A coroner overseeing a British inquest into the poisoning of a former Russian security agent ruled that he had to exclude evidence on whether the Russian state was involved in the killing.

The search company’s executive chairman is part of a group of business executives advising Prime Minister David Cameron on economic issues.

A British legislator has bruised male pride by suggesting that a harsh economic climate has contributed to creating a brutalized macho culture among the nation’s men. Is she right?

Prime Minister David Cameron played down the vote by lawmakers in London on a resolution criticizing his handling of the crisis over whether Britain should leave the European Union.

After years of warnings, the central bank governor, Mervyn A. King, said a recovery was “in sight.” Unemployment, however, rose in the first quarter.

Just as larger banks in Britain are recovering from the financial crisis, the Co-operative Bank, a smaller lender championed by lawmakers as an alternative model, is floundering.

Prime Minister David Cameron’s efforts came at a time of heightened division among lawmakers over Britain’s position within the European Union.

Scores of other countries have elaborate retirement schemes and policies that Americans could learn from to address some of the biggest pitfalls of their system.

British prosecutors say that an editor with The Sun has been charged in connection with a conspiracy to pay bribes to a press officer in the government’s tax department.

The shift toward liberal arts programs at universities in Britain and the Netherlands portends a broader reexamination of what kind of education will best prepare students for a changing world.

President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain have taken generally cautious and deliberate approaches to the Syrian conflict.

A clamor for Britain to exit the European Union appeared to be spreading even as Prime Minister David Cameron met with President Obama in Washington.

Winfried Bischoff, the chairman of the Lloyds Banking Group and a former interim chief executive of Citigroup, will step down by May 2014, the latest departure among European banks.

The idea that Britain can have its cake and eat it too is naïve. The rest of the Union might allow it access to the market, but only if Britain abided by E.U. rules. And it would not have a vote on those rules.

Having been on a continual retreat from the Continent, a broad-based humanistic education is now making a comeback at some British universities.

It has been a longstanding practice in many European countries for the police to withhold from the media the names of people who have been arrested. Britons are debating the practice.

The Group of 7 meeting also focused on banking reform and efforts to stem tax avoidance, as Europe grows tired of austerity measures.

Bombs exploded outside two police stations in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi on Friday, and Britain temporarily cut staff at its embassy in Tripoli because of security fears.

A report by the West Yorkshire police covered 68 of hundreds of sexual abuse allegations that have surfaced against the former television presenter Jimmy Savile.

After battling Britain’s courts to avoid deportation, a militant Islamist preacher said he will fly home to Jordan if a treaty regarding torture is ratified.