Sources: BBC
British retail tycoon Philip Green's Arcadia Group collapses into administration, putting over 13,000 jobs at risk and becoming the United Kingdom's biggest corporate casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic so far. Arcadia CEO Ian Grabiner blames the pandemic for the company's demise, saying "the obstacles we encountered were far too severe". 2020-11-30
"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
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
U.S. President Barack Obama, in an op-ed in London's "Daily Telegraph", urges Britons to keep the U.K. in the European Union. Tomorrow, Obama is scheduled to have lunch with Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, who celebrated her 90th birthday today. He then will hold talks with Prime Minister David Cameron. 2016-04-21
Italy's highest court acquits American Amanda Knox and Italian Raffaele Sollecito of the murder of Briton Meredith Kercher. 2015-03-27
British actor Peter O'Toole, best known for his role in "Lawrence of Arabia", dies at the age of 81 after a long illness. 2013-12-14
British comedian Jim Davidson is arrested for alleged historic sexual assaults. 2013-01-2
Queen Elizabeth II appoints former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and British painter David Hockney to the Order of Merit. 2012-01-1
A coroner finds that the death of British soul singer Amy Winehouse in July was caused by alcohol poisoning. 2011-10-26
British artist Lucian Freud dies at his home in London following a brief illness. 2011-07-20