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'Qaeda plots to blow up US craft'
2 July 2012 1:02 PM ISTAl-Qaeda is plotting to blow up an American airliner in the run-up to this month's London Olympics and has trained a Norwegian Muslim convert in an...
Reality bites Britain after jubilee
26 Jun 2012 5:08 PM ISTProud to be lining the banks of the Thames in their millions, despite the rain and the cold.Figures this month showed Lloyds Bank's business...
Nottingham City honours NRI
25 Jun 2012 7:04 AM ISTIn a unique honour, the Nottingham City will confer the title 'Freeman of the City' on an Indian-origin entrepreneur Professor Nathu Ram Puri, the...
‘Didn’t call Murdoch to declare war’
16 Jun 2012 2:33 PM ISTQuestioning media baron Rupert Murdoch's evidence, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday said that records released by the Cabinet Office...
UK school bans skirts
16 Jun 2012 2:28 PM ISTA British school has banned girls from wearing skirts to fight the ‘over-sexualisation’ of children.Instead, from September, students at Moulton...
UK PM answers for intimacy with Murdoch
15 Jun 2012 8:09 AM ISTBritish Premier David Cameron, under fire for his closeness to Rupert Murdoch, was on Thursday grilled at a public inquiry where he denied entering...
Rebekah Brooks gets bail
14 Jun 2012 8:04 AM ISTRebekah Brooks, the former top executive of News International and a close aide of Rupert Murdoch, and her husband were bailed on Wednesday, along...
Cameron, wife leave behind daughter in pub
12 Jun 2012 7:39 AM ISTBritish Prime Minister David Cameron mistakenly left his eight-year-old daughter behind following a lunch with family and friends at a country...
UK police warn Asians of gold theft
7 Jun 2012 8:12 AM ISTAsian families in Britain have been warned by police to beware of criminals who could target their gold jewellery during the traditional wedding...
Shoppers to shoplifters as Brits lose jobs
5 Jun 2012 8:16 AM ISTHit by job losses, a growing number of Britain's middle-class is turning to shop-lifting from upmarket stores that they earlier shopped from but can...
Millions join Queen's party
4 Jun 2012 7:43 AM ISTQueen Elizabeth II on Sunday provided a temporary lift to Britain's economic gloom by leading a 1,000- strong flotilla on River Thames as hundreds of...
UK rejects appeal on students visa
31 May 2012 6:33 AM ISTThe British government on Wednesday rejected an appeal by nearly 70 top university heads to review changes to the student visa regime that is likely...