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Prime Minister David Cameron backed Jordan’s Prince Ali bin Al Hussein’s candidacy to be the next president of world football’s scandal-hit governing body FIFA, the British leader’s spokesman said on Thursday. “The FA (English Football Association), and we are squarely

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Thursday there was something deeply wrong at the heart of world football’s governing body FIFA and that it needed to be reformed. Speaking a day after the game was plunged into turmoil following

The Irish vote to allow same-sex marriage was a “defeat for humanity”, a senior Vatican official has said in the first high-level reaction from the Holy See to last week’s landmark referendum. “Not a defeat for Christian principles, it was

Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government failed to pass a social welfare bill on Tuesday that several senior figures have said could lead to the collapse of the regional assembly in the British-controlled province. A deal struck between the Northern Ireland parties

Britain’s new Conservative government will have a fight on its hands when it tries to get legislation on an EU membership referendum and on human rights through parliament’s House of Lords, where it is in a minority. The Conservatives unexpectedly

British Prime Minister David Cameron told the president of the European Commission that the country needed a new deal on Europe, before he presses his case for reforms to the bloc with other national leaders this week. Talks between Cameron

Northern Ireland‘s First Minister Peter Robinson was recovering after an emergency operation on Monday, the hospital treating him said, with local media reporting that he had suffered a suspected heart attack. Robinson’s British nationalist Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leads a

Ireland appears to have voted heavily in favour of allowing same-sex marriage in a historic referendum that marks a dramatic social shift in the traditionally Catholic country, government ministers and opponents of the bill said on Saturday. Final results are

British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday he was confident of winning concessions from European Union leaders before he asks voters whether Britain should stay in the bloc. After his Conservative Party won an unexpected majority in a May

A senior EU official said he did not expect unusually tough talks on Friday with David Cameron, who has brought his demands for reform of the bloc to a summit in Riga – because, he said, talking to the British

Standing guard at his frontline post, Libyan soldier Mohammed Abu Shager can see where Islamic State militants are holed up with their heavy weaponry less than a kilometer away. The militants have effectively taken over former dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s home

Prince Charles spoke on Wednesday of the murder of his great uncle Lord Mountbatten in Ireland 36 years ago and called him “the grandfather I never had.” Speaking ahead of his first visit to the site where the Irish Republican

Britain’s annual rate of consumer price inflation fell below zero for the first time since the 1960s, official figures showed on Tuesday, pushed down by lower travel costs due to an early Easter. The Office for National Statistics said consumer

A British nurse who said he had “a devil” inside him, was found guilty on Monday of murdering two of his patients and poisoning about 20 others during what police called a reign of terror at a hospital in northern

Prince Harry called for the return of national service in the country, crediting a military career for helping to keep himself and the soldiers he commanded on the right track. Harry, 30, fifth in line to the throne, told The

British Chancellor George Osborne, fresh from his Conservative Party’s election victory on May 7, said he would spell out on July 8 how he plans to make further big cuts to public spending and boost the country’s growth prospects. “I

British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday a second Scottish independence referendum was “not remotely on the cards”, but he would consider nationalist demands for greater powers to be devolved from London to Scotland. Cameron was speaking after meeting

Facebook tramples on European privacy laws by tracking people online without their consent and dodges questions from national regulators, Belgium’s privacy watchdog said on Friday. Belgium’s Privacy Protection Commission (CPVP/CBPL), which is working with German, Dutch, French and Spanish counterparts,

Rail workers in Britain will stage a national strike later this month in a dispute over pay, the RMT union announced on Friday, teeing up a move that could bring misery to millions of commuters. The union said its 16,000

The contest to lead the defeated opposition Labour Party widened on Thursday after two senior lawmakers added their names to the slate of contenders following the party’s decisive drubbing in a national election last week. Ed Miliband, the previous leader,

Scottish nationalists cautioned British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday that he could not rule out giving Scotland another independence referendum if Scots voted for one in a parliamentary election. On Sunday, Cameron ruled out another independence referendum despite spectacular

British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday that renegotiating Britain’s relationship with the European Union would be tough but that his decisive election victory last week had given him a mandate. “We have got a mandate, it will be

Prince Harry, one of the world’s most eligible bachelors, said on Monday he would love to have children but he is still waiting to find the right person to “share the pressure”. Harry, 30, slipped to fifth in line to