RISHI SUNAK

Britain has given the go-ahead for a major oil and gas project in the North Sea, ignoring warnings from scientists and the United Nations that countries must stop developing new fossil fuel resources if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Britain is pitching itself to the world as a ready leader in shaping an international response to the rise of artificial intelligence.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he’s delaying by five years a ban on new gas and diesel cars that had been due to take effect in 2030.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to water down some of Britain’s environmental commitments, saying the country must fight climate change without penalizing workers and consumers.

The United Nations chief delivered a dire warning to leaders from across the world.

For two years, it was the coronavirus pandemic.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has described American XL Bully dogs as a “danger to our communities” and announced plans to ban them following a public outcry after a series of recent attacks.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has chastised China’s premier for what he called unacceptable interference in British democracy after a newspaper reported that a researcher in Parliament was arrested earlier this year on suspicion of spying for Beijing.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi touted his country as well-placed to bridge gaps in the Group of 20 top economies and solve global problems.

Britain is rejoining the European Union’s $100-billion science-sharing program.

The British government has been accused of “cutting corners” as it published a list of 147 schools in England that are potentially at risk of collapse from crumbling concrete.

British lawmakers have headed back to Parliament after their summer break but thousands of U.K. children won’t be returning to their classrooms this week.

One of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s staunchest Cabinet allies has been named defense U.K. secretary.

London’s traffic cameras are under attack.

It’s easy to understand why Gail Newsham can’t stop grinning as she prepares for England’s soccer team to play in the final of the Women’s World Cup.

New Zealand has removed the last of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions, marking the end of a government response to the pandemic that was watched closely around the world.

Five Greenpeace demonstrators have been arrested after they draped the country estate of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in black fabric to protest the expansion of oil drilling in the North Sea.

Jill Biden says exercise helps her find “inner strength.”.

A British court has ruled against five London suburbs that tried to block a pollution tax on older cars.

Britain’s High Court has ruled that the government acted unlawfully when it routinely housed newly arrived unaccompanied child asylum seekers in hotels.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he is committed to paying out compensation swiftly to thousands of people affected by the country’s infected blood scandal, which saw more than 2,000 patients die after contracting HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood in the 1970s and 1980s.

Tens of thousands of doctors in Britain’s state-funded health service will go on strike for a further four days in August as their pay dispute with the government shows few if any signs of resolution.

Voters weary of economic pain and political turmoil have handed Britain’s governing Conservatives two thumping defeats in a trio of special elections.

The U.K. Treasury says the amount of public funding for King Charles III and the royal family’s official duties has been recalculated for next year because of an unexpected profit boost from offshore wind farms on the monarch’s Crown Estate.

Voters are going to the polls in three electoral districts of England, with the governing Conservative Party braced for a drubbing over a cost-of-living crisis and a morale-sapping string of political scandals.

U_K_ Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by saying that a previous ban on LGBTQ+ people serving in the U_K_ military was “an appalling failure of the British state.”.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party faces a trio of unwanted verdicts from voters this week.

A vessel that will accommodate up to 500 asylum-seekers has arrived in England as Parliament passed its controversial bill to curb migration.

For millions in the U.K., the cost-of-living crisis just never seems to ease.

The British government has offered millions of public sector workers pay raises in a bid to end an array of strikes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has received a hero’s welcome at a concert in Lithuania’s capital where he arrived to meet with NATO leaders.

President Joe Biden and King Charles III have used their first meeting in their respective roles to highlight the generational issue of climate change.

A dash of pomp and a dose of politics are on the agenda during President Joe Biden's stopover visit to the U.K. He's due to discuss the environment with King Charles III and the war in Ukraine with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

President Joe Biden leaves on Sunday for Europe, where he'll spend time in three nations tending to alliances that have been tested by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The U.K. is celebrating the 75th birthday of its beloved but increasingly creaky National Health Service.

Homeowners and renters in the U.K. are facing further grim news as mortgage rates hit levels not seen since unfunded tax cuts announced by the government last fall spooked investors.

President Joe Biden will head to Europe at week’s end for a three-country trip intended to bolster the international coalition against Russian aggression as the war in Ukraine extends well into its second year.

A British court has ruled that a government plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda in an attempt to deter migrants from making risky journeys across the English Channel is unlawful.

The United States has Air Force One.

Baseball in Britain got a boost from the national team's performance at the World Baseball Classic.

Ukraine’s allies have pledged several billion dollars in non-military aid to rebuild the country’s war-ravaged infrastructure, cut corruption and help pave its road to eventual membership in the European Union.

Britain’s House of Commons is likely to endorse a report that found Boris Johnson lied to lawmakers about lockdown-flouting parties in his office.

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates says he is visiting Beijing.

President Joe Biden is welcoming outgoing NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg to the White House on Monday as the competition to find his successor to lead the military alliance heats up.

President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order aiming to bolster job opportunities for military and veteran spouses whose careers are often disrupted by their loved ones’ deployments.

President Joe Biden is welcoming Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for wide-ranging talks on Thursday as the British leader makes his first White House visit as premier.

The war in Ukraine is top of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s agenda as he starts a two-day trip to Washington.

President Joe Biden is welcoming Denmark and Britain’s prime ministers this week to Washington for talks that will focus heavily on the war in Ukraine—including the recently-launched effort to train, and eventually equip, Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets.

Critics accuse the British administration of running “government by WhatsApp” due to the popularity of the messaging app with politicians and officials.

Police say a car has collided with the gates of Downing Street in central London, where the British prime minister’s home and offices are located.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the government's interior minister won’t face investigation over allegations that she tried to pull strings after getting a speeding ticket.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he is working in the “most effective way possible” to secure the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Britain’s government has unveiled its long-awaited semiconductor strategy.

