Top officials from the European Union and Britain are gathering in London on Monday to announce a freshly struck deal meant to tighten their trade and defense relationships, as the two allies pivot toward a post-Brexit future. The summit has been billed as a major reset of relations, and it is being especially closely watched…
Counterterror police are investigating a fire that broke out in the early hours of Monday morning at a north London home owned and rented out to tenants by Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer. After winning last year’s general election, Mr. Starmer moved into the prime ministerial residence at 10 Downing Street and, according to official…
The comedian and actor Russell Brand appeared before a London court on Friday on multiple charges of sexual assault, including two counts of rape. His 14-minute appearance at the court, Westminster Magistrates’, was the first, largely procedural step in what are likely to be lengthy criminal proceedings. It came a month after British prosecutors charged…
An English court on Wednesday approved the extradition of an Israeli man charged by New York prosecutors with running a “hacking-for-hire” operation that targeted environmental groups. Prosecutors say that companies run by the man, Amit Forlit, 57, earned at least $16 million by hacking more than 100 victims and stealing confidential information on behalf of…
Magicians never reveal their secrets. But sometimes, they admit they were wrong. On Thursday night in London, members of a top British magic society came together to right a three-decade-old blunder: The rejection of what they now consider one of the greatest deception acts their members ever fell for. “It was an amazing ruse —…
Britain has scaled back a high-level meeting on ending the war in Ukraine, according to European officials, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided to pull out on Tuesday. That prompted the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, to decide that he, too, would not attend, though he will meet separately with Ukraine’s foreign minister in…
The mischievous posters began appearing all over London in the past two months. On the side of an East London bus stop, one of them shows Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, emerging from a Tesla’s roof with his hand pointing upward in a straight-armed salute. “Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds,” the…
The head of an airline advocacy group warned officials at Heathrow Airport of the threat posed by potential substation failures days before a fire forced the shutdown of the airport last month, he told British lawmakers on Wednesday. “I’d actually warned Heathrow of concerns that we had with regard to the substations,” Nigel Wicking, the…
Train service between Heathrow Airport and central London was briefly disrupted on Wednesday morning because of a fire next to a track. Trains linking Paddington Station with Heathrow’s Terminal 5 may be canceled or face delays of up to 30 minutes because of the fire, National Rail said in an incident report. It did not…
The idea of getting her eldest child a smartphone had long felt inevitable, said Daisy Greenwell. But by early last year, when her daughter was 8 years old, it filled her with dread. When she talked to other parents, “everyone universally said, ‘Yes, it’s a nightmare, but you’ve got no choice,’” recalled Ms. Greenwell, 41….