Sachin Ravikumar

Ukraine will receive fresh military support worth 450 million pounds ($580 million), Britain said on Friday, as European allies attempt to strengthen the country's position ahead of any peace deal with Russia.

Britain on Wednesday joined the U.S., European Union and Japan in expressing concern over Chinese military exercises around Taiwan, calling for restraint and to avoid actions that undermine peace in the region.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday met the creators of "Adolescence", the Netflix drama about a boy charged over the killing of a female classmate which has sparked a national conversation about the impact of social media on teenagers.

A 17th-century painting looted by the Nazis in 1940 from a Jewish art collector in Belgium will be returned to his descendants after spending three decades in a London gallery, the British government said on Saturday.

Former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared in a police investigation into the Scottish National Party's finances that had tarnished the legacy of Scotland's longest-serving first minister.

British police said on Thursday they had widened an investigation into manslaughter at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted of killing seven babies, had worked.

The number of potential modern slavery victims in Britain rose to a record last year, official statistics showed on Thursday, highlighting a growing crime that experts say requires the government to undertake urgent policy reforms.

The Ukrainian president's meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer made for a sharp contrast to the extraordinary shouting match that ensued in his White House meeting with Donald Trump and JD Vance.

British international development minister Anneliese Dodds resigned on Friday in a surprise move triggered by Prime Minister Keir Starmer's decision to slash the foreign aid budget in order to boost defence spending.

The mother of jailed Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah was taken to hospital on Monday night as she neared the 150th day of a hunger strike in protest against her son's imprisonment in Egypt.