Visiting British Foreign Minister tours Sri Lanka's North

British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Minister for South Asia, Alistair arrived in Sri Lanka this morning on a two-day official visit. This is his second visit to the island.

UK welcomes UN resolution on Sri Lanka, calls to implement LLRC recommendations ASAP

The United Kingdom says it welcomes the United Nations resolution on Sri Lanka adopted at the Human Rights Council in Geneva last week. British Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne has said today

Indian couple challenges British immigration law

An Indian woman who lives in Britain and wants her husband to join her there cannot do so because a new immigration law requires him to speak English. The couple have now challenged the law in court.

UK grants £ 3 million for demining work in Sri Lanka

The visiting British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister for South Asia Alistair Burt Monday announced a contribution of £ 3 million (540 million rupees) for demining activities in Sri Lanka.

U.K. Government Paying Citizens to Slim Down, Quit Smoking

Can people be bribed into better health? The British government is increasingly convinced they can.
For decades, doctors have tried to persuade people to quit smoking, exercise more and lose weight. But with mixed success on the exhortation front and facing a rising obesity crisis, British officials are slowly abandoning the health argument and fattening peoples' wallets instead.

12 held in anti-terror swoop

A dozen men, most of them Britons of Bangladeshi origin, were arrested today in connection with an alleged plot to carry out synchonised bombings in a number of British cities.

Brit-Indian trainee pilot killed in US plane crash

Jaskinder Samra, an Indian origin British trainee pilot, was killed after a rented plane ran out of fuel mid-air and crashed in Murray County of Georgia in the United States.

British MP's wife found working as a sex worker

A British MP's wife works as a prostitute charging 70 pounds "for oral sex without a condom followed by full sex with a condom", said a media report here.

Britain removes travel restriction on Sri Lanka's North.

The British government has removed the travel restriction that had been imposed on its citizens against traveling to the Sri Lanka's Northern Province.

'Whites to be minority in Britain by 2051'

White British will become a minority in UK by 2051 due to immigration and growth in the population of settled ethnic minorities from the Indian sub-continent and other non-European Union countries, according to a new research.

Volcanic ash closes Heathrow, Gatwick airports

In a replay of last month’s travel chaos, Britain’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports as well as others in northern Britain, Scotland and Ireland have been closed until 0600 GMT Monday due to volcanic ash from Iceland, British officials said.

Brown set to lose polls

British voters have demanded that Gordon Brown goes as Labour sinks to a convincing defeat in the general election. David Cameron's Tories have turned great swathes of the country blue, and are on course to gain 100 seats.