Japan and Britain have struck what they are calling a historic accord on cooperation in defense, clean energy and semiconductors.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in Hiroshima on Thursday as he prepared to welcome world leaders to the Group of Seven meeting in the western Japanese city that was the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts have agreed to separate meetings with a delegation of African heads of state to discuss a possible plan to end the war in Ukraine.

Leaders from across the continent are heading toward Iceland for a rare summit of the 46-nation Council of Europe that will once more step up support for member state Ukraine and condemn expelled Russia for inflicting war on its neighbor.

British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace says the U.K. is sending Ukraine long-range cruise missiles to help push back Russian forces.

A day after a gilded coronation ceremony watched by millions, King Charles III and Queen Camilla had a much more relaxing time as they took in a concert featuring Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and others at Windsor Castle.

After attending the coronation of King Charles III in London, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced the lack of concerted efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent four years in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison.

Britain’s Conservative Party endured a drubbing in local elections that delivered a warning to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government, and a boost to the opposition, as a national election approaches.

First lady Jill Biden is in London for the coronation of King Charles III.

Britain’s free trade agreements with New Zealand and Australia will come into force by the end of this month.

Millions of people in England are voting Thursday in local elections, the first test of electoral opinion since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took over a fractious and exhausted Conservative Party six months ago.

Microsoft’s charm offensive with the world’s governments is starting to lose some of its luster as the software giant is confronting its toughest antitrust scrutiny since co-founder Bill Gates was in charge.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has declared that Britain and Italy are “very aligned” in values as he welcomed far-right Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni.

British lawmakers have approved a sweeping bill that will dramatically curb migrants’ ability to seek asylum in the U.K. Members of the House of Commons voted by 289 to 230 Wednesday to back the Illegal Migration Bill, despite critics’ allegations that it breaks international law.

U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has resigned after an investigation into complaints he bullied civil servants.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has reviewed the findings of an investigation into allegations his top deputy bullied government employees but hasn't made a decision on his fate.

Leaders of the U.K., the European Union and two U.S. presidents have urged Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party to restore the mothballed Belfast government and reap the reward of more economic investment.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he wants to reverse an anti-math mindset and require the subject for students until they are 18.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under investigation over allegations he failed to disclose shares his wife owns in a child care business that stands to benefit from his government’s budget.

President Joe Biden is on a journey of diplomatic and family celebration.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has praised the bravery of political leaders who struck the Good Friday peace accord 25 years ago as he urged Northern Ireland’s current politicians to return to work.

A civil rights group is urging U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to follow through on promises made to thousands of people of Caribbean descent who were wrongly targeted as illegal migrants in the so-called Windrush scandal.

The U.K. has agreed to join an Asia-Pacific trade pact that includes Japan, Mexico and Australia.

King Charles III has arrived in Germany for his first foreign trip as Britain's monarch.

Scottish lawmakers have confirmed Humza Yousaf as the country's first minister.

The British government is pushing its contentious migration bill forward in Parliament, despite a call from Europe’s top human rights organization to block the legislation.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has welcomed Benjamin Netanyahu to London office while demonstrators gathered nearby to protest the Israeli leader's right-wing policies.

Unrest in France is tarnishing the sheen of King Charles III’s first overseas trip as monarch.

Northern Ireland’s main British unionist party says it will vote against a deal struck by Britain and the European Union to resolve a thorny trade dispute that vexed U.K.-EU relations.

The U.K. is likely to avoid a recession this year, Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt said Wednesday, adding a bit of surprise to what had been billed as a boring budget meant to restore confidence and stability in the nation’s finances.

Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has launched a blistering attack on his nation’s plan to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the United States to modernize its fleet, saying “it must be the worst deal in all history.”.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his family have spoken to by a police officer after letting their dog off the leash in London’s Hyde Park.

China says the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom are traveling “further down the wrong and dangerous path for their own geopolitical self-interest.”.

Tens of thousands of junior doctors are on strike across England to demand better pay, kicking off three days of widespread disruption at the U.K.‘s state-funded hospitals and health clinics.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to increase U.K. military funding by 5 billion pounds ($6 billion) over the next two years in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the challenge posed by China.

President Joe Biden and the leaders of Australia and the United Kingdom have announced that Australia will buy nuclear-powered attack submarines from the U.S. to modernize its fleet.

The BBC’s sports coverage is facing a second day of severe disruptions as dozens of staff refused to work in solidarity with top soccer host Gary Lineker.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed to step up efforts to tackle Channel migrant crossings.

Australia will purchase U.S.-manufactured, nuclear-powered attack submarines to modernize its fleet.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he plans to meet with President Joe Biden in the United States following a trip to India this week, amid speculation the leaders will make an announcement on Australia’s plans to build nuclear-power submarines.

The British government says it will introduce legislation to ban anyone who arrives in the U.K. in small boats across the English Channel from ever settling in the country.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has poured cold water on current premier Rishi Sunak’s new Brexit deal with the European Union, saying he would “find it hard” to vote for it in Parliament.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has visited Belfast to sell his landmark agreement with the European Union to its toughest audience.

The U.K. and the European Union have sealed a deal to resolve their thorny post-Brexit trade dispute over Northern Ireland.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Union leader Ursula von der Leyen are due to meet, with expectations high they will seal a deal to resolve a thorny post-Brexit trade dispute.

Senior U.K. and European Union officials are meeting as part of what Britain calls “intensive negotiations” to resolve a thorny post-Brexit trade dispute that has spawned a political crisis.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to call on world leaders to “double down” on support for Ukraine, saying arms and security guarantees are needed to protect the country and the rest of Europe from Russian aggression now and in the future.