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The author Chibundu Onuzo reflects on her older brother's path to success after leaving the U.K. for their native Nigeria — and wonders whether she should consider joining him.

High-end luxury brands are reporting strong sales even as retailers catering to more mainstream customers cite a pullback in consumer spending.

Thousands of U.K. train drivers have walked off the job in a 24-hour strike over jobs, pay and conditions, scuppering services across much of the country.

Tartan-clad crowds lined the streets of Edinburgh to welcome King George IV in August 1822.

The World Health Organization is holding an open forum to rename the disease monkeypox, after some critics raised concerns the name could be derogatory or have racist connotations

American Airlines and United Airlines are among the carriers discouraging employees from using their travel perks to fly to Europe this summer.

Portugal’s prime minister says European authorities are considering a liquefied natural gas pipeline from Spain to Italy.

The United Kingdom's economy shrank in the three months to June.

Much of Europe is sweltering under historic heat waves and parched conditions hitting everything from agriculture to transport.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and senior ministers have held inconclusive talks with energy companies amid mounting pressure to help people cope with soaring gas and electricity prices.

Britain is rolling out urgent polio vaccinations for all London-based children under 10 as a reemergence of the virus stoked fears of a wider outbreak.

Aine Davis was arrested at Luton Airport, north of London, on Wednesday after being deported by Turkish authorities.

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Children ages 1 to 9 will be offered a booster dose amid global fears of a polio resurgence. The United States and Israel have also recently reported incidents.

Aine Davis has denied being part of an Islamic State cell nicknamed the Beatles which murdered hostages.

Children were made eligible for booster doses after health authorities reported finding evidence the virus has spread in multiple areas of London but found no cases of the paralytic disease in people.

"We can stand up for every person's right to make decisions about their own body and their own lives," say the people behind the global musical hit.

British health authorities say they will offer a polio booster dose to children aged 1 to 9 in London, after finding evidence the virus has been spreading in multiple regions of the capital despite not confirming any cases of the paralytic disease

British health authorities say they will offer a polio booster dose to London children age 1 to 9 after finding evidence the virus has spread in multiple regions of the city.

The British children’s author and illustrator whose creations include “The Snowman” and “Fungus the Bogeyman” has died.

The world’s financial centers are in danger of becoming passe, as workers opt for a better life post-pandemic.

Political instability, trade disruptions, an energy crisis and soaring inflation are rendering the U.K. an "emerging market country," according to Saxo Bank.

How many zeros in a baggage handler’s salary? As ground staffers call in sick, Australia’s Qantas has asked its executives to pick up the slack.

Users around the world are reporting outages on search engine Google, according to DownDetector.com.

A witness told the BBC that it was the worst flooding he had ever seen in London.

The Horniman Museum promised to repatriate a trove of artifacts, which include objects known as Benin bronzes, looted from West Africa during a British military invasion in 1897.

Here’s the latest for Sunday, August 7: Senate Democrats approve big Biden deal; Biden leaves WH for 1st time since getting COVID; Israel, Palestinians appear headed for cease-fire in Gaza; Adams blasts Abbott for dumping asylum seekers.

Erik ten Hag pleaded for time after starting his Manchester United reign with a disappointing loss.

A London museum has agreed to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria as cultural institutions throughout Britain come under pressure to repatriate artifacts acquired during the colonial era.

Liverpool has made a stuttering start to the English Premier League.

Arsenal’s newcomers have made an immediate impact by opening the English Premier League beating host Crystal Palace 2-0.

Pladda off the coast of Arran is on sale for £350,000 and includes a five-bed house and helipad.

Soaring natural gas prices are likely to drive consumer price inflation to 13.3% in October, the bank said. That will push Britain into recession later this year, bank forecasts show.

Sexual health charities call on the government to take firmer action to control the outbreak.

Major League Baseball plans to return to London next year for the first time since 2019.

The Bank of England on Thursday hiked interest rates by 50 basis points, its largest single increase since 1995, as it tries to rein in runaway inflation.

