The UK economy requires a series of fundamental structural overhauls - from giving workers more rights, to raising state investment, to empowering regulators to bust monopolies - a landmark commission on the state of the UK economy has concluded.more
Voters in Sweden handed the ruling Social Democrats their worst result in decades Sunday, while the far-right Sweden Democrats were projected to become the third-largest party in Stockholm's parliament.more
Boris Johnson and his wife, Marina Wheeler, have announced they are divorcing, news that highlights a unique tension at the heart of the former foreign secretary's career.more
Salmond was warned he is shaming Scotland amid growing pressure to quit his controversial RT television chat show. The former First Minister was urged to cut ties with Kremlin-funded channel and apologise to the family of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.more
The British weekly Economist estimates that the lack of constant support for the value of cryptocurrencies and the law regulating the operation of the virtual money market make bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies useless and mainly used for speculation.more
We're not sure if it's gangnam style or Theresa-style but there's no stopping our dancing queen. Theresa May was spotted busting out some serious dance moves while at the UN offices in Nairobi, Kenya.more
Former Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, announced that he would be sued by the Scottish Government for how the case is being investigated in the case of the charges against him regarding sexual harassment of two women during his term in office.more
The issue of visas for Poles is a problem for the USA. It is the USA that loses the fact that Poles are not able to come to this country freely with their great ideas, capital and abilities - said the president of the president's cabinet, Krzysztof Szczerski.more
Northern Ireland has now matched Belgium's record for time without an elected government, as the political stalemate at Stormont reaches its 589th day.more
Campaigners calling for a second referendum on Brexit are attempting to bring the issue to next month's Labour Party conference, according to reports.more
Sir Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat leader, will signal next month that he plans to stand down before the next general election - clearing the way for a successor who is not an MP.brexmore
United States Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran unsuccessfully for US president in 2008 and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday, his office said. He was 81.more
The UK government will begin advising people, businesses, and other groups about how to plan for the possibility of leaving the EU without a deal. Ministers say publication of the first batch of 25 documents will tackle what they call "hair-raising scare stories" about a no-deal Brexit.more
