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Self-service in the fast food restaurant is of course super convenient, generally you are quicker and you can endlessly scroll through the various food items while you are gazing at the screen. Yet it is not all rose fragrance and moonshine. A tour around several McDonald's branches in the United Kingdom shows that bacteria were present on screens in all these chains that normally only occur in the intestinal tract or faeces.

The UK economy is going to have to deal with a serious blow if the British leave the European Union without an agreement. In the blackest scenario, the gross domestic product will be almost 11 percent lower in 2034 than if the British had decided to remain a member of the union. This is shown by estimates from the British government.

There will be a little more clarity next week about whether the United Kingdom can unilaterally decide to withdraw the announced departure from the EU. The most important adviser to the European Court of Justice will give an opinion on Tuesday. The court often follows such advice.

Paul Manafort had secret talks with Julian Assange in the embassy of Ecuador. That writes the British newspaper The Guardian. The last conversation took place around the time that Manafort became head of the Trump campaign, and a few months before Wikileaks brought out hacked emails from the Democratic Party by Russia.

Paul Manafort had secret talks with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The former campaign manager of Donald Trump sought the founder of WikiLeaks according to the British newspaper The Guardian in 2013, 2015 and in the spring of 2016.

The 31-year-old British student Matthew Hedges, who was recently pardoned in the United Arab Emirates after he had been given life, has once again taken up his wife Daniela Tejada at home in England.

The 31-year-old Briton Matthew Hedges has arrived in Great Britain. He landed on Tuesday morning at London's Heathrow airport. The scientist was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Arab Emirates last week because of espionage, but got pardon on Monday.

The British Parliament will vote on the brexit deal of Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday 11 December. This is evident from the timetable for the crucial debate on the agreement with Brussels that was put on Twitter by a Business Insider reporter on Monday.

Margaret Thatcher and Stephen Hawking are the two best-known candidates to be portrayed on the newly released £ 50 British banknote.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) pardon the last week to life-long convicted British student Matthew Hedges (31). He was accused of spying by the Gulf State.

A round by the British Parliament makes it clear that at the moment there is no majority for the Brexit agreement concluded yesterday in Brussels. But in the wildly popular betting offices the chance of this is still estimated at 50/50.

A British woman had been thinking for months that somebody was rummaging through her underwear drawer. She secretly placed a security camera and got to see the shocking truth.

A precious tiara ever made for the British Countess of Portland has been stolen. Thieves broke into the British estate Welbeck in the place Worksop near Sheffield and smashed the armed glass of the coffin where the jewelery lay, according to the BBC Friday.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) are turning to a leniency request for the life-condemned Briton Matthew Hedges. This is reported by the UAE ambassador to Great Britain, who says, according to British media, that they have good hope that a 'fair solution'. can be found for the issue.

Britain thinks the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are doing everything they can to resolve the situation around Brit Matthew Hedges, who is sentenced to life, as quickly as possible. That said British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt after a conversation with his UAE colleague Thursday.

A mother who lost her son by drowning thanked Prince William. The British prince was involved in the rescue operation as a pilot of the ambulance helicopter.

In the run-up to the terrorist attack last year, the British internal intelligence service MI5 'dropped' in Manchester. 'As a result,' possibilities for preventing the attack have been lost. '

The British authorities have arrested a 48-year-old man after finding two explosives in an apartment. As far as is known, the suspect has no ties with terrorist organizations, reports the police in the British capital.

Igor Korobov, the head of the Russian military intelligence service GROe, died at the age of 62. He had been ill for some time, reports the Russian news agency TASS.

In their consultations on the Brexit agreement, British Prime Minister Theresa May and President Jean-Claude Juncker of the European Commission have made progress Wednesday, but there is still work to be done before there is a final plan. This was what May and an EU spokesperson said after the meeting in Brussels.

A British man who profited from the disastrous fire in the London Grenfell tower was sentenced to six years in prison. 38-year-old Sharife Elouahabi lied that family members were killed in the flat and managed to lay their hands on money that was meant for real victims, reports British media.

A British student who held interviews in Dubai for his thesis was sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage. British media report that.

The British Prime Minister Theresa May may shake hands in Brussels from her now EU colleagues after they have mutually stamped the negotiated Brexit agreement. May is expected at 11:00 am in the Europage building where the special Brexittop will be held. The 27 EU heads of government, including Prime Minister Mark Rutte, will start their meeting at 10 a.m.

According to British media, the British Prime Minister Theresa May should get more done at the EU than last week about the Brexit. The dissatisfaction with her Brexit policy has long been great within her own Conservative party, but her hope that there will be supporters in other parties seems to be fading.

The British government has promised to publish economic forecasts about the Brexit. It concerns a comparison of three scenarios: a British departure from the EU with the current agreement in principle on the Brexit, the abrogation of the Brexit and a British withdrawal without a deal with the EU.

London has after four years put a line under a headache file around three unusable water throwers. They had been purchased and refurbished by order of former mayor Boris Johnson, but were not allowed to be deployed. The cars are now sold as old iron.

The British police are looking for a man who hit a woman with his scooter and then ran off.

A vote of no confidence against British Prime Minister Theresa May has not yet attracted enough members of the Conservative party to be put to the vote. That was what the defunct prime minister himself said on Sunday.

The British police have arrested seventy people on Saturday at a protest in London. Demonstrators took to the streets out of dissatisfaction with the climate policy pursued by the British government. The activists also want a reduction in greenhouse gases.

The British Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed a new minister of Brexitzaken. It concerns Stephen Barclay, formerly Deputy Minister of Health. British media reports that the 46-year-old politician is known as very loyal.