Sources: BBC
Australian-British academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert is freed by Iran in an apparent prisoner exchange with Australia for three Iranians. Moore-Gilbert had been arrested for espionage. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison calls her release a "miracle". 2020-11-26
Two British VICE News journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, arrested on 28 August in Diyarbakir Province in southeastern Turkey on terror charges, are released while their colleague, translator Mohammed Ismael Rasool, remains in custody. 2015-09-4
The British bank Barclays fires Chief Executive Antony Jenkins for his failure to reduce head count and the pace of cost cutting with Chairman John McFarlane to act as interim CEO until a replacement is appointed. The bank was recently convicted of earning billions through fraud as part of the LIBOR scandal 2015-07-8
The jury at Southwark Crown Court convicts British 70s glam rock star Gary Glitter on child sexual abuse charges with the prospect of life imprisonment. 2015-02-5
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office urges British nationals to leave the Libyan city of Benghazi immediately due to a "specific and imminent" threat to Westerners. 2013-01-24
The $3 million special Fundamental Physics Prize is awarded to Stephen Hawking, a British theoretical physicist. Seven scientists who led the Large Hadron Collider and discovered Higgs-like particle share another $3 million special prize which was founded by a Russian physicist and internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner. 2012-12-11
Retired British businessman Christopher Tappin is denied bail in the US state of Texas as he faces arms dealing charges. 2012-03-6
A coroner finds that the death of British soul singer Amy Winehouse in July was caused by alcohol poisoning. 2011-10-26
Two men are convicted in St John's, Antigua of the 2008 murders of British honeymoon couple Ben and Catherine Mullany. 2011-07-27