Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party took a bashing on Friday in mid-term local elections, capping a bad month for the government after Britain slid back into recession.

The main opposit

A kidnapped British aid worker has been found dead in Quetta, Pakistan, nearly four months after his abduction in January, the Red Cross announced on Sunday.

The International Committee of the Red Cr

HSBC on Thursday said it would cut 3,167 jobs as part of previously announced plans to reduce the bank's global workforce by 30,000 over two years to 2013.

The London-headquartered bank added that du

Britain was back in recession on Wednesday after its economy shrank in the first quarter while Prime Minister David Cameron said the country was being buffetted by the European downturn.

Gross domest

Britain on Wednesday finds out whether it is officially back in recession, or if the non-eurozone member has avoided a fresh downturn amid severe cuts to state spending and spreading debt tensions.

The British government has made it clear to the Pakistani authorities that it would not hand over former President Pervez Musharraf to them.

As per British government, it does not extradite individu

Crumbling road and rail networks, high rate of crime and rising taxes may force at least 500,000 wealthy Britons to leave the country in the next two years, a study has revealed.

More than half a mil

Ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2012 matches at the picturesque stadium here, the venue is all set to host a friendly match between Indian and British MPs April 13, a statement said here on M

David Cameron government's plans to enact a law to allow monitoring of phone calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK have provoked a welter of protest amidst accusations of attem

Britain is to allow one of its intelligence agencies to monitor all phone calls, texts, emails and online activities in the country to help tackle crime and militant attacks, the Interior Ministry sai