By Maria Golovnina LONDON (Reuters) - Britain opens a judicial inquiry into the death of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky on Thursday to establish how he died in the locked bathroom of his vast mansion near London. Berezovsky, who survived years of ... [Full Article]
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Former British foreign secretary David Miliband, once tipped as a potential prime minister, said on Wednesday he was leaving politics to boost his brother's chances of leading the opposition Labour party to vi... [Full Article]
By Claire Davenport BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain suffered a long-expected political defeat on Wednesday when it failed to stop European Union countries waving through a cap on bankers' bonuses, an EU law that will hit London hardest. Corporate l... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government on Wednesday lost the latest round of its long-running legal battle to deport radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, who is wanted in his native Jordan after having been convicted of terrorism charges in 1999. Suc... [Full Article]
By Huw Jones and Matt Scuffham LONDON (Reuters) - Start-up banks in Britain will not need as much capital as their established rivals starting from April, Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA) said, in a move to boost competition. Under p... [Full Article]
By Rosalba O'Brien LONDON (Reuters) - Britain announced a shake-up of rail concessions on Tuesday, returning one service to private hands and announcing dates for other sales as it tries to get the process back on track after a botched franchise... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - The head of Britain's domestic intelligence service, MI5, will step down next month after five years in the job, the interior minister said on Monday. Jonathan Evans, who joined MI5 in 1980 after graduating from Bristol Univer... [Full Article]
By Olivia Harris ASCOT, England (Reuters) - Specialist police with nuclear and chemical training searched the British home of former Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky on Sunday, a day after the fervent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin died ... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Boris Berezovsky, a Russian tycoon and former Kremlin insider who became one of President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, died in London on Saturday, Russian news agencies reported, citing relatives and a lawyer. The Interf... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's wholesale gas prices surged to a record high on Friday, after one of its three gas import pipelines shut down unexpectedly. The operator of the UK-Belgium Interconnector pipeline said a technical problem had forced t... [Full Article]
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