Sources: BBC
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
A British man working at the British embassy in Berlin is arrested by German police on suspicion of spying for Russia. 2021-08-11
Matthew Hedges, a British academic student studying at Durham University, is sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Arab Emirates after being convicted of spying. 2018-11-21
The Nobel Committee awards Swiss Jacques Dubochet, German Joachim Frank, and British Richard Henderson the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structural determination of biomolecules in a solution. 2017-10-4
Egyptologists announce that radar scans indicate an empty space behind King Tutankhamun's tomb. British archaeologist Dr. Nicholas Reeves speculates if a second chamber exists, it could be Queen Nefertiti's long-lost burial place. Antiquities Minister Mamdouh Eldamaty says work inside the tomb will not begin until all the data from the radar and infrared devices are carefully analyzed by Japanese experts. 2015-11-28
British actor Eddie Redmayne wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything". 2015-02-22
Two former British foreign secretaries, Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind become embroiled in a "cash for access" scandal. The two deny any wrongdoing and refer themselves to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Hudson. 2015-02-22
Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation and British satellite firm Inmarsat release the raw data used to determine the estimated path of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. 2014-05-27
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
It is reported that Jennifer Mills-Westley, a British woman recently decapitated in a random attack in Tenerife, complained of harassment moments before being attacked in a supermarket. 2011-05-15