Roger Federer was the epitome of Swiss cool as the mercury soared at Wimbledon on ‘Manic Monday’, but women’s title dreamers Jelena Jankovic and Caroline Wozniacki both made limp exits.

English commentators launched scathing attacks Monday on their football team’s dire performance against Germany which ended the country’s World Cup hopes, as calls mounted for Fabio Capello to quit.

The English flag hoisted over British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Downing Street office for the World Cup was lowered on Monday, hours after the nation’s crushing 4-1 defeat by Germany.

Rachael Faye Hill at 21 will become the youngest doctor in Britain in July, breaking the record of Indian-born Heenal Raichura who finished her degree at St.

Prince Charles seems to be on a hiring spree even as the British Queen is forced to cut back on staff and official duties in the wake of the recession.

The extradition case of Ravi Shankaran, the main accused in the naval war-room leak case who was arrested by the Met police in London on April 21, has been postponed to September 1.

The new British coalition government has been forced to water down its flagship plan to cap immigration following a revolt in the Cabinet, a media report said on Sunday. Under the terms of the temporary cap, just 24,100 workers from outside the EU will be let into the country between now and April 2011.

A farmer’s field near an ancient Roman villa excavated in Buckinghamshire has yielded a long-buried secret — it was a graveyard for prostitutes’ babies slaughtered by the Romans.

US General Stanley McChrystal issued a highly critical assessment of the war in Afghanistan just days before he was sacked by President Barack Obama, a British newspaper reported on Sunday.

French Open champion Rafael Nadal narrowly avoided an embarrassing exit at Wimbledon as he dug deep to beat Germany’s Philipp Petzschner 6-4, 4-6, 6-7 (5/7), 6-2, 6-3 in the third round on Saturday.