Britain

There will now be a direct trading link between the British pound and the Chinese renminbi -- and that could be bad for the dollar.

A Chinese property developer has unveiled plans to recreate the Crystal Palace, a cast iron and glass building that burned down in the 1930s, in south London.

The British Government plans to sell off a majority stake in the world’s oldest postal service – the Royal Mail.

The British government is offering incentives to homebuyers but critics argue that the economy is recovering and they are not a good use of taxpayers' money.

Britain's coastal resorts were once the summer playground of its people with funfairs, bands and acres of sand. But the holidaymakers now head for mainland Europe.

Three-hundred-year-old resentments over a British colony play into Spain's new restrictions on Gibraltar.

Spain is punishing the British territory of Gibraltar supposedly over a row about fishing, but some British lawmakers say this is mere saber-rattling to distract attention from Spain's domestic economic problems.

The phone-hacking scandal in Britain may extend far beyond the news media to hundreds of other companies.

After a hundred years of production in the U.K., the U.S. auto giant is closing its last vehicle assembly operation in Britain.

Welfare payments account for a third of Britain's public spending. Now, radical cuts in welfare spending are drawing impassioned reactions among both critics and supporters.