Jodie Ginsberg

British cities began on Wednesday to clean up shopping streets littered with debris from a night of looting by gangs of hooded youths.

Rioters broke into stores and torched cars in central England on Tuesday as Britain's worst riots for decades entered a fourth night, police said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he regretted the uproar caused by his hiring of a former newspaper editor.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will be grilled by Parliament on Wednesday about his decision to employ a former tabloid newspaper editor.

Rupert Murdoch flies to London on Saturday to deal with the escalating phone-hacking crisis engulfing his British newspapers business.

British lawmakers will hold an emergency debate on Wednesday over a phone-hacking scandal at the <i>News of the World</i>.

British voters punished the Liberal Democrats for their role in a deficit-cutting government on Friday by deserting the party in local elections.

Britain's Liberal Democrat leader will seek backing from senior party members on Saturday for a possible deal with the Conservatives.

Britain's opposition Conservatives look on course to be the largest party in Parliament after the closest election in three decades.

Britain bailed out three major banks with £37-billion on Monday as governments around Europe boosted confidence in the battered industry.

Britain will inject up to £50-billion of government money into the country's banks as part of a multibillion-pound package.

It was cramped, often bitterly cold, and had a railway line running through it yet Ireland's Lansdowne Road -- the world's oldest rugby union Test venue -- will be much missed. Ireland played their last Test at the Dublin stadium on Sunday, bidding the ''grand Old Lady'' farewell in fine style.