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British Muslim convert Safiyya Shaikh is sentenced to life imprisonment for plotting to suicide bomb St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London.
2020-07-3

Jack Letts, a British-Canadian Islamic State fighter held in Syria, faces deportion from Syria to Canada instead of the United Kingdom.
2018-10-6

"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

All four members of the British indie band Viola Beach and their manager die in a road accident near Stockholm, Sweden.
2016-02-14

A Malaysian court finds a local man guilty of the murder of two British students in Borneo in 2014.
2015-03-31

Islamic State release a video purporting to be from British journalist John Cantlie as propaganda.
2014-09-18

Kidnapped British engineer Malcolm Primrose is found safe in Indonesia.
2013-06-13

Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, criticises the UK government's plans for gay marriage as a "shambles", saying they do not have a mandate to introduce the policy.
2012-12-25

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

Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish become parents after a surrogate mother from California gives birth to a son on Christmas Day. The boy is named Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John.
2010-12-28