Stefano Ambrogi

Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir have been jailed for their roles in a spot-fixing scandal.

Revellers have packed London streets for one of Europe’s biggest street parties with record numbers of police on duty to curb any further riots.

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.

Julian Assange’s lawyers are again fighting to block his extradition to Sweden to face sexual misconduct charges, saying the warrant was "flawed".

Royal courtiers were pondering on Wednesday how to tailor the wedding of Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton to the austere times.

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.

A gunman wanted for three shootings killed himself early on Saturday in a stand-off with marksmen in rural north-east England, British police said.

Britain’s air traffic control body said on Monday it had agreed the creation of a new flying zone to limit disruption caused by volcanic ash.