The family of a comatose boy who have fought to prevent doctors from ending his life-support treatment have filed a legal action requesting permission to move their son from a London hospital to a hospice

The family of a comatose boy who have fought to prevent doctors from ending his life-support treatment have filed a legal action requesting permission to move their son from a London hospital to a hospice. Archie Battersbee’s parents announced the move after the European Court of Human Rights late Wednesday rejected a request to intervene in the case following a series of rulings by U.K. courts that backed doctors who said further treatment was not in the 12-year-old’s best interests because he is brain dead. The family is now seeking permission to move Archie from the Royal London Hospital in east London to a hospice.

Hosepipe bans and the possibility of drought leads several of the morning papers.

The supermarket says the move is due to "unusually hot and dry conditions".

New coronavirus cases fell 9% globally last week while deaths remained stable

New coronavirus cases fell 9% globally last week while deaths remained stable.

England’s women’s soccer team is continuing to generate unprecedented fan interest following its European Championship victory, with 65,000 tickets sold in less than 24 hours for its planned game against the United States at Wembley Stadium in October.

Credit Suisse shares slipped on Wednesday after Goldman Sachs downgraded the stock to "sell" following credit rating downgrades from Moody's and S&P.

The family of a comatose British boy at the center of a life-support battle says it has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in a last-ditch bid to stop a hospital ending his treatment

The Bank of England is broadly expected to hike interest rates by 50 basis points on Thursday, its largest single increase since 1995.

Instagram boss Adam Mosseri will temporarily relocate to London later this year, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to CNBC.

Britain’s Supreme Court says it has received an appeal from the family of a brain-damaged 12-year-old boy whose life support treatment had been due to end on Tuesday

Britain’s Supreme Court has refused to prevent a hospital withdrawing life support from a 12-year-old boy with catastrophic brain, damage.

Britain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to prevent a hospital withdrawing life support from a 12-year-old boy with catastrophic brain damage, rejecting a bid by his parents to extend his treatment. The parents of Archie Battersbee had aske Supreme Court justices to block a lower court’s ruling that the Royal London Hospital can turn off the boy’s ventilator and stop other interventions that are keeping him alive. Archie’s treatment had been due to end at noon on Tuesday, but the hospital said it would await the decision of the Supreme Court.

BA has suspended short-haul flight tickets after Heathrow asked airlines to reduce passenger numbers because of "ongoing challenges" facing the industry.

The cycles of London’s engagement with Beijing reveal how the U.S.’s ability to keep allies in line for its great-power competition is weakening.

British Airways says it’s suspending sales of short-haul flights from London’s Heathrow Airport for two weeks.

BP said its earnings from April to June almost tripled from a year earlier, increasing pressure on governments to intervene as energy companies profit from high oil and natural gas prices that are fueling inflation and squeezing consumers.

U.K. oil giant BP on Tuesday reported bumper second-quarter profits, benefitting from a surge in commodity prices.

Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s oldest and one of the largest, has played a key role in preparing OPEC’s fourth-largest producer for a post-oil future and helping prop up the economy as it was battered by the pandemic. The $769 billion Kuwait Investment Authority is also a leading global investor, with holdings in BlackRock Inc. and Mercedes-Benz Group AG. In a rare move, it ousted the head of its London arm in July, sending shock waves through the normally sedate and secretive world

July was the driest July for England since 1935, according to provisional statistics released Monday from the Met office, the United Kingdom's weather service.

In soccer-mad England, which sees itself as the home of the world’s game, women and girls finally have a team full of heroes who look like them.

A British court is holding an emergency hearing to determine whether a hospital can end life-support treatment for a 12-year-old boy who has suffered catastrophic brain damage

England has won a major international soccer tournament for the first time in more than half a century.

A retired British geologist jailed in Iraq for antiquities smuggling has been freed and has left the country

Novak Djokovic is holding out hope that he’ll be able to compete at the U.S. Open despite not being vaccinated against the coronavirus.

U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss cemented her place as front-runner in the race to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson, winning endorsement Saturday from an influential former rival for the top job. Tom Tugendhat, who was eliminated from the contest in earlier rounds of voting by Conservative lawmakers, said Truss had the “resolution, determination, and passion” to be prime minister. The endorsement is a blow to ex-Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, the other finalist in the race for the next Conservative leader.

It alleged he did it over a six-week span in a NYC hotel in 1965 when she was 12. He just turned 81.

