Fresh riots in Belfast despite Clinton's plea for calm Rioting broke out in Belfast late Friday in the latest flare of violence in Northern Ireland, just hours after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the troubled British province urging peace.
09 December 2012
Tablet technology takes teaching into 21st century In September, the British School of Paris (BSP), where McCluskey teaches, became one of a handful of schools across Europe to take the plunge and decide to restructure their teaching around the technology.
07 December 2012
Murdoch matriarch devoted to charity work Dame Elisabeth Murdoch was not just a leading philanthropist but also matriarch of one of the world's most powerful families and a key confidant to son Rupert as he built his global media empire.
06 December 2012
HSBC to sell stake in China insurer Ping An for $9.4 bn Britain's HSBC said Wednesday it would sell its stake in China's second largest life insurer Ping An for $9.4 billion, as it looks to shift its focus back towards its traditional banking business.
05 December 2012
US goes gaga over Britain's royal baby-to-be News that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, aka Prince William and wife Kate, are having a baby lifted Americans' fascination with the British royal family to new heights on Tuesday.
Sender of first text message 'amazed' 20 years on The British software engineer who sent the world's first text message 20 years ago said on Monday that he is amazed at how the technology has developed.
Murdoch's British newspaper chief to leave company Rupert Murdoch's top newspaper lieutenant in Britain is to leave his post at the end of the year, it was announced Sunday, heralding the start of a major shake-up at parent company News Corporation.
03 December 2012
British newspapers back PM's opposition to press laws Britain's newspapers on Friday praised senior judge Brian Leveson's report into media ethics but warned its recommendation to introduce new laws could "suffocate the free press".
01 December 2012
BP banned from US government contracts British oil giant BP was temporarily banned from winning new US government contracts Wednesday after agreeing to plead guilty to criminal charges in the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.
Hobbit was almost filmed in Britain, director reveals "The Hobbit" director Peter Jackson on Tuesday said the low point making his Tolkien epic was when the production almost moved from his native New Zealand to Britain because of a union dispute.
27 November 2012
What's eating the sea butterfly? CO2, study says Rising acidity is eating away the shells of tiny snails, known as "sea butterflies", that live in the seas around Antarctica, leaving them vulnerable to predators and disease.
26 November 2012
800 homes flooded as Britain soaked by more heavy rain More than 800 homes in England and Wales have been flooded as heavy rain and strong winds battered the country and environmental officials warned of more downpours to come on Monday.
Press freedom makes Britain attractive: mayor of London Britain would be moving in the opposite direction to many countries if it introduced tougher regulation of the media, Mayor of London Boris Johnson has said during a visit to India.
British press hails Cameron's EU budget stance Prime Minister David Cameron secured a decent result for Britain at the European Union budget summit, Britain's newspapers said Saturday, while warning that his good fortune may not last.
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