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One person is killed and fifteen others are rescued when the United Kingdom-flagged superyacht "Bayesian" sinks near Palermo, Italy, due to a waterspout. Six others remain missing, including British entrepreneur Mike Lynch.
2024-08-19

Meta Platforms begins introducing paid verification on Facebook and Instagram for users in the United Kingdom.
2023-05-16

British-Dutch consumer company Unilever, owner of brands including Lipton and Dove, announces that they will suspend advertising on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter for the rest of the year, saying that they have not been doing enough to counter "divisiveness and hate speech during this polarized election period in the U.S."
2020-06-26

The documents include names of individuals and companies such as that of United States businessman and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, United Kingdom monarch Elizabeth II, Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Russian-Uzbek business magnate Alisher Usmanov, the social media companies Twitter and Facebook, and pop stars Bono and Madonna.
2017-11-5

In the United Kingdom, the Royal College of Physicians reports e-cigarettes are "much safer" than tobacco smoking, and should be widely promoted as an option for smoking cessation.
2016-04-27

British scientists discover the mechanism which causes human allergy to cats, and state that a general cure for the condition could become available within five years.
2013-07-25

The Guardian obtains a copy of a document from April that reveals that the NSA is mining data using PRISM, spying on the e-mails and web activities of American citizens through direct access to Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, Yahoo, Paltalk and AOL. The Guardian's report does not state from whom they obtained the document.
2013-06-6

Retired British businessman Christopher Tappin is sentenced to 33 months in prison by a U.S. court after pleading guilty to selling weapon parts to Iran.
2013-01-9

Facebook recognises civil unions and domestic partnerships as relationship statuses in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Australia.
2011-02-18

A British man is sentenced to 18 weeks in prison for posting malicious and abusive messages on Facebook memorial sites, including the page for deceased reality TV star Jade Goody.
2010-10-29