British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz signed on Thursday a treaty targeting smuggling gangs, boosting defence exports, and reinforcing UK-Germany trade ties.
"This is a historic day for German-British (...)
As millions of Europeans set off on their summer travels, new data reveals which airports are most likely to deliver a smooth journey – and which ones might test your patience.
AirHelp, a passenger rights organisation, has just released its annual (...)
The identities of more than 100 British officials, including members of the special forces and MI6, were compromised in a data breach that also put thousands of Afghans at risk of reprisal, it can be reported.
The latest fallout from the breach was (...)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said an agreement has been reached to end the violence in Syria following Israeli attacks on the country's capital.
Israel's military struck the Syrian defence ministry in Damascus and government forces in (...)
Eight babies have been born in the UK using genetic material from three people to prevent devastating and often fatal conditions, doctors say.
The method, pioneered by UK scientists, combines the egg and sperm from a mum and dad with a second egg (...)
Thousands of Afghans have moved to the UK under a secret scheme which was set up after a British official inadvertently leaked their data, it can be revealed.
In February 2022, the personal details of nearly 19,000 people who had applied to move to (...)
Scientists have recovered ancient proteins from a fossilized rhinoceros tooth, breaking new ground in the study of ancient life on Earth.
The 24-million-year-old tooth, which was unearthed in the Canadian Arctic, contains proteins that are 10 times (...)
Harry Potter actress Emma Watson has been banned from driving for six months, after she was caught speeding.
Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the film franchise, drove 38mph in a 30mph zone in Oxford on the evening of 31 July last year.
Watson (...)
While the preliminary report into what caused the loss of Air India Flight 171 last month has provided some answers, it has also prompted a wave of speculation about its cause.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed into a building less than a minute (...)
Scientists say they can study our bodies as we age in greater detail than ever before, thanks to more than a billion scans of UK volunteers.
The world's biggest human imaging project says it has now hit its target of scanning the brains, hearts and (...)
The UK is to start processing Syrian asylum claims again, more than seven months after decisions were paused following the fall of the Assad regime.
Asylum minister Angela Eagle said the Home Office had "worked to lift the pause as soon as there was (...)
Fauja Singh, a British-Indian man believed to be the world's oldest marathon runner, has died after being hit by a car in India at the age of 114.
Police say Singh was crossing a road in the village where he was born in Punjab when an unidentified (...)
Production has begun on the new TV adaptation of Harry Potter, as the first picture of the lead actor in costume was released.
JK Rowling's series of novels has already been made into a film, but HBO is now producing a TV series which is expected to (...)
LONDON — A high-level Saudi delegation led by Minister of Communications and Information Technology Abdullah Al-Swaha visited several leading British technology and research institutions as part of a series of official engagements in the United (...)
Culture is a fundamental pillar for understanding the history and identity of peoples. Those who trace the roots of Saudi Arabia's interest in history and culture will find that the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, is (...)
London Southend Airport will remain closed until further notice after a plane crashed in what witnesses described as a "fireball".
Essex Police said it was alerted to a 12-metre plane on fire at the site in Southend-on-Sea shortly before 16:00 BST (...)
Last summer, a woman was arrested at Gatwick Airport after she arrived from Nigeria with a very young baby girl.
The woman had been living in West Yorkshire with her husband and children, and before leaving the UK for Africa had told her GP she was (...)
The US aviation regulator has said fuel control switches in Boeing airplanes are safe, following their reported involvement in a fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people in June.
The safety of the switches has become a key point of concern after (...)
LONDON — Saudi Minister of Communications and Information Technology Eng. Abdullah Al-Swaha met with a group of Saudi innovators and postgraduate researchers in the British capital as part of his visit to the United Kingdom.
The meeting, attended by (...)
Nigeria's former president Muhammadu Buhari — who once ruled as a military strongman before returning as a democratically elected leader — has died at age 82, his press secretary announced on Sunday.
Buhari died in London, where he had been (...)
Nearly 60 British Labour MPs have called on the UK government to immediately recognize the State of Palestine and take urgent action to stop what they described as "ethnic cleansing" in Gaza, The Guardian reported on Saturday.
The letter, (...)
The UK and France have agreed on a new pilot scheme allowing some migrants who cross the English Channel in small boats to be returned to France – a move UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer hopes will signal a stricter stance on illegal (...)
RIYADH — The Royal Commission for Riyadh City (RCRC) has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the globally renowned Istituto Marangoni, officially marking the institute's entry into Riyadh's Creative District.
The move reinforces the Saudi (...)
USPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened Brazil with a crippling tariff of 50% starting August 1, according to a letter he sent to the country's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
In the letter posted on Truth Social, Trump alleged Lula (...)
