Just before the vote in the British Parliament on the Brexit deal, according to a poll, 52 percent of the population is in favor of the country remaining a member of the EU. This Sunday, the newspaper The Independent reported on the basis of its own opinion poll.
British Prime Minister Theresa May wants to postpone the vote in the House of Commons on the Brexit deal. According to the Sunday Times, May will soon travel to Brussels to bring better conditions for the United Kingdom out of the fire.
A Spanish warship has provoked the British authorities on Tuesday by entering the territorial waters of Gibraltar and letting the Spanish national anthem blow through the speakers on deck. A small boat from the British navy escorted the Spanish frigate on its challenging trip along the rock.
The United Kingdom may unilaterally withdraw the decision to leave the EU. If London were to want that, the other 27 countries would not have to give their approval separately.
The British conservative minister for sciences Sam Gyimah gets off in protest against the Brexit agreement that Prime Minister Theresa May has signed with the EU. He is the seventh cabinet member who gives up his post out of dissatisfaction with the agreement. Gyimah announced his departure Friday in the newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
Warmer and extreme weather, linked to climate change is the greatest threat to public health on Earth in the 21st century. That's what doctors and researchers say in a report published in the British medical journal The Lancet.
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 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 woman from London who is looking for a roommate because she can not afford the rent alone, has placed an advertisement with all sorts of bizarre requirements.
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.
The new policy on scooter gangs is going well in London. There, pursuits between police officers and criminals have been much shorter since October. Agents have permission to drive the criminals.
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.
Matt Hedges knows the United Arab Emirates well. The academic born in South London grew up in Dubai, where he visited a branch of the Cranleigh boarding school. No Eton, but with annual costs of 37,000 pounds nowadays it is not much cheaper either.
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. '
London and Brussels have reached an agreement in principle on the political declaration setting out how the future relationship between the EU and the United Kingdom should look after the Brexit. That is what EU President Donald Tusk reports on Twitter.
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.
Sotheby's auction house in London thinks that two of Rembrandt's fingerprints were found on an oil painting that made the master of a young man. It seems to be printing his thumb. They were found in the original coat of paint, in a lower corner of the painting, under overcoating and varnish layers.
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.
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 first attack of the Brexiteers on the authority of Prime Minister Theresa May has been rejected. The saboteurs, as they are called by the conservative newspaper The Daily Mail, have insufficient support to start a leadership discussion.
Two prominent Kremlin critics have joined forces to prevent a Russian becoming the new head of Interpol. Former oil tale Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the American businessman Bill Browder fear that the Kremlin would use the appointment to influence the police service.
