After UK diss, The Wanted fires back with success

Part of The Wanted's excitement over its recent success in America comes from being initially dissed in its native United Kingdom.

Campaign to encourage US tourism launches

How do you sell Times Square and the Grand Canyon? The Carolinas and California?

Message in a bottle is found -- 4,000 miles later

UK, US warn of possible Easter attack in Nigeria

Nigeria is facing a "high risk" of a terrorist attack over the Easter holiday, the United Kingdom warned its citizens Thursday, as the U.S. issued a similar warning to those living in the West African nation that sees near-daily attacks by a radical Islamist sect.

Brits revel in gloom ahead of London Olympics

Fitch affirms rating on UK but downgrades outlook

Fitch Ratings is lowering its outlook for the United Kingdom, indicating a ratings downgrade may be coming.

Argentina to open museum dedicated to Falklands

President Cristina Fernandez says a new museum dedicated to the Falklands Islands will honor Argentine marines killed trying to reclaim them from Britain 30 years ago.

Some med students turn to prostitution to pay bills

Sean Penn: Prince William is provoking Argentina

Sean Penn is accusing British media of pushing for war instead of diplomacy to resolve the United Kingdom's dispute with Argentina over the islands both countries claim in the far South Atlantic.

UK's Cameron tells Scotland: Let's stay together

England and Scotland work "so much better together" than apart, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday, as he appealed to Scots not to break up the United Kingdom by voting for independence.

Scots ponder independence vote with 16-year-olds

Scotland's leader has presented his proposal for a ballot on independence — and his ideas include letting 16- and 17-year-olds cast ballots in a vote that could see the breakup of Britain within four years.

How the major stock indexes fared on Wednesday

The stock market bounced to its highest close since last spring Wednesday after the Federal Reserve pledged to keep interest rates near zero for almost three more years.

NC man to be sentenced on gun export charges

A former U.S. Marine who smuggled dozens of pistols into the United Kingdom is scheduled to be sentenced in a federal court in Greenville, N.C.

Netflix unveils video service in UK, Ireland

Netflix's Internet video service made its debut in the United Kingdom and Ireland Monday as part of a previously announced expansion that is expected to saddle the company with its first annual loss in a decade.

UK's unemployment at highest level in 17 years

Austerity measures, prolonged economic weakness and a eurozone crisis have taken their toll on Britain's work force, with figures published Wednesday showing that unemployment has reached a 17-year high.

UK unemployment at 15-year high as outlook darkens

The outlook for the British economy has worsened because of slowing global demand, sagging confidence and turmoil in the eurozone, the Bank of England said Wednesday as new data showed unemployment rising to the highest rate in 15 years.

Netflix to provide service to the UK, Ireland

Netflix Inc. plans to offer its online subscription service to the United Kingdom and Ireland starting early next year, providing access to movies and television shows.

Separatist Scottish leader ponders compromise

Even as Scotland's separatist leader kicked off his party's independence campaign Saturday, he also floated a compromise option which would fall short of his cherished goal of full separation from the United Kingdom.

Study: Online dating fraud hits 200,000 Brits

- Online dating scams may have hit more than 200,000 people in the United Kingdom and go largely unreported, according to a study released on Wednesday.

Google, lawyers get more time for digital library

Lawyers for authors, publishers and Google on Thursday bought themselves more time to reach a deal to create the world's largest digital library, telling a judge they were making progress in settlement talks but had agreed to proceed toward a trial of the 6-year-old copyright case on a slow track.

Pakistan orders UK to withdraw military trainers

Pakistan has ordered Britain to withdraw some of its military training teams from the country, the British Embassy said Monday. The demand is likely related to fallout from the covert U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden last month.

'Harry Potter' twins climb 3 peaks for charity

- “Harry Potter” stars James and Oliver Phelps didn’t rely on broomsticks and wizardry to climb three mountains in the United Kingdom in a day. They used their own hands and feet.

An all-American turns Scottish nationalist

- Five years ago, a Chicago-born student came to the United Kingdom to work as an intern at the British parliament.

Obama exhorts US, allies to bolster Arab spring

Holding out Poland's transformation to democracy as a model for the world, President Barack Obama on Saturday exhorted Western allies and the American public alike to extend their support, energy and vision to those now reaching for democracy in the Middle East and North Africa.

Separatists win in Scotland, Lib Dems sink in UK

The Scottish National Party won a majority of seats in Scotland's parliament and promised Friday to hold a vote on independence, while the Liberal Democrats suffered an enormous defeat in Britain, losing more than 600 local seats.

As the Queen prepares to celebrate her diamond jubilee, the royal family is enjoying record popularity, but things could get a good deal more complicated after she leaves the scene, according to a new Guardian/ICM poll. Britain would be worse off without the monarchy say 69% o …

By Richard Seymour - Britain doesn't have the same tradition of popular anti-socialism as the US does, so recent red-baiting falls rather flat. Nick Clegg, a "communist". Vince Cable, a "socialist". This is the euphonious sound of the Tory right on the warpath – and with eve …

Who will win the 2012 Eurovision contest?

