Britain

Britain will not join the Canada-led Defence Security and Resilience Bank, according to a source familiar with the matter, but the two countries said they would develop a framework for cooperation between their respective defence-funding initiatives. In a statement on...

British pension funds could have greater exposure to AI-related risks than trustees realise, Britain's pensions regulator said on Thursday, and urged them to challenge advisers on how a market downturn could affect their portfolios. In a statement the Pensions Regulator,...

Britain should have enough gas and electricity to meet peak demand this winter despite higher energy prices driven by conflict in the Middle East, the country's gas and power system operators said on Friday. National Gas and the National Energy...

British culture minister Lisa Nandy said on Thursday she was minded to intervene in Comcast's Sky deal to buy the broadcast channels and streaming service of Britain's ITV for £1.6 billion ($2.1 billion). Nandy said she had potential concerns about...

A woman who alleges British actor and comedian Russell Brand raped her more than 25 years ago told jurors on Thursday that she found him "frightening", angrily rejecting his lawyer's suggestions that they had had consensual sex. Brand, once one...

Britain's economy beat forecasts in August as a further jump in the computer programming sector offered fresh evidence that AI is boosting growth, official data showed on Thursday, handing finance minister John Healey a lift ahead of his budget. The...

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan appeared together in public on Thursday for the first time since they made a surprise return to Britain, revisiting the city where they made their maiden joint official engagement nine years ago. Harry, the...

Britain's media regulator Ofcom said on Wednesday it remained concerned about Elon Musk-owned X's handling of illegal hate and terrorism-related content despite improvements in response times, while disclosing new restrictions on the Grok AI chatbot. X met targets agreed with...

Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill, who has voted for a quarter-point interest rate hike in recent months, said on Wednesday he was more sceptical about market pricing of four increases to borrowing costs by the BoE over the...

US chipmaker Nvidia has pledged $250 million worth of computing resources to Britain over five years, to fund AI security research, bolstering the country's ambitions to become a global centre for AI governance and security. While Britain is not home...