WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, fighting extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, walked free on bail from a British jail on Thursday.
Angry students clashed with police in a rally outside Britain’s parliament before a vote on proposals that could triple university tuition fees.
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/ 1 December 2010
Holders Manchester United were knocked out of the English League Cup after they suffered a shock 4-0 loss away to West Ham on Tuesday.
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/ 23 November 2010
Britain’s Prince William is to marry his fiancee Kate Middleton on Friday April 29 at London’s Westminster Abbey, his office said on Tuesday.
Puppeteers turn themselves ‘inside out’, telling the compelling story of their own lives.
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/ 7 September 2010
Millions of commuters across London struggled to get to work on Tuesday as a 24-hour strike by workers on the underground crippled the network.
Six-time champion Roger Federer came back from the brink of a dramatic first-round exit at Wimbledon on Monday.
The nationalisation of mines could not become ANC policy by 2012, secretary general Gwede Mantashe said in the United Kingdom on Friday.
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 said on Friday they would try to form a government with the smaller Liberal Democrats.
A 13th century skeleton unearthed on the grounds of a friary may be the earliest physical evidence that Africans lived in England in medieval times.
A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano caused air travel chaos across Europe and beyond on Friday, leaving hundreds of thousands stranded.
Manchester United returned to the top of the Premier League on Sunday as midfielder Park Ji-Sung sealed a 2-1 victory over bitter rivals Liverpool.
Perhaps the royal planners thought they would have things in common: whether by accident or design, Zuma was seated next to Camilla Parker Bowles.
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/ 23 October 2009
British police say permanently armed officers are patrolling crime-blighted London neighbourhoods, a major change in United Kingdom law enforcement.
For months after the declaration of war against Germany in 1939, many Britons were convinced the conflict would be relatively brief.
England are uncertain whether Andrew Flintoff will be available for the second Test Against Australia as they aim for a rare Ashes win at Lord’s.
Maria Sharapova was left licking her wounds after losing at Wimbledon on Wednesday while Roger Federer sauntered through to the third round.
Maria Sharapova shrugged off her shock Wimbledon second round defeat on Wednesday by insisting she can regain her membership of the superpower club.
As leaps of faith go, saying that you will definitely go on to win a Grand Slam title is one that Andy Murray is far too sensible to make.
Having finally lifted the crushing burden of his French Open jinx, Roger Federer now targets a sixth Wimbledon title.
Andy Murray may have beefed up his physique, but he insists it is his new-found mental strength that makes him a definite Wimbledon title contender.
Senegalese star Baaba Maal was one of the original icons of the 1980s world music boom and he’s still finding new ways to cross over.
As many S Africans celebrate casting their vote, Hendrik Ramaala will be out to prove he still has the legs to conquer the global marathon circuit.
Sprinklings of positive data suggested the first pieces of a recovery puzzle may be fitting together for the global economy.
World leaders gathered on Wednesday for a summit on tackling the global financial crisis but many were split on the way forward.
The G20 meeting in London is not going to change the world. But it can and must make a contribution to restoring confidence in the global economy.
They’re printing fake money, priming the pop-up tents and putting the finishing touches on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The appeal court cleared a man on Wednesday who has spent 27 years behind bars for murder, in one of Britain’s longest cases of wrongful imprisonment.
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/ 23 February 2009
Police said on Monday they feared a ”summer of rage” with mass protests over the economic crisis that could mar Gordon Brown’s G20 summit in April.
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/ 23 February 2009
Britain will inject billions of pounds into state-owned Northern Rock to try to unlock lending and help the economy emerge from recession.
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/ 18 February 2009
Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih, who won fame with his 1966 novel Season of Migration to the North, died in London on Wednesday, a friend said.