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The UK government has clarified that sharing passwords for streaming services such as Netflix is illegal as it violates copyright laws.

Britain's economy contracted more than first thought in the third quarter of this year, putting it bottom among the Group of Seven major advanced nations ahead of what is shaping up to be a dismal 2023, data showed on Thursday.

British public borrowing unexpectedly jumped last month to hit its highest for any November on record, reflecting the mounting cost of energy subsidies, debt interest and the reversal of an increase in payroll taxes, official figures showed on Wednesday.

To borrow from Britain's Queen Elizabeth, 2022 is not a year on which the cryptocurrency world shall look back with undiluted pleasure.

UK nurses on Tuesday staged a second one-day strike amid an increasingly acrimonious fight with the government for better wages and warnings that patient safety could be jeopardised.

British regulators on Tuesday said they had fined TSB Bank ?48.7 million ($59 million) over an IT upgrade that left customers unable to access services.

The UK has been seeing a significant rise in Covid-19 cases over the last few weeks.

In Britain, the damage wrought by rampant inflation can be seen in the fate of the humble egg.

Britain's plan to send migrants to Rwanda is lawful, London's High Court ruled on Monday, in a victory for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has made a high-stakes political promise to tackle the record number of migrants arriving in small boats.

The number of billionaires in the UK witnessed a 20% jump when the rest of the country was struggling to cope with Covid-19.

A 6-year-old girl was left bedridden for days after she contracted a Strep-A infection earlier this month.

The downturn across most British businesses eased slightly this month but manufacturers struggled and the economy is still likely to contract this quarter, marking a recession, a survey showed on Friday.

A taxi driver from Kingstanding, Birmingham, has been forced to sleep in his car despite having a house in the area due to racially motivated attacks.

The UK Met Office has issued a new "risk to life" amber warning for central Scotland as the country sees a significant drop in temperatures.

A group of English villagers has declared the Russian president Vladimir Putin "Bellend of the Year."

The Bank of England raised its key interest rate by half a percentage point on Thursday and indicated that more hikes were likely, despite a looming recession, as it tries to bring down inflation that hit a 41-year high in October.

A British investigation into a trading scheme that claimed multiple tax rebates on dividend payments, said by European countries to have siphoned billions of euros from state coffers, is now focused on nine companies and three individuals, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request shows.

UK nurses stage unprecedented walkout

British electricals retailer Currys cut its full-year profit forecast on Thursday after heavy discounting by rivals in the Nordics region drove it to a first-half loss, sending its shares as much as 10% lower.

British inflation slowed more than expected in November but remained near the highest level in more than 40 years, official data showed Wednesday, as a cost-of-living crisis sparks fresh UK strikes.

Britain's jobless rate rose for a second month and there were other signs in data on Tuesday that some of the inflationary heat in the labour market is cooling as the economy stumbles, including an increase in older people looking for work.