BETAUnited Kingdom 
Major fire guts Shoreditch block
18 hours agoMore than 100 firefighters tackle a major fire at a restaurant and office block in central London.
High-speed rail line plan awaited
23 hours agoPlans for a new high-speed rail line between London and Birmingham are to be published by the government later.
UK PM Brown warns of bumpy economic road ahead
43 hours agoLONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sees risks to the economic recovery and says it is not the moment to change course as he prepares for an election by June.
UK's Miliband urges push for Afghan peace deal
46 hours agoLONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taliban insurgents and said Afghanistan's neighbors must support such an agreement.
U.S. kept Britain in dark over torture: ex spy chief
2 days agoLONDON (Reuters) - The United States deliberately kept Britain in the dark about the harsh methods it used when interrogating suspected terrorists, the former head of Britain's domestic spy agency said on Tuesday.