Sources: BBC
An Australian and a British tourist die after consuming poisoned alcohol in Vang Vieng, Laos, bringing the death toll from the incident to five. Nine others are hospitalized. 2024-11-21
Two British aid workers are killed during a humanitarian evacuation from Soledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. 2023-01-24
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, is found guilty of sex trafficking by a court in New York City. 2021-12-29
"The Sun" reports that the CIA informed UK intelligence agencies that British-born ISIL activist and recruiter Sally Jones was killed in a U.S. drone strike in June along with her 12-year-old son while they were fleeing Raqqa in Syria. 2017-10-11
A Malaysian court finds a local man guilty of the murder of two British students in Borneo in 2014. 2015-03-31
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 new inquest begins into the death of British singer Amy Winehouse after it was discovered that the original coroner was not qualified to conduct the inquiry. A second inquiry into Winehouse's death concludes that the singer died of alcohol poisoning. 2013-01-8
Twenty people including British billionaire Richard Branson and actress Kate Winslet have to be rescued after Hurricane Irene destroys Branson's mansion on Necker Island in the Caribbean Sea. 2011-08-22
Sections of the British media report that Prince Harry has been cleared to return to service in the Afghan War. 2011-06-16
TVNZ "Breakfast" broadcaster Paul Henry questions Prime Minister John Key about whether New Zealand's ethnic minority Governor-General Anand Satyanand, representative of Queen Elizabeth II, is a proper New Zealander. Henry has previously described singer Susan Boyle as "retarded" and homosexuality as "unnatural", though the state-owned broadcaster defends him, furthering the controversy. 2010-10-4