British deaths raise questions about Afghan police

The killing of five British troops by a rogue Afghan policeman underlines concerns about training and discipline within the ranks and possible insurgent infiltration of a police force that the U.S. hopes will be its ticket out of Afghanistan someday.

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Tall Search: Britain seeks height for 2016 Games

Britain is looking for tall talent ahead of the 2016 Rio Games.

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Dig along upper Hudson opens window to old NY fort

A mistake made along the Hudson River is offering archaeologists a rare glimpse into how colonial military engineers built wooden forts, including the key stronghold constructed here by the British during the French and Indian War.

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British road race team unveils first members

A British road racing team that hopes to produce a Tour de France champion within five years has unveiled its first six riders.

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Inside the terror plot that 'rivaled 9/11'

In one of the most significant terrorism cases since Sept. 11, a British jury convicted three British citizens, accused of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, on a charge of conspiracy to murder. Read the latest on the case here.

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Gay wins at Gateshead, looks ahead to surgery

Tyson Gay won his first race since a second-place finish at the world championships, then said he would be having surgery at the end of the season to cure a lingering groin injury.

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Honeywell sells $185M of helicopter equipment

Honeywell International Inc. said Wednesday it sold Britain's defense ministry helicopter equipment valued at $185 million to retrofit their fleet of Chinook helicopters used in Afghanistan.

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Mum's the word on swimsuits for British team

Hoping to avoid any distractions caused by high-tech suits, the British team barred media from asking its swimmers about the issue after arriving for the world championships.

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Lost British backpacker says he was 'total idiot'

A British teenager who was found dehydrated and freezing after 12 wintry days lost in Australia's wilderness said he wrote farewell notes to his family and expected to die of starvation.

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Tour signs deal with Eurosport for UK coverage

PGA Tour television coverage in the United Kingdom will continue under an agreement with Eurosport to broadcast the remaining tournaments on the 2009 schedule.

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Vettel wins British GP in 1-2 Red Bull finish

Sebastian Vettel cruised to victory in the British Grand Prix on Sunday, leading Red Bull to a 1-2 finish for the second time this season.

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Vettel earns 3rd pole of F1 season at British GP

Sebastian Vettel captured the pole for the British Grand Prix on Saturday, while Formula One championship leader Jenson Button will start from a season-worst sixth.

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Brailsford in charge of British pro road race team

Seeking to build on its success in Olympic track cycling events, Britain has formed a pro road racing team that it hopes will produce a Tour de France winner within five years.

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Israel paying $2 million for death of filmmaker

Israel has agreed to pay about $2 million to the family of a British cameraman killed by Israeli troops in 2003, an official confirmed Sunday.

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FTSE-100 share index up 33.78 points at 4,086.25

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at midday Monday.

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FTSE-100 index up 9.54 at 4,118.01

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at midday Tuesday.

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Official: BG pumping $4B into Brazil fields

BG Group PLC says it will invest $4 billion in Brazil's offshore oil fields over the next three years.

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London's FTSE 100 down 22.35 points at 4,426.19

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange closed down Monday.

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FTSE-100 index up 17.85 points at 4,579.64

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at close Monday.

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FTSE-100 down 31.39 at 4,216.59

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were lower in a short pre-holiday session on Wednesday.

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FTSE 100 down 42.69 at 4,287.97

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange closed lower Friday.

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FTSE 100 down 175.50 at 4,213.19

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were lower at midday Friday.

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FTSE-100 down 12.79 points at 4,110.07

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were lower at midday Wednesday.

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FTSE 100 up 65.75 at 4,218.44

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were up midday Thursday.

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FTSE-100 down 74.62 at 3,931.06

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were lower at midday Thursday.

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The number of children around the world living without any parents or separated from their families has increased to 24 million with a third of them placed in orphanages, a leading British charity dealing with children's rights has warned.

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The problem of corruption in Afghanistan was highlighted recently when an international survey placed the country as the second most corrupt in the world. It was beaten only by Somalia.

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A previously undiscovered letter written by one of India's best known female rebels against British colonial rule has been found by academics. The letter was written by Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, shortly before the Indian mutiny - or first war of independence - in 1857.

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MONTREAL Reading the 1995 edition of the federal Citizenship guide, an immigrant to Canada might have been forgiven for thinking he or she was signing up to join the Boy Scouts or the Girl Guides.

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One of Iraq's two vice-presidents has vetoed part of the country's new election law, putting the parliamentary polls scheduled for January in doubt.

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Iran condemns Oxford University over Neda scholarship

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By Kamran Shafi Tuesday, 17 Nov, 2009

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The BBC's Martin Patience assess the damage caused by the blast A car bomber has struck outside a Nato base in the Afghan capital Kabul, injuring three foreign soldiers and three Afghan civilians, officials say.

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The Danish People's Party (DF) has strengthened its immigration stance by securing an agreement to pay 'anti-social' foreigners 100,000 kroner to leave Denmark.

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Two British rowers who set out from Japan on May 8, 2009 to be the first to row more than 6,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, have just rowed under the Golden Gate Bridge and into the record books.

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Britons are among the ugliest people in the world, according to a website that only allows 'beautiful' people to join.

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When British actress Carey Mulligan made her first trip to the Sundance Film Festival in January, she kept her hopes for her film A Education in check and looked at the journey as an adventure.

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For example, a dried apricot talks trash with a regular apricot, telling him, "You've got a face like a backside." In another promo, a skinless drumstick demands that the regular drumstick "get naked, lose the skin...

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n a new biography, historian Brian Moynahan recounts how the young officer successfully led a tiny resistance war that wrought such havoc on Japanese supply lines that local commanders were convinced they were looking for a 200-strong force of Australian guerillas and dispatched  …

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, Despite being relatively few in number, the Afghan Taliban are thriving in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they take advantage of Islamabad's apparent ambivalence towards them, the BBC's Hugh Sykes reports from Kabul.

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The most senior British officer to be killed in the Afghan campaign had warned about the risks posed to troops by a shortage of helicopters. Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, 39, commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards, died in a roadside bombing.

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Describes current utterly unacceptable "justifications" of racism in UK: "But, to borrow a phrase from John Major, on the issue of race and the rise of the far right, it is time to condemn a little more and understand a little less. "

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The camera shows a group of Afghan soldiers standing on a cold dusty plain, listening to an American instructor. He is showing them how to use a new American rifle.

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Two British sisters and their friend endured a two-hour rape ordeal during a holiday trip to Turkey. The sisters, aged 18 and 20, and their 19-year-old companion told police they were attacked after accepting a lift home from a bar in the resort town of Altinkum. Three males, i …

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The art of driving through a puddle and splashing pedestrians is nothing new. But now drivers have been warned they could face criminal charges for carrying out a drive-by-drenching.

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Mr Prescott is 71, has almost completed 40 years as an MP - his UK school tour warns of a of the grim future for them and their children if no urgent action on climate change: "Go home, pester your parents, annoy people."

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A feel good news story... Meets siblings at Pearson after seeking Star's help in finding war vet father Oct 04, 2009 04:30 AM Leslie Scrivener

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By Sanjiv Buttoo Asian Network More South Asian men married to British women are becoming the victims of domestic violence, it has been revealed.

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"Animal lover Emma Hooper hired a hydraulic lift to rescue her pet parrot Cleo."

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With two seats in the European Parliament the BNP has made a leap towards the political mainstream. But, asks Kenan Malik, should those who have so far shunned the party now engage with them?

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