Britain

Johnson's attempts to navigate Britain through a health disaster are being complicated by the cross-country travels of his top aide Dominic Cummings.

The zoo owners claim that due to shortage of funds they may have to re-home or euthanise the resident animals.

Under the notifications system, someone exposed to a person who tests positive for COVID-19 will receive an alert on their phone.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged public frustration with the restrictions imposed to fight the virus.

Ten staff in Britain and four in Australia will be furloughed, in a move that is expected to become permanent.

The partial lifting of restrictions comes despite concern over Britain's death toll from the virus -- the second highest in the world.

The nation's second-quarter contraction is meanwhile expected to be far steeper than the first.

Britain has seen more than 32,000 deaths in the outbreak.

Anthony Fauci's words raised concerns that even a cautious exit from the unprecedented global economic shutdown could trigger another outbreak.

Britain and European Union will begin the next level of post-Brexit trade talks on Monday that will be followed by videoconferences throughout the week.

It said Prime Minister Boris Johnson would announce the measures on Sunday.

The UK's number of confirmed cases rose by 6,032 to 171,253 on Thursday.

Downing Street announced Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds were blessed with a baby boy.

The Duke of Sussex praised Captain Tom Moore, 99, who has raised £23 million for the NHS.

The OBR warned that the impact of the pandemic could initially be a bigger shock to the UK economy than the 2008 financial crisis and even the world wars.

More than 5,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Britain, fewer than in Spain, Italy and France.

Coronavirus has claimed thousands of lives, with Spain and Britain seeing the highest number of daily fatalities yet.

UK ministers have been put on the back foot as criticism over the lack of testing grows.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday imposed a three-week lockdown to tackle the outbreak, which has seen 422 deaths and 8,077 cases in Britain.

As Britain joined other nations in imposing strict stay-at-home orders, the number of virus deaths worldwide surged past 16,500.

As the outbreak spreads and the death toll reached 104, up from 71 in a day, Boris Johnson said schools would be closed indefinitely later this week.

Bailey steps up from his role as head of the UK's financial regulator where he faced strong criticism over his role overseeing investment scandals in Britain.

Trump's travel suspension will not affect travellers from the UK.

Finance minister Rishi Sunak will present the budget in parliament around 1230 GMT.

The talks take place just over a month since Britain ceased to be an EU member, and are meant to wrap up by the end of this year

Michel Barnier warned the bloc would not abandon its principles to get a deal and took aim at a British minister as tensions between the two sides ramped up.

The text, setting out the European Union's demands and red lines, is to be formally adopted Tuesday at a meeting of the bloc's ministers.

A ruling against Assange could see him jailed for 175 years if convicted on all 17 US Espionage Act charges and one count of computer hacking.

The drawn-out tussle for money is a Brussels ritual, but is especially problematic this time around because of Britain's departure from the EU.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the eve of the summit predicted "very tough and difficult negotiations" around the table.