LONDON (Reuters) - British baby and maternity products retailer Mothercare posted a better-than-expected rise in full-year profit and said it was making good progress with its three-year turnaround plan. ...

Baroness Thatcher gave Britain "a backbone" and "brought back respect", the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey said.     ...

Yuichiro Miura, who is 80, says he feels "totally exhausted" as he speaks to his team after reaching the highest place on earth. ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co Ltd will recall about 841,000 vehicles worldwide including the Micra compact car, also known as the March, as a result of a steering wheel glitch, Japan's No.2 automaker said on Thursday ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's factory activity shrank for the first time in seven months in May as new orders fell, a preliminary manufacturing survey showed, entrenching fears that its economic recovery has stalled and th ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street on Wednesday, in what the government said appeared to be a terrorist attack. ...

TUNIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashe ...

The emergency response committee, Cobra, meets shortly to discuss security measures after a man is butchered in a London street. ...

A mother-of-two has been recounting how she confronted one of the alleged attackers to try to prevent more bloodshed. ...

The stress of what has happened to Moore, where a powerful tornado has flattened scores of homes, is taking its toll on residents. ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co said sales of the latest version of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone have reached 10 million since its launch in late April, making the model its fastest selling smartphone. ...

Riot police contained an English Defence League demo following the Woolwich killing, while elsewhere two mosques were attacked. ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed him for his charm and political skill as marshal of her vision of a 'green revolution' in Europe's biggest power market. A year on, Peter Altmaier finds himself spurn ...

MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - Tornado survivors thanked God, sturdy closets and luck in explaining how they lived through the colossal twister that devastated an Oklahoma town and killed 24 people, an astonishingly low tol ...

Fewer than one person in five who requires nursing home care will benefit from government reforms due to be announced today, an analysis found. ...

The National Archive reveals secret wartime plans involving assassinations, cross-dressers and even stink bombs. ...

Portraits of those lost in the storm begin to emerge as a community joins together to mourn and rebound from tragedy. ...

Fewer than one person in five who requires nursing home care will benefit from government reforms due to be announced today, an analysis found. ...

English Defence League supporters have thrown missiles at police in Woolwich after a machete attack that left one man dead. ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - European aid groups said their banks in Europe had stopped sending money to North Korea in the wake of U.S. sanctions on Pyongyang's main foreign exchange bank, leaving them scrambling for a solution ...

GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) - The UK and French governments will join a global initiative that will require oil and mining firms to comply with new disclosure measures aimed at tackling corruption, Prime Minister David Camer ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Metals swap deals with Iran by Switzerland-based commodities giants Glencore Xstrata and Trafigura could have been a way of skirting international sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear prog ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank could expand its policy toolkit if needed to battle deflation risks, a top ECB official said on Wednesday, adding that the central bank was also weighing measures to encou ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's finance minister said on Wednesday he planned to issue a long-term economic plan aimed at keeping the country on track after the strictures imposed by a bailout are removed next year. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus is helping the U.S. economy recover but the central bank needs to see further signs of traction before taking its foot off the gas, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke ...

Fewer than one person in five who requires nursing home care will benefit from government reforms due to be announced today, an analysis found. ...

Six Muslim terrorists have admitted planning to attack a rally by the far-right English Defence League with homemade bombs, guns and knives.     ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron called an emergency security meeting on Wednesday after a man was killed near an army barracks in London, and two men were shot and wounded by police. ...

David Cameron says Britain has faced terror attacks such as the one in Woolwich before and has always beathen them back. ...

Attackers asked members of the public to take pictures of them while chanting Muslim exhortations, Sky News has learned. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc's tax affairs came under renewed scrutiny in Britain on Wednesday when the leader of the opposition Labour party accused the Internet company of wrongly going to "extraordinary lengths" to a ...

A serving soldier is believed to have been killed in what police are treating as a "terror attack" in south-east London. ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland called on Wednesday for an international clampdown on multinationals shifting profits around the world to avoid tax, after criticism that Irish loopholes helped technology giant Apple to shrink ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European leaders will discuss how to combat aggressive tax avoidance by major companies such as Amazon, Google and Apple at a summit on Wednesday, and cut the estimated 1 trillion euros a year the EU ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has increased its capacity to refine uranium by installing hundreds of more centrifuges at its Natanz plant, a U.N. nuclear agency report said on Wednesday, underlining Tehran's defiance of Wester ...

Nigel Evans, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, was interviewed by senior Conservatives four years ago about an allegation of "inappropriate sexual behaviour".     ...

Taxpayers are funding state pensions for hundreds of thousands of people who live abroad and have never paid tax in this country, a minister has disclosed.     ...

Police are attending a shooting incident in Woolwich, south east London, following earlier reports of an assault, Sky sources say. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - An Irishman was charged on Wednesday over a bombing that killed four soldiers on horseback in the heart of London in 1982, one of the most high-profile attacks by IRA guerrillas in their campaign to en ...

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov ordered a dozen local reporters to be barred from covering government meetings after they staged a protest on Wednesday over attacks on journalists at a rally. ...

Two robbers who threatened shop staff with a gun and an axe before making off with goods worth £730,000 will now be sentenced. ...

The man was killed as FBI agents raided an apartment block near Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels fighting for control of the Syrian town of Qusair called for reinforcements on Wednesday to repel forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in a civil war which is spreading violence through an ...

The names of six more of the 24 people killed in the Oklahoma tornado disaster have been confirmed to Sky News. ...

The Labour leader, speaking at an event hosted by the internet giant, expresses disappointment at how it minimises tax. ...

PARIS (Reuters) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde will be questioned by a French magistrate on Thursday over her role in a 285-million-euro (242 million pounds) arbitration payment made to a supporter of former president Nic ...

Police reveal MP Eric Joyce faces charges of breach of the peace over an incident at Edinburgh Airport at the weekend. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund called on Britain's government on Wednesday to do more to speed up slow economic recovery, hinting that the country might be able to afford to borrow more to fund invest ...

Jackson's mother claims AEG failed to properly investigate Conrad Murray as the pop icon's wrongful death trial continues. ...

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Mark Bridger, who is charged with the abduction and murder of April Jones, gives evidence in his trial. ...

Cop killer Dale Cregan has pleaded guilty to the murders of father and son Mark and David Short. ...

John Downey, 61, has been arrested and charged for detonating a bomb in Hyde Park in 1982 that killed four people. ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Hundreds of youths have set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in poor immigrant suburbs in three nights of rioting in Stockholm, Sweden's worst disorder in years. ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - How many Mercedes staff does it take to sell a car? The answer, in the luxury carmaker's German showrooms, is more than it takes to shift an Audi - just part of the cost gap Daimler wants to close w ...

The High Court has overturned an order granting anonymity to a "notorious" prisoner who murdered three children in 1973. ...

SSE confirms a big rise in profits in a year it benefited from a cold winter and warns of more bill increases to come. ...

ROME (Reuters) - Millions of Italians cannot afford to heat their homes properly or eat meat as their country is racked by recession and soaring unemployment, said a report which found the number of people considered ser ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England's top policymakers remained split 6-3 against restarting its bond purchase programme for a fourth month in a row in May, amid signs that the economy is improving. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Cold weather continued to hurt British retail sales in April, driving the biggest monthly drop in a year, official data showed on Wednesday. ...