Telegraph.co.uk
| Jan 4, 2013
The 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education has been released from a British hospital after nearly three months. Doctor say Malala Yousafzai has made excellent progress, but she will ne...
Euronews
| Jan 3, 2013
An open letter from Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner denouncing British colonialism and calling for talks on the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands met a frosty response from the British government. David Cameron says the issu...
Channel 4 News
| Dec 26, 2012
Thunderbirds are gone: Gerry Anderson, British creator of the beloved 1960s science fiction TV series, has died at the age of 83. Anderson pioneered the "supermarionation" technique for using marionettes on TV, though he moved away from puppetry l...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 25, 2012
In London, the increasingly multicultural population is marking Christmas in a number of ways. Some remember the birth of Christ, others treat it only as a holiday and time for giving presents. Many even treat it just like any other day. Al Jazeer...
Channel 4 News
| Dec 19, 2012
Relatives of 96 Liverpool soccer fans crushed to death in one of history's worst sporting disasters cheered as Britain's home secretary announced a fresh probe of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. A court overturned the original verdicts of accident...
The Wall Street Journal
| Dec 18, 2012
The Newtown tragedy is remarkably reminiscent of the one that Dunblane, Scotland, endured in 1996. The Wall Street Journal looks at how that massacre affected the public policy debate in the UK, and whether that reaction holds any clues to how an ...
IBN Live
| Dec 16, 2012
The family of Indian nurse Jacintha Saldhana have brought her body to Mangalore from London to prepare for final rites in her hometown of Shirva. The Indian government is demanding Australian and British authorities investigate the radio prank tha...
Channel 4 News
| Dec 11, 2012
WARNING: Explicit Language. Teens tell Channel 4 News the lack of sex education in schools means porn is their main source of information, and the sending of naked photos over mobile phones -- or sexting -- has become this generation's form of fli...
Channel 4 News
| Dec 10, 2012
The British government's plans for same-sex marriage are being published tomorrow. But today Culture Secretary Maria Miller was forced to the Commons to respond to MPs from the ruling Conservative party who say church weddings for gay couples will...
Channel 4 News
| Dec 8, 2012
What began with a simple prank intended to target British royal Kate Middleton has become an international debacle, after one of the victims committed suicide. Now a community mourns in India, an Australian media company is in hot water, and every...
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...Assembly for Wales in Cardiff opened in 1999, and the possibility of devolution for the English regions has also been discussed. Continue readin...
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...parts of United Kingdom were hit by snow strom particulary Scotland, northen England and Wales. The severe weather caused travel chaos and schoo...
— last Monday at 01:19 pm
...more than 95 per cent of children need to be fully immunised. In some parts of the UK, the rate is still below 80 per cent. Unlike in the United...
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom and Britain, is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean in the west and north, the North Sea in the east, the English Channel in the south and the Irish Sea in the west.
The UK's form of government is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system and its capital city is London. It consists of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The latter three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capital cities, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast respectively. Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man are Crown dependencies and are not part of the UK. The United Kingdom has fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies.
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