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European Super League collapses after 6 English clubs withdraw

The Super League collapsed before a ball was kicked in the European breakaway competition after being abandoned by the six English clubs, leaving the Spanish and Italian participants stranded.

Like Britain, New Zealand to consolidate healthcare into national service

New Zealand announced Wednesday it will consolidate its fragmented healthcare system into a national service similar to the one revered by many in Britain

British lawmakers to use legislative power to prevent European Super League

Lawmakers in Britain's House of Commons were told the government will use its legislative powers to block controversial plans for a breakaway European Super League.

Britain considering 'range of options' to prevent European Super League

The British government is considering a range of options to prevent the European Super League from going ahead, a spokesperson for the prime minister has confirmed.

UK, Hong Kong ban travel from India over new Covid-19 variant concerns

Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed the move in the House of Commons

An ode to life (and Rina)

Rina lived in London for 50 years and died last week in a local hospital.

Heights of nationalism

Book review of The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans and the Nazis and the Race to Summit the Himalayas

Britain offers all over-50s first Covid shots, Moderna rollout begins

Britain has offered shots to high-priority groups; PM Boris Johnson aims to offer all adults a shot by July-end

A superpower's long decline

Book review of THE AGE OF DECADENCE: A History of Britain, 1880 to 1914

UK unveils package to support Hong Kong families escaping draconian law

The UK government has launched a 43 million pound package to help the new arrivals from Hong Kong with housing, education and employment

Italy, Britain still recommend AstraZeneca vaccine but suggest age limits

British say benefits outweigh risks for vast majority. Most cases of blood clots found in women under 60, EMA says

Britain registers another 4,052 coronavirus cases, 43 deaths: Govt

Another 4,052 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 4,345,788, according to official figures released Wednesday

Britain's economy grew more than thought at end of miserable 2020

UK's Covid-hit economy grew more quickly than previously thought in the final three months of last year but still shrank by the most in more than three centuries in 2020 as a whole

Building back worse

The UK urgently needs a dynamic, entrepreneurial mission-setting state to confront the triple crisis of Covid-19, rising inequality, and climate change

Climate change to put UK's farming, dairy sector under massive stress

The UK's two important farming sectors, dairy and potato growing, will be badly hit by climate change over the next 30 to 50 years, the country's national weather service the Met Office has warned

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson gets his first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine

Johnson, 56, received his vaccine at the same hospital where almost a year ago he was put in an intensive care unit and given oxygen via a tube in his nose after he contracted the virus

Britain to slow coronavirus vaccine rollout due to supply crunch in India

Britain will have to slow its vaccine rollout next month due to a supply crunch caused by a delay in a shipment of AstraZeneca shots from India and the need to test the stability of 1.7 million doses

Britain's NatWest bank faces money laundering charges, rise in costs

The action is the first such case against a British bank under a 2007 money laundering law

India to take up with UK racism issues when required: Jaishankar

India will take up with the UK when required the alleged incidents of racism in Britain, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday

UK coronavirus update: Another 5,534 Covid cases, 121 deaths reported

Another 5,534 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, taking the total count of coronavirus cases in the country to 4,253,820, according to official figures released Saturday.