Scientists say the heat wave in England and Wales was definitely turbocharged by human-caused climate change.

The parents of a 12-year-old boy who was left in a comatose state after suffering brain damage have failed to persuade the U.K. Supreme Court to intervene in a life-support treatment battle.

Analyst research reported lackluster demand in the U.S. for McDonald's McPlant burger, which is made using Beyond Meat patties.

It follows criticism of England's only children's gender identity clinic in an independent review.

A British judge has jailed for life a man who killed his grandfather in the first crown court sentencing to be televised in Britain

Many of the city’s people are seeking refuge in Britain as former subjects who have fled their ostensibly decolonized homeland.

Barclays took charges of £1.9 billion for the first half, including £1.3 billion related to its trading blunder in the U.S.

U.K.-born environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, who has been jailed in Iran for more than four years, has been released on furlough.

Britain’s railway network has ground to a crawl after 40,000 staff walked off the job in a dispute over jobs, pay and working conditions.

The parents of a 12-year-old boy in Britain who was left in a comatose state after suffering “catastrophic” brain damage have lost a court appeal to stop doctors from ending life support for their son.

Protesters have turned out on the streets of London and Glasgow to demand faster action against climate change.

The chief of the World Health Organization says the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that qualifies as a global emergency.

Steven Spielberg is bringing his highly personal film “The Fabelmans” to the Toronto International Film Festival this fall.

The Big Four are forming quite a squad at the Laver Cup.

Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic are on the official U.S. Open entry lists but that doesn’t mean they’ll necessarily play in the tournament.

Inflation in the United Kingdom has accelerated to a new 40-year high, driven by rising food and fuel prices that are contributing to a cost-of-living crisis.

Britain’s record-breaking heatwave is spurring calls for the government to speed up efforts to adapt to a changing climate after wildfires created the busiest day for London firefighters since bombs rained down on the city during World War II.

104°F might raise some eyebrows in Metro Detroit, but that’s a record-high temperature in London.

The fractious race to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister has narrowed, with four candidates battling for two spots in a run-off vote by members of the governing Conservative Party.

Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe.

The contenders to replace Boris Johnson are scrambling to distance themselves from the scandal-tainted politician who remains Britain’s prime minister for a few more weeks.

Britain’s first-ever extreme heat warning is in effect for large parts of England as hot, dry weather that has scorched mainland Europe moves north.

In perhaps a more unusual sign of the state of air travel right now, Delta Airlines recently sent a plane full of lost luggage from London to Detroit.

Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will celebrate her 75th birthdayon Sunday, marking the occasion with a small family dinner at Prince Charles’ Highgrove estate in southwest England.

Everyone in Britain who is 50 or over will be offered a fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine in the fall, lowering the age threshold from the previously announced 65.

British authorities issued their first ever “red” warning for extreme heat early next week, declaring a national emergency as forecasters predict record temperatures that will put even healthy people at risk of serious illness and death.

A British aid worker detained by pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine is reported to have died in captivity.

Train drivers at eight British rail companies will go on strike later this month in the second large-scale industrial action set to affect commuters in July.

Emirates Air has rejected a demand by London’s Heathrow Airport for airlines to cut summer flights in a bid to ease travel disruptions.

London’s Metropolitan Police Service has opened an investigation into four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah’s allegations that he was trafficked to the U.K. as a child.

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually assaulting three men a decade or more ago.

British rail workers will go on strike on July 27 over an ongoing pay dispute, a month after the country’s most disruptive railway strike in three decades paralyzed train networks across the U.K. The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers said Wednesday its members will walk out for 24 hours, threatening travel chaos during the busy summer holidays.

Britain’s economy showed unexpectedly strong growth in May, with the three major components of production— manufacturing, construction and services — all posting gains.

London’s Heathrow Airport is capping daily passenger numbers for the summer and telling airlines to stop selling tickets as it steps up efforts to quell travel chaos caused by soaring travel demand and staff shortages.

Roger Federer has dropped out of the ATP rankings entirely for the first time in a quarter-century.

London’s Heathrow Airport has apologized to passengers whose travels have been disrupted by staff shortages.