LONDON (Reuters) - British electricity prices may be almost double those in Germany within three years due largely to the impact of a new tax aimed at supporting renewable power generation, a report by bank Credit Suisse showed on Wednesday. Rises in... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Russia and Britain can overcome their differences on the conflict in Syria despite some disagreements, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday after meeting President Vladimir Putin in London. "What I take from our convers... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron will press Britain's overseas tax havens to sign up to an international transparency treaty in London on Saturday, before he meets leaders of G8 economies to push for coordinated global action on t... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Britain has asked airlines worldwide to block American Edward Snowden, who leaked details of U.S. government telephone and internet surveillance programs, from boarding any plane headed for the United Kingdom, the Associated Press reporte... [Full Article]
By William James and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Pitching tougher rules on tax evasion to the G8 is a precarious undertaking for Prime Minister David Cameron. Britain's own tax havens are world leaders. Britain's list of exotic Ove... [Full Article]
By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British actor Henry Cavill will be making his grand Hollywood entrance as the latest big screen incarnation of the all-American superhero Superman, in director Zack Snyder's dark and gritty "Man of Ste... [Full Article]
By Conor Humphries ENNISKILLEN (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron is gambling that the remnants of the IRA are too weak to trouble the world's most powerful leaders when they meet five miles (8 KM) from the scene of one of the worst killin... [Full Article]
By Matt Scuffham LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will give its strongest indication yet that it is ready to return part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland to private ownership later this month, political and industry sources said... [Full Article]
By Matt Scuffham LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should hand most of its shares in Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group to the public, an influential think tank said, in what would be the country's biggest ever privatisation. The governmen... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor George Osborne will launch the early sale to the public of shares in bailed-out lender Lloyds Banking Group, the Sunday Times reported without citing sources. Shares the government owns in Royal Bank of Scotland, also re... [Full Article]