Same-sex marriages in England and Wales can be held from March 29 next year, announced Britain’s equalities minister Maria Miller.
Chancellor says the £60-million profit from the transaction has allowed Britain to turn the corner.
After 10 hours in labour, the Duchess of Cambridge has spent the first night together with her new son and her husband, Prince William.
Ahrendts took home almost £17-million last year, making her the highest-paid woman in Britain.
Britain’s officials are hoping that the impending royal birth will produce a bouncing baby buoy for the economy.
Britain has agreed on a $31-million compensation package for Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau uprising against colonial rule in the 1950s.
More than 8 000 Kenyans are seeking millions in compensation from ex-colonial ruler Britain, claiming mistreatment during the 1950s Mau Mau uprising.
The failure of the British experiment should prove the point made by IMF economists.
Britain is pulling out some staff from its embassy in Tripoli due to security concerns over recent political unrest, says its foreign office.
Britain has announced that it will cut off direct aid to South Africa in 2015, citing its status as Africa’s biggest economy.
The late Margaret Thatcher doggedly insisted that privatisation was the only remedy for Britain’s ills.
Britain has held emergency talks to discuss the discovery of horse meat in processed food in a scandal that has spread to other European countries.
An ambitious British plan to search for minute forms of life in an ancient lake beneath Antarctica’s ice has been suspended due to technical problems.
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Compared to the funding countries such as Britain received, South Africa’s spending was hardly impressive, The Saturday Star has reported.
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has urged Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime to protect the 300 ceasefire monitors due in Syria next week.
Liberal Democrats still courted by major British parties as Gordon Brown announces he will step aside to try to keep his Labour Party in power.
The confidence of the UK electorate has gone,
writes Julian Glover
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/ 29 November 2007
Australia’s Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd unveiled his Cabinet on Thursday, prioritising education, industrial relations and the environment in a break with conservative predecessor John Howard’s legacy. Calling it "a team with fresh ideas", Rudd included four women and a former rock star in the Cabinet.
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/ 24 November 2007
Australia’s Labour party claimed victory in national elections on Saturday, signalling an end to 11 years of conservative government led by Prime Minister John Howard. "On the numbers we are seeing tonight, Labour is going to form a government," Labour’s deputy leader, Julia Gillard, told Australian television.
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/ 21 November 2007
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced angry questions from lawmakers on Wednesday after confidential records containing nearly half the population’s bank details went missing in the post. The disappearance of about 25-million people’s personal data vanished in the biggest-ever loss of personal information by any government.
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/ 10 November 2007
Britain’s main opposition leader, David Cameron, was initially delighted that supermodel Kate Moss asked for his phone number — until he realised she thought he could help her with her drains. The Conservative Party leader said in an interview to be broadcast on Saturday that he met Moss at a charity bash recently.
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/ 23 October 2007
A looming election has turned Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s traditional morning stroll into a walk on the wild side. Television satirists have popped up in his path dressed as rabbits and worms — both well-known political creatures here — while ordinary passers-by have taken to hurling insults at him.
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/ 24 September 2007
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised a new drive to transform the health service and schools on Monday, but again failed to stamp out speculation he may call an early general election. He was to lay out his plans for "a fairer, stronger Britain" in his first speech as leader to the ruling Labour Party’s annual conference later on Monday.
Britain and the United States are privately planning to withdraw most of their forces from Iraq by early next year, according to a secret memo written by John Reid, the United Kingdom defence secretary. Under the plans, Britain will cut the number of its troops from the present 8 500 to 3 000 by the middle of next year.
When 17-year-old English winger Karen Carney took the free-kick that was deflected into the Finland goal for England’s first goal and then, when all seemed lost after her side had conceded an 89th-minute equaliser, calmly powered in the winner, people started talking about her talent.
Liverpool appear to be winning their battle to play in next season’s Champions League, albeit starting off in the qualifying rounds. The idea of fast-tracking them into the group stages was described this week as ”remote” but Uefa is looking at other ways of bending the rules and an announcement may be made soon.
The Waitrose chain of supermarkets in Britain is to plough 20% of all profits from the South African citrus fruit sold in its stores back into farms where the food is grown. The move is aimed at enriching the lives of South African farm workers and their dependents but also ensuring stability in the supply chain.
As celebrations go, it will be a muted one. But at 9pm on Thursday evening, anyone who tried and failed to make a fortune in the dotcom boom can be forgiven for sitting back, pouring themselves a glass of millennium bubbly, and thinking about what might have been.