This year's Eurovision Song Contest is being held in Azerbaijan, which is also being slated by protesters for its human rights record. Politics apart, there are a few good songs in this year's contest, and most of them seem to veer towards the slow, soulful ballads, in line with …

A wealthy jeweller's son who murdered his 17-year-old girlfriend in a jealous rage has been jailed for at least 16 years. Elliot Turner, 20, part of a gang of rich young men who called themselves The Firm, strangled Emily Longley in his bed after becoming suspicious that she w …

The Metropolitan Police has rolled out a mobile device data extraction system to allow officers to extract data "within minutes" from suspects' phones while they are in custody. The capability would be particularly useful if the police force were to face a similar situation to …

Twitter has told the BBC it now wants to work closer with government and policymakers in the UK. The site has revealed that there are over 10 million active tweeters across the nation. The site's UK general manager Tony Wang said it is a priority to "protect and defend" the v …

WASHINGTON – A Japanese citizen was sentenced yesterday in Los Angeles to 17 years in prison and lifetime supervised release for conspiracy to advertise child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. A …

Rebekah Brooks, a close confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged on Tuesday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the tycoon's media empire and sent shockwaves through the British political establishment. Brooks was charged  …

Tony Blair has revealed he had once wanted to finish a speech while he was Prime Minister with ‘God bless Britain’ – until concerned aides told him ‘this is not America’. The former premier said the idea of using the rhetorical flourish that echoe …

How Rational is America? Neil Denny: There is a familiar cliché in the UK media of an overtly religious, backward-looking, anti-intellectual and anti-science America, an America under sustained attack from the forces of irrationality. ...Yet it remains a fact that …

The author spent two years as a lap dancer, working her way thru college. Now she has written a book, based on the dissertation she wrote about the industry.  A feminist view -- with equal responsibility dished out to men and women.

Now that The Pirate Bay is being blocked by ISPs in the UK, millions of people have a new interest in accessing the site, even if they didn’t before. The reasons for this are simple. Not only do people hate being told what they can and can’t do, people – espec …

Archbishop Antonio Mennini, a Vatican representative, has called onto other religious leaders to take a stand against allowing gay marriage in the United Kingdom.

The two women met for the first time last week at a sleek Georgetown hotel, where they were speakers at a glittering charity dinner. They shook hands and hugged across a vast gulf of culture, geography and faith: one a devout Muslim from West Africa with her hair carefully hidd …

Nearly 7,000 people in the United States die each year while waiting for an organ transplant. It is a number that Facebook hopes to lower with its vast network of 161 million members in this country. The company announced a plan on Tuesday morning to encourage everyone on Face …

Rupert Murdoch is "not a fit person" to exercise stewardship of a major international company, a committee of MPs has concluded, in a report highly critical of the mogul and his son James's role in the News of the World phone-hacking affair. The Commons culture, media and spor …

WASHINGTON – An Arizona man was sentenced today in Los Angeles to seven years in prison and 15 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Andr&ea …

They have been a feature of Edinburgh’s streets for 80 years, the city’s unique variation on the police box beloved by Doctor Who fans. Now, people are being given the chance to own one of 22 of the blue police boxes, which are being put on sale today by police who …

Education Secretary Michael Gove is to examine claims the Catholic Education Service (CES) broke impartiality rules on the topic of gay marriage. It emerged this week that the CES wrote to nearly 400 state-funded Roman Catholic schools inviting them to back a petition against  …

Ground-to-air missiles are to be sited on the roof of a block of flats near the Olympic site as part of a huge security operation to protect the Games. The Army will station soldiers and high-velocity surface-to-air missiles on the residential block in East London to ward off  …

Ched Evans will be remembered at Sheffield United's Bramall Lane ground this afternoon with a round of applause in the ninth minute of the televised home game, and in the 35th minute. Why, at those precise moments? Well, Evans wore the coveted number 9 shirt for United and had …

3. Museum of Soap (Saida, Lebanon) 2. The Pencil Museum (Keswick, UK) 1. Museum of Cork (Palafrugell, Spain) Your own nominations please…

In a discursive and unintelligible tantrum from Thursday's edition of "The Dana Show, Loesch apparently called Bashir "an unintelligent hack" and "a foreigner" who isn't qualified to cover U.S. politics. "I don't want to hear a foreigner talking about media in this country, or …

Here's a newspaper headline that might induce a disbelieving double take: "Christians 'More Likely to Be Leftwing' And Have Liberal Views on Immigration and Equality." Sounds too hard to believe, right? Well, it's true -- only not here in America, but in the United Kingdom.  …

Diary of a 2012 Olympic Ambassador(2): Training Day!

Recently, I had the most important training day as an Olympic Ambassador. We certainly learnt a lot on that day, especially to do with the public and our interaction with them. That was the first time I felt the excitement of the event kicking in, with so much to learn and take  …