters, media said on Wednesday.
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MI6 worker found murdered in London
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland’s financial headache worsened on Wednesday after Standard & Poor’s cut its credit rating in a move criticised by the country’s debt management agency.
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Ireland stung by S&P downgrade
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s coalition government’s June budget will hit the poor hardest, the Institute of Fiscal Studies said on Wednesday, directly contradicting finance minister George Osborne’s assertion that his plans are progressive.
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IFS says June budget will hit poor hardest
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain recorded almost half a million new cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) last year, with teenagers and those aged under 25, especially young women, particularly affected, figures showed on Wednesday.
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Almost half a million UK sex infections last year
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s biggest public sector trade union launched a legal bid on Tuesday to block the government’s planned shake-up of the health service, saying it had failed to properly consult the public about the changes.
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Union in legal bid to block NHS shake-up
LONDON (Reuters) - The Handel House Museum in London is a permanent celebration of the 18th century German-born composer’s life and times, but this week honours another legendary musician linked to the site — Jimi Hendrix.
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UK show explores Hendrix’s links to Handel
CLAUDY, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - The government and the Catholic Church colluded to protect a priest suspected of involvement in a 1972 bombing in Northern Ireland that killed 9 people, an official report said on Tuesday.
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Catholic Church and government in bomb cover-up
LONDON (Reuters) - Singer George Michael admitted on Tuesday that he had been under the influence of cannabis when he crashed his car into a north London shop in July.
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George Michael admits drug-drive charge
BANGALORE (Reuters) - UK pawnbroker H&T Group posted a 71 percent jump in profit as it bought more gold from those who sold off the metal amid surging prices, and forecast full year above the top end of market expectations.
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H&T Group shines on gold buy, sees brighter days ahead
BANGALORE (Reuters) - British IT and communications firm Redstone Plc said it planned to raise 8.5 million pounds via a stock and notes issue, failing which it would be difficult for it to continue trading.
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Redstone seeks funding to continue trading
LONDON (Reuters) - UK housebuilder Persimmon unveiled a 70 million pound writeback and the resumption dividends as the chief executive said there may be a dent in the crucial autumn selling season until the government’s October spending review.
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Persimmon restores dividends, warns on early autumn sales
LONDON (Reuters) - UK oil explorer Cairn Energy said it had struck gas in Greenland with the first well to be drilled in the Arctic territory in a decade.
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Cairn Energy finds gas in Greenland
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain faces the risk of sliding into recession and the central bank’s growth forecast for this year and next may be too optimistic, a Bank of England policymaker was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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Bank’s Weale says Britain faces recession risk - report
LONDON (Reuters) - Major oil and gas leaks offshore Britain grew 39 percent last year and serious injuries also rose sharply, the safety watchdog said on Tuesday, warning companies to improve their safety standards.
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Oil and gas industry warned over rising leaks
LONDON (Reuters) - England’s bid for the 2018 World Cup would be unbeatable, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told FIFA delegates assessing facilities on Monday.
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Clegg tells FIFA England’s 2018 bid will be unbeatable
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s tax authority will introduce reverse value-added tax (VAT) charges relating to carbon emissions trading from November 1, replacing a zero tax rate implemented last year to prevent fraud.
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UK to launch reverse VAT charges for CO2 trading
LONDON (Reuters) - A new reality TV show, which will film two people — one disfigured, the other attractive — living together in a house full of mirrors, has been branded a “freak show” by critics.
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Channel 4 reality show branded "freak show"
LONDON (Reuters) - Pilgrims attending the large public events during Pope Benedict’s visit to England and Scotland next month have been issued a long list of do’s and don’ts including a ban on musical instruments and steel cutlery.
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No musical instruments please, Vatican asks Britons
LONDON (Reuters) - British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday it had started final trials of its new vaccine to prevent shingles, one of the most significant products in its pipeline.
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Glaxo starts final clinical trial of shingles vaccine
BANGALORE (Reuters) - British marine services provider James Fisher and Sons Plc posted a 4 percent rise in first-half pretax profit, driven by growth in its specialist technical unit, and raised its interim dividend by 5 percent.
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James Fisher profit up; raises interim dividend