Suffolk,UK MO It has been standing for 600 years, but the future of Britain’s oldest shop is shrouded in doubt Saturday after it was put up for sale. Historians have discovered the post office and stores in a tiny community of Boxford,Suffolk, was originally used as a warehouse for ...

LOS ANGELES -The next chapter in the wildly successful “Star Wars” movie franchise will be produced in Britain, Disney’s Lucasfilm announced.“Star Wars: Episode VII” will be the first in the series since Disney bought the studio from George Lucas in 2012 for $4 ...

LONDON: Britain is temporarily pulling out some staff from its embassy in Tripoli due to security concerns over recent political unrest, the Foreign Office said. Tensions have risen in Libya since ex-rebels besieged two ministries at the end of last month in a row over a law that would ban ...

LONDON (Reuters): Prime Minister David Cameron took on critics in his own Conservative party on Thursday, saying it would be wrong for Britain to leave the European Union.Some pessimists “say there is no prospect of reforming the European Union, you simply have to leave. I think they are ...

LONDON:Britainhas signed a legal treaty withJordangiving guarantees that terror suspect Abu Qatada would face a fair trial if deported, Home Secretary Theresa May said Wednesday. May made the announcement in parliament a day after the Court of Appeal inLondonrefused her permission to challenge its ...

london - A senior member of the International Monetary Fund added to calls Saturday for Britain to slow the pace of its austerity programme, a day after the country was stripped of its triple-A rating.David Lipton, the IMF's first deputy managing director, said the "pace of consolidation" should be ...

LONDON: The British govt has launched a legal challenge against plans for a European financial transactions tax to be adopted by 11 EU states, finance minister George Osborne said Friday.Osborne said an application had been lodged at the European Court of Justice against the Financial Transaction ...

LONDON : Two men were jailed for up to 16 years in Britain on Thursday for planning acts of terrorism including an al-Qaeda-inspired plot to send a remote-controlled toy car into an army reservist centre.Zahid Iqbal, 31, and Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, 25, had discussed building an explosive device ...

LONDONAFP  Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest on Wednesday with military pageantry and pockets of protests, in a funeral that reflected the polarising impact of Britain's longest-serving post-war prime minister.Queen Elizabeth II led mourners from the British establishment and 170 countries in ...

SOUL sensation Adele has topped this year’s countdown of Britain’s richest young musicians with an estimated £30 million fortune.The Rolling In The Deep hitmaker, who turns 25 next month, is number one on the Sunday Times’ annual under 30 rich list for the second year ...

LONDON (DS) Chinese has been named Britain’s most popular takeaway. The East Asian cuisine topped a survey of 2,000 people, aged 25-34, carried out by VoucherCodes, drawing 25% of the vote. Indian (23%) and fish and chips (22%) came second and third respectively, while pizza garnered 14% of ...

LONDON  - Britain on Thursday urged Saudi Arabia not to carry out the “grotesque” punishment of paralysis for a man whose alleged crime took place when he was just 14 years old.Ali al-Khawahir, 24, has reportedly been sentenced to “Qisas” for allegedly paralysing a ...

LONDON  - Britain should not increase aid to nuclear-armed Pakistan unless Islamabad tries to make its wealthy elite pay more taxes, British lawmakers recommended Thursday.Britain is due to double its assistance to Pakistan to £446 million ($675 million) in 2014-2015, making it the ...

LONDON - Britain should be celebrating the start of spring but the kingdom was shivering Friday after heavy snowfall left tens of thousands of homes without power. BBC weather forecasters said some 20 to 40 centimetres (eight to 16 inches) of snow would fall in the worst-affected areas. Northern ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON - Britain has flown 120 Ghanaian troops to Bamako to participate in the African intervention in Mali, the Ministry of Defence said Thursday.The same Royal Air Force C17 transport plane that has been used to help French troops get on the ground quickly to drive militants out of ...

LONDON (AFP) - The British government said on Tuesday it was making up to 5,300 army personnel redundant as part of cuts that will see troop numbers reduced to the lowest since the early 19th century.The Ministry of Defence said soldiers returning from or heading to Afghanistan would be exempt from ...

LONDON  - Britain will use its chairmanship of the Group of Eight richest nations to focus on the threat of terrorism following developments in Algeria and Mali, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday. Cameron said the "evolving" threat from Al-Qaeda and other jihadists in north Africa ...

LONDON - A Pakistani man accused by British authorities of being an Al-Qaeda operative who took part in a plot to bomb US and English targets was extradited from Britain to the United States on Thursday to face terrorism charges.Abid Naseer, 26, was one of a dozen men arrested in April 2009 on ...

ANYONE looking for an alternative Christmas dinner this year could opt for ‘Britain’s biggest’ festive sandwich, which reportedly contains a kilo of turkey.The massive butty has a healthy helping of all your Christmas lunch favourites, including potatoes, sprouts, six carrots, six ...

LONDON  - Britain has paid out £14 million ($22.7 million) to Iraqis who accuse British troops of illegally detaining and torturing them following the 2003 invasion, the Ministry of Defence said Thursday.The ministry confirmed a report in the Guardian newspaper which revealed that the ...

President Hamid Karzai on Thursday welcomed the announcement that Britain will pull thousands of troops out of Afghanistan next year, saying his country was ready to take over security responsibilities.British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday said that he will withdraw almost half of the ...

ELLIE MAE O’HAGANThe first time I was trained in campaigning, I was taught that the issue I chose to campaign on must be “widely felt, deeply felt and winnable”. The idea was that people would only become interested in the campaign if they felt a real personal connection to it - ...

LONDON (AFP) - British defence giant BAE Systems will complete construction of the Royal Navy’s new submarine HMS Audacious in a deal worth £1.2 billion, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced Monday. The contract (equivalent to $1.9 billion, 1.5 billion euros) for Audacious, the ...

LONDON (AFP) - Britain’s interior ministry said on Monday that it had applied for permission to appeal against a decision by judges preventing terror suspect Abu Qatada from being extradited to Jordan. “We confirm that we have submitted our grounds for appeal,” a Home Office ...

LONDON  - British finance minister George Osborne said on Sunday that he would stick with his deficit-reduction program when he presents a half-yearly fiscal statement.The Chancellor of the Exchequer declined to comment more specifically on whether he would be able to meet debt targets, but ...

london - The British government has warned its citizens to avoid travelling in Pakistan during Muharram. The British Foreign Ministry asked its citizens to avoid travelling to Peshawar, Charsadda, Kohat, Tank, Dera Ismail Khan, Lakki Marwat, Bannu and FATA during Muharram. The ministry advised it ...

LONDON - Britain could lose the £66 billion ($105 billion, 82 billion euros) it spent on rescuing Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group and made key errors over failed lender Northern Rock, lawmakers said on Friday.The Public Accounts Committee — a panel of British lawmakers ...

DAMASCUS - Bombings, clashes and air strikes shook Syria on Tuesday as British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would back giving safe passage to President Bashar al-Assad if it meant ending the bloodshed.In the latest in a wave of bomb attacks, at least 10 civilians were killed and 40 wounded ...

KARACHI  - Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan met with the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Foreign Development in London.The Department of Foreign Development is responsible to cooperate in the health and education sectors. The Secretary assured the Sindh Governor to extend full ...

AHMEDABAD - Britain held talks Monday with Indian regional leader Narendra Modi, ending a 10-year boycott over deadly religious riots in Gujarat state that left more than 2,000 dead, including three Britons.Modi, a Hindu nationalist who is tipped as a possible future prime minister, came to power ...