LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's plans to limit access to taxpayer-funded legal advice and representation could undermine the rule of law, the country's most senior judge warned on Tuesday. The government hopes to save about 350 million pounds ... [Full Article]
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Syria's president harshly criticized U.S. and British aid to rebels and set harsh terms for talking to his opponents in a newspaper interview published Sunday, as fighting raged across the country. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - When the financial crisis began to spread five years ago, British coffee machine-maker Fracino raced to get ahead of it. From the firm's base in Birmingham, it carved out new markets in the Middle East, Asia and even Italy for... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has ditched a plan to use private sector money to fund the building of trains for its 16 billion pound ($24 billion)Crossrail project, putting taxpayers on the hook for an extra 650 million pounds. Crossrail, a new railway ... [Full Article]
LONDON (AP) - Sex, lies and scandal - not the usual ingredients of a parliamentary special election in Britain. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - There has been a sudden flowering of new ideas at the Bank of England over the past few days, with everything from negative interest rates to a long-term commitment to bond-buying said to be up for discussion. Could it be that a ne... [Full Article]
BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Tesco, the world's third-largest retailer, said it would buy more meat from its home market in Britain and shorten supply chains after the discovery of horsemeat in beef products shook consumer confidence in super... [Full Article]
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Britain suffered its first ever sovereign ratings downgrade from a major agency on Friday when Moody's stripped the country of its coveted top-notch triple-A rating, dealing a major blow to Chancellor George Osborne. ... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - HM Revenue and Customs on Thursday published the names of what it described as "tax cheats" for the first time, part of efforts to address public anger over tax evasion at a time of economic austerity. Tax has become a se... [Full Article]
AMRITSAR, India (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron says a giant diamond his country forced India to hand over in the colonial era that was set in the late Queen Elizabeth I's crown will not be returned. Speaking on the third and fi... [Full Article]
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