Sources: BBC
The United Kingdom announces the resumption of funding to the United Nations agency UNRWA. 2024-07-19
Viking Link, the world's longest submarine power cable, a joint venture between the United Kingdom's National Grid and Denmark's Energinet, is completed. The HVDC interconnector will supply around 1.4 million homes in the UK with electricity. 2023-09-5
Russian space agency Roscosmos says that it will not launch 36 OneWeb satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, unless OneWeb provides "legally binding guarantees" that the satellites will not be used for military purposes by the United Kingdom. 2022-03-2
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake, the strongest in the United Kingdom for ten years, occurs at Swansea. 2018-02-17
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
Tata Steel is to cut 1,050 jobs in the United Kingdom, with the majority going in South Wales. The Indian multinational steel-making company announced there will be 750 job losses at its Port Talbot Steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales while another 300 jobs will go at its plants in Corby and Hartlepool in England. 2016-01-18
U.K. transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin says Volkswagen has to start financially addressing this problem by compensating motorists with, the estimated total is £600m (US$925 million). 2015-10-30
Britain upgrades its relation with Palestine to a mission, the second-highest rank.2011-03-7
The Taliban claim that they are holding a British foreign aid worker and offer to exchange her for Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistan scientist recently jailed in the United States. 2010-09-27
The third round of leaders' debates takes place in the United Kingdom. 2010-04-29