Topline President Joe Biden, members of Britain’s royal family, world leaders and state dignitaries arrived at Westminster Abbey in London on Monday morning to attend the state funeral service of Quee...
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King Charles III Undertakes First Royal Duties After Queen Elizabeth II’s Death—Here’s What To Watch For In The Coming Days
Topline As tributes flood in from around the world lauding the late Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III prepares to address the nation as sovereign for the very first time on Friday after traveling t...
Elizabeth II Wasn’t Just The World’s Longest-Reigning Queen—Here Are The Other Big Records She Broke
Topline Queen Elizabeth II was Britain’s longest-serving monarch when she died at the age of 96 on Thursday, acquiring and inspiring a number of other world records during her unprecedented 70-year re...
Britain Mourns Death Of Queen Elizabeth After 70-Year Reign
Topline The United Kingdom—and many of Queen Elizabeth II’s admirers around the world—entered a period of mourning Thursday following her death at age 96, ending the longest reign of any monarch...
Europe’s Energy Crisis Threatens To Decimate Disposal Incomes And Car Sales
Flaming gas burners on household kitchen stove with an exchange graph of the growth in the cost of … [+] natural gas prices getty European disposal income could be trashed by a massive increase ...
Pound Plunges to Decades Low as Strikes Ravage Britain – Trustnodes
The pound has fallen to its lowest level since 1985 against the dollar, down to $1.15 per GBP, lower than the $1.19 it reached following the Brexit vote in 2016. A general strengthening of the dollar ...
Chaos in corporate Britain as wages crash despite record job vacancies
Commuters walk along the Thames Path beside the River Thames in London – Jason Alden/Bloomberg It is meant to be a fundamental economic rule that when unemployment falls, wages rise. Companies h...
U.K. Records Its Hottest Temperature Ever Amid Extreme Heatwave
Topline The U.K. recorded its hottest ever temperature on Tuesday, according to provisional Met Office figures, as the country faces a second day of extreme heat amid warnings of wildfires and reports...
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Fights For Survival After Wave Of Government Resignations
Topline British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is fighting to stay in power on Wednesday after two senior ministers abruptly resigned and said they had lost faith in his leadership after the latest in a...
A Universal Battery-Hydrogen Delivery Truck Out Of London
Tevva hydrogen electric truck, class 5-8, ACT Expo 2022 david blekhman via forbes Tevva, a UK based advanced clean vehicle developer and manufacturer, is launching production of its first 7.5-tonne hy...
Boris Government Chips Away At Free Trade
WATFORD, ENGLAND – DECEMBER 04: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives a press conference at … [+] the NATO summit at the Grove hotel on December 4, 2019 in Watford, England. F...
Why is China’s inflation rate low compared to the US, Europe and Britain?
China’s benign inflation readings are in marked contrast to many advanced economies, giving the country space for more monetary loosening while the United States, the European Union and Britain ...
Britain Eyes Becoming a Crypto Hub, Upgrading the Market by Adopting DLT
In pursuit of becoming a global crypto hub, the United Kingdom seeks to revamp the traditional financial market using distributed ledger technology (DLT), according to the finance ministry, as reporte...
Britain Is Making Moves Toward Becoming Global Crypto Hub, Plans to Implement Blockchain into Traditional Markets
Gamza Khanzadaev Britain takes further steps and plans to deploy blockchain to TradFi The United Kingdom will start testing blockchain technology in traditional finance operations, like stocks trading...
A Tale Of Four Empires
What did Britain, France and Spain get right, and why has Russia failed? Russian soldiers march through Red Square in Moscow. MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images The British, French and Spanish empire...
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson Survives Confidence Vote After ‘Partygate’ Scandal
Topline U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a vote of confidence on Monday triggered by lawmakers in his own Conservative party amid widespread anger over a series of lawbreaking parties in Dow...
Britain urges people with monkeypox to abstain from sex as cases rise
Test tubes labelled “Monkeypox virus positive and negative” are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters U.K. health authorities have urged anyone who tests posi...
Burberry, Harrods And Other Luxury Players Call For Return Of Tax-Free Shopping As U.K. Loses Out To Europe
Union flags hanging high above Regent Street in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s upcoming … [+] Platinum Jubilee. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images) In Pictures via Getty...
Electric Car Revolution Needs Honest Data To Avoid Consumer Backlash
Audi e-tron GT – promises 298 miles, delivers between 205 and 210 miles (Photo by Manfred … [+] Schmid/Getty Images) Getty Images The electric car revolution needs to woo buyers on average...
Russia Just Threatened To Destroy Ireland And Britain With A Nuclear Tsunami
This photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, Feb. … [+] 19, 2022, shows a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile being launched from an air fi...
Britain, Australia Join Pentagon To Monitor Russia’s Possible Use Of Chemical Weapons In Ukraine
Topline Officials in Washington and London are investigating the possible use of chemical weapons by the Russian military in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Monday, after Ukrainian forces i...
Britain eyes nuclear, wind, fossil fuels in bid for energy security
Alongside a ramp up in nuclear power, the British Energy Security Strategy envisages up to 50 GW of offshore wind and 10 GW of hydrogen – half of which would be so-called green hydrogen – by 2030. Chr...
Britain to Announce New Crypto Regulatory Regime in Near Future
Alex Dovbnya British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to announce crypto regulations in the coming weeks According to a recent report published by CNBC, the U.K. government is preparing to unv...
South Korea, Britain, Bulgaria to Join Forces to Combat Crypto Tax Dodgers (Report)
South Korea’s National Tax Agency’s chairman Kim Dae-Ji held a meeting this week with tax executives from Bulgaria and Britain to discuss the “rise of tax-dodging schemes” through the use of digital ...
Britain to reveal stablecoin regulation plans, sources say
A visual representation of Bitcoin. Edward Smith | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K. government will soon reveal plans to regulate the cryptocurrency market, focusing on a fast-growing type of token know...
Britain resurfaces huge tidal energy plan amid Ukraine crisis
An aerial shot of the Severn Estuary from 2010. Jamie Cooper | Sspl | Getty Images An independent commission in the U.K. is to revisit the possibility of using the Severn Estuary, a large body of wate...
Britain impounds private jet with suspected links to Russian oligarch
Aerial photograph of the Norman Foster Hangars at Farnborough Airport, formerly known as the Royal Aircraft Establishment. David Goddard | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K. said on We...
A Visit To The “Poshest Shop In Britain” As Daylesford Organic Celebrates Two Decades Of Premium Retail
Fresh produce on display at Daylesford Organic. While critics call it pricey, loyal customers can … [+] not get enough. The retailer celebrates the twenty year anniversary of its Cotswolds Farms...
Britain To Ban Crypto Investment Marketing
Britain is cracking down on crypto advertisements. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said they would be limiting marketing for high-risk crypto investments. The move came after a boom in crypto ad...