Sources: BBC
The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway impose sanctions on Israeli far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, including asset freezes and travel bans, due to their conduct during the Gaza war. 2025-06-10
The largest site of dinosaur footprints of the "Cetiosaurus" and "Megalosaurus" dating back to the Middle Jurassic Bathonian stage 166 million years ago is discovered at a quarry in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom. 2025-01-2
British authorities begin detaining migrants ahead of deportation flights to Rwanda. 2024-05-1
President Moon Jae-in receives a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in preparation for a visit to the United Kingdom to attend the G7 summit in June. 2021-03-23
Convicted British serial sex offender and paedophile Richard Huckle, who sexually abused dozens of children in Malaysia, is found stabbed to death in his cell at HM Prison Full Sutton. 2019-10-14
A 51-year-old man is stabbed to death on a train in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. 2019-01-4
Former Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are taken to a hospital in critical condition after being exposed to an unknown substance in Wiltshire, United Kingdom. Skripal was granted refugee status in the UK following a "spy swap" deal between the UK and Russia in 2010. 2018-03-5
Three people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a shooting in the town of Spalding, Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom. Lincolnshire Police have ruled out a potential link to terrorism. 2016-07-19
The UK Ministry of Defence unveils "Taranis", its new long-range unmanned plane intended to damage enemy territory. Tests are due to begin in 2011. 2010-07-12
Britain is set to ban a Muslim group, Al-Muhajiroun, also known as Islam4UK, that recently caused outrage by proposing a demonstration in the town that receives the bodies of British war dead killed abroad, the Home Office says. 2010-01-10