A British couple jailed in Iran after being accused of espionage have gone on hunger strike in a "cry out for help", their son has told the BBC. Craig and Lindsay Foreman were on an around-the-world motorbike trip when they were arrested by Iranian authorities in January.

The litany of recent errors coincides with the ruling Labour Party battling its own economic constraints and record-setting unpopularity.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was forced Wednesday to address reports that rivals in his Labour Party are plotting to replace him as leader, just two weeks ahead of a government budget announcement that could worsen his already dire poll ratings.

A Canadian federal agency says it has shot dead all ostriches at a British Columbia farm, fulfilling a 10-month-old cull order over a bird flu outbreak.

Judges for the literary prize described Szalay’s sixth novel Flesh as "extraordinary" and "a very special book".

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had foiled a plot by Ukrainian and British spies to tempt Russian pilots to steal a MiG-31 jet armed with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile for $3 million, state media reported on Tuesday.

Centrica Plc’s British Gas has been appointed by the UK regulator Ofgem to take on 23,000 customers from an energy supplier that ceased trading last week after cash-flow issues.

Local elections in May will serve as an opinion poll on Sir Keir Starmer’s government. And Reform UK may become the new hegemonic party of the British right