REUTERS, Nov 23 — Britain could give regulatory approval to Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine this week, even before the United States authorises it, the Telegraph news site reported on Sunday.

LONDON, Nov 1 — Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered England back into a national lockdown after the United Kingdom passed the milestone of one million Covid-19 cases and a second wave of infections threatened to overwhelm the health service.

LONDON, Oct 22 — British government data published Wednesday showed that 26,688 more people tested positive for coronavirus — a 25 per cent rise from Tuesday and its highest daily total recorded for the entire pandemic period.

LONDON, OCT 22 — Some 12 million people in Britain are likely to struggle with bills and loan repayments as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to wreak economic havoc, a Financial Conduct Authority survey tracking consumer financial resilience showed on Thursday.

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...

HANOI/LONDON, Oct 1 — Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Wednesday he hopes to conclude talks on a free trade agreement with the United Kingdom soon, the government said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 — The United Kingdom has affirmed its support for Asean’s economic ambitions and commitment to strengthening the region’s resilience against the impact of Covid-19.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 21 — Malaysia and the United Kingdom today exchanged the Bilateral Work Arrangement (BWA) that allows spouses of both foreign service officers serving in Kuala Lumpur and London to undertake and seek employment opportunities.

NEW DELHI, June 3 — India's coronavirus infections crossed 200,000, official figures showed today, and a peak could still be weeks away in the world's second-most populous country, where the economy has begun re-opening after a lockdown imposed in March.

ROME, June 3 — Italy is lifting the next part of coronavirus-related restrictions on Wednesday, which will allow residents to move freely across the country, and citizens of the Schengen countries and the UK to come to Italy as tourists, reported Sputnik news agency.

MOSCOW, May 29 — Hundreds of thousands of smokers are wanting to quit during the global pandemic of the Covid-19 lung disease, said Ruediger Krech, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) director of Health Promotion, reported Sputnik News Agency.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 — The Foreign Ministry is planning to bring home Malaysian students in the United Kingdom (UK) in the near future but is facing problems arranging the flights.

NEW YORK, May 21 — Global coronavirus cases surpassed 5 million on Wednesday, with Latin America overtaking the United States and Europe in the past week to report the largest portion of new daily cases globally.

ANKARA, May 20 — The global tally for novel coronavirus infections surpassed 4.9 million on Wednesday, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University.

LONDON, May 6 — Britain has overtaken Italy as the worst-hit country in Europe by the novel coronavirus, reported Xinhua news agency, according to the latest official figures released Tuesday.