Britain wants the EU to agree at least a 40 per cent cut in greenhouse emissions but leave members free to decide how to achieve the reduction

Anti-Muslim attacks in Britain have soared since Wednesday's murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich. Faith Matters, an organisation that works to reduce extremism, said it had been told of about 150 incidents in the last few days, compared to betwee

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Britain's benchmark equity index, which had raced to its highest level in nearly 13 years this week, fell sharply for the second straight session on Friday as a decline at...

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Passengers were disembarking from a Pakistan International Airlines jet diverted to London's Stansted Airport on Friday and no one has been hurt, an airport spokesman said.

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Passengers were disembarking from a Pakistan International Airlines jet diverted to London's Stansted Airport on Friday and no one has been hurt, an airport spokesman said.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Two were arrested by Essex Police "on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft" and removed from a plane, media reports from Britain said Friday. British fighter jets hadescorted a Pakistan passenger plane that diverted from

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Britain launched fighter jets on Friday to escort a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane arriving from Lahore in Pakistan to an airport near London after it was diverted from Manchester, the Defence Ministry said

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Britain scrambled fighter jets on Friday to escort a Pakistani International Airlines plane carrying 297 passengers from Lahore after it was diverted from Manchester, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry said.

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - As Britain's stock market watchdog pores over the implications of scandals at mining companies ENRC and Bumi, the role of sponsor banks who helped lead their listings is coming under scrutiny.

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - As Britain's stock market watchdog pores over the implications of scandals at mining companies ENRC and Bumi, the role of sponsor banks who helped lead their listings is...

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - As Britain's stock marketwatchdog pores over the implications of scandals at miningcompanies ENRC and Bumi, the role of sponsorbanks who helped lead their listings is...

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - As Britain's stock market watchdog pores over the implications of scandals at mining companies ENRC and Bumi, the role of sponsor banks who helped lead their listings is coming under scrutiny.

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Britain's leading shares steadied on Friday after their steepest fall in a year in the previous session, with central bankers offering some reassurance that stimulus will...

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 gained on Friday, with central bankers offering some reassurance that stimulus will stay for a while yet, and some investors seeing value after the...

CARDIFF, May 24 (Reuters) - Britain may be as much as three quarters of the way through the process of working off the high debt levels which have weighed on the economy since the financial crisis, a...

May 23 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Britain's Royal Mail, Moya Greene, who is responsible for leading a turnaround of the business, is set to receive an annual bonus worth nearly 500,000 pounds, as the company readies itself for a stock market

A group of drama students is organizing a Google Free Day, highlighting what they say is the minimal share of its revenue that the search giant pays in taxes.    

Britain scraped through the March turbulence thanks to higher imports from the continent through the Interconnector links

LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco executives will not receive a bonus in the current financial year unless they can reverse a decline in profits at Britain's biggest supermarket operator, the company said in its annual report on Thursday.

Tescoexecutives will not receive a bonus in the current financial year unless they can reverse a decline in profits at Britain's biggest supermarket operator, the company said in its annual report on Thursday.

BRENTWOOD, England, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's love affairwith quirkily named real ales and their demand for locallyproduced goods has led to a growing trend in micro-breweriesthat cater to the more discerning palate.

BRENTWOOD, England, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's love affair with quirkily named real ales and their demand for locally produced goods has led to a growing trend in micro-breweries that cater to the...

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Some of the biggest names inliterature, science and politics will pitch up to a smallBritish town over the next week for a clan gathering of theworld's most "promiscuous minds".

Prime Minister David Cameron says openness to foreign investment is competitive advantage for Britain (and Ratan Tata is always welcome at Downing Street).

Submitted by Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box, Most people do not think that Europe engages in Quantitative Easing. They know that the United States engages in it, that Britain engages in it and now that Japan engages in it but they think that

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it has fined a wealth management unit of U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase 3.08 million pounds ($4.6 million) for being unable to show it was giving clients the right advice.

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it has fined a wealth management unit of U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase 3.08 million pounds ($4.6 million) for being unable to...

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial ConductAuthority (FCA) said it has fined a wealth management unit ofU.S. bank JPMorgan Chase 3.08 million pounds ($4.6million) for being unable to...

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it has fined a wealth management unit of U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase 3.08 million pounds ($4.6 million) for being unable to show it was giving clients the right advice.

British regulators fined JPMorgan Chase £3.1 million ($4.7 million) on Thursday for failings in its wealth management division.

Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it has fined U.S. bank JPMorgan3.

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it has fined U.S. bank JPMorgan 3.08 million pounds ($4.6 million) for being unable to show it was giving clients the right advice.

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it has fined U.S. bank JPMorgan 3.08 million pounds ($4.6 million) for being unable to show it was giving clients the right advice.

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial ConductAuthority (FCA) said it has fined U.S. bank JPMorgan 3.08 million pounds ($4.6 million) for being unable to show itwas giving clients the...

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's top shares fell sharply on Thursday as weak Chinese economic data and worry the U.S. Federal Reserve could soon taper its stimulus programme led to profit-taking...

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's BTG said it would make two acquisitions, one extending its expertise in liver cancer and the other a treatment for severe blood clots, to create an interventional medicine business with potential sales of $1 billi

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's BTG said it would make two acquisitions, one extending its expertise in liver cancer and the other a treatment for severe blood clots, to create an interventional...

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain's BTG said it would make two acquisitions, one extending its expertise in liver cancer and the other a treatment for severe blood clots, to create an interventional medicine business with potential sales of $1 billi

May 23 (Reuters) - Booker Group Plc, Britain'sbiggest cash-and-carry wholesaler, reported a 13 percent rise infull-year profit, helped by demand from small retailers andgrowing online sales.

May 23 (Reuters) - Booker Group Plc, Britain's biggest cash-and-carry wholesaler, reported a 13 percent rise in full-year profit, helped by demand from small retailers and growing online sales.

Britain, France and Germany are pushing for the European Union's 27 member nations to share financial intelligence and cooperate on other steps to crack down on corporate tax avoidance.LONDON — European leaders fired a warning shot in the battl

The biggest pity of the IMF’s visit to London is that the hype over fiscal policy will detract from the rest of the report

The International Monetary Fund said that recent economic data were “encouraging” but did not point to a sustainable recovery in the near term.    

After warning Great Britain of dire circumstances last year if it continued austerity, the IMF has rolled back the rhetoric this time around.

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Growth sensitive sectors drove Britain's top share index to fresh 13 year highs, receiving a boost after the top U.S. central banker reaffirmed his commitment to continued...

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Google Inc's tax affairs came under renewed scrutiny in Britain on Wednesday when the leader of the opposition Labour party accused the Internet company of wrongly going to "extraordinary lengths" to avoid paying tax.

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Britain's government should spend more now to fund investment and steer its economy back to recovery, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, a call unlikely to...

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Britain's government should spend more now to fund investment and steer its economy back to recovery, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, a call unlikely to be heeded by finance minister George Osborne.

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Britain's government should spend more now to fund investment and steer its economy back to recovery, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, a call unlikely to...

LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc's tax affairs came under renewed scrutiny in Britain on Wednesday when the leader of the opposition Labour party accused the Internet company of wrongly going to "extraordinary lengths" to avoid paying tax.