Sources: BBC
Sheffield Crown Court in South Yorkshire, UK, sentences Thomas Birley, a British man who set fire to a hotel that housed asylum seekers in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, to nine years in prison for arson with the intent to endanger life, the longest sentence related to the riots so far. 2024-09-6
Allied Democratic Forces gunmen shoot and kill a British and South African honeymoon couple and their local tour guide at the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Western Uganda. 2023-10-18
Two British aid workers are killed during a humanitarian evacuation from Soledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. 2023-01-24
With the number of British dead expected to exceed 30, the U.K. warns its citizens about traveling to certain parts of Tunisia, including the south and near the Libyan border. 2015-06-28
Italy's highest court acquits American Amanda Knox and Italian Raffaele Sollecito of the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher. 2015-03-27
Celebrity British lawyer Amal Clooney files a case in the United Nations on behalf of former Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. 2015-03-9
British criminal Ronnie Biggs, best known for his role in the Great Train Robbery and escape from Wandsworth Prison, dies in the North London suburb of East Barnet. 2013-12-18
Veteran British broadcaster Sir David Frost β who famously interviewed former U.S. President Richard Nixon β dies on board the Queen Elizabeth of a heart attack, aged 74. 2013-08-31
A coroner finds that the death of British soul singer Amy Winehouse in July was caused by alcohol poisoning. 2011-10-26
British comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams end their partnership which led to successful television shows "Come Fly With Me" and "Little Britain". 2011-06-16