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

A British judge jailed two men on Tuesday for a scheme to defraud the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) of 2.3 million pounds.

Abayomi Olowo, 48, was jailed for four and a half years after being foun

There has been a doubling of cases of malaria infections detected in British Asians returning to the UK after visiting Pakistan, according to latest figures by health officials.

New figures from the

Former News International executive chairman James Murdoch began giving testimony under oath on Tuesday at the British inquiry into press standards set up after the tabloid phone-hacking row.

In the

British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that one of his prime possessions from his trip to India in July 2010 was a signed cricket bat given to his daughter Nancy by Sachin Tendulkar.

Speaking

A mosquito from Asia that spreads tropical diseases, including dengue fever, may soon hit the shores of Britain because of climate change, experts have said.

The mosquito, Aedes albopictus, has alrea

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.

Albert Einstein may be regarded as one of the world’s most important scientists but despite his innumerable professional successes, he found it hard to sustain a thriving personal life, according to a

Albert Einstein may be regarded as one of the world’s most important scientists but despite his innumerable professional successes, he found it hard to sustain a thriving personal life, according to a