LONDON, Sept 10 — Britain's King Charles III on Friday pledged "lifelong service" in his first address to the nation and the Commonwealth after assuming the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday.

ANKARA, Sept 9 — Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest son Charles became Britain’s new king on Thursday after her death, Anadolu Agency reported.

LONDON, Sept 5 — Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has won the Tory leadership race, the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee announced on Monday.

LONDON, July 20 — Britain recorded its hottest day ever on Tuesday, with the temperature exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (40°C) as a heatwave gripping Europe intensified, forcing train tracks to buckle and fuelling a spate of fires across London.

LONDON, Nov 22 — Britain will host foreign and development ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations and from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) at a summit in Liverpool from December 10 to 12, it said on Monday.

LONDON, April 21 — Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the world's oldest monarch, turns 95 on Wednesday, but there will be no public celebrations of an occasion that comes just days after she bade a sad farewell to her husband of seven decades at his funeral.

LONDON, Jan 31 — Britain will next week formally apply to join a trans-Pacific trading bloc of 11 countries, with negotiations set to start later this year, the government said on Saturday.

LONDON, Jan 2 — Britain reactivated emergency hospitals built at the start of the pandemic and shut primary schools in London on Friday to counter the rapid spread of a much more infectious variant of the coronavirus.

MANILA, Dec 31 — A province of islands in the southern Philippines will seal itself off for an initial two weeks from Monday to keep out a new Covid-19 variant found in nearby Malaysia, its governor said.

LONDON, Dec 30 — Britain recorded more than 50,000 coronavirus cases overnight for the first time since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the world, according to official figures released Tuesday.

MANILA, Dec 23 — The Philippine government said on Wednesday that it would suspend all flights from Britain after the emergence of a new and fast-spreading strain of the coronavirus detected there, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.

LONDON, Dec 12 — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will pledge to end direct government support for overseas fossil fuel projects at a UN summit on Saturday, aiming to spur similar moves by other countries to help tackle climate change, his office said.

LONDON, Dec 6 — Britain is preparing to become the first country to roll out the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine this week, initially making the shot available at hospitals before distributing stocks to doctors' clinics, the government said on Sunday.

LONDON, Dec 2 — Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use and said that it will be rolled out from early next week.

LONDON, Nov 19 — Britain will increase its defence budget by 16.5 billion pounds (RM89.4billion) in the next four years, the biggest military investment since the Cold War, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday.

LONDON, Nov 16 — Britain will open two new laboratories in early 2021 that will more than double the country's capacity for carrying out Covid-19 tests, the government said on Monday.

LONDON, Oct 8 — Does a cancelled gym membership spell financial disaster? That is the type of question British banks are asking as they try to work out whether borrowers owing some UK£75 billion (US$96 billion or RM399 billion) in home loans will be good for it when a payment holiday, introduced...