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Warm welcome with prickly touches? England braced for Mourinho

Agence France-Presse | Tuesday May 21, 2013

Having been released from his contract by Madrid, the charismatic but controversial Portuguese is now widely expected to return to Chelsea, with some British bookmakers offering odds of 20/1 on that he does so.

Britain denies bail to Abu Qatada who faces deportation

Reuters | Monday May 20, 2013

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada could be deported to Jordan to face trial on terrorism charges within weeks, a British court heard on Monday, and it ruled he should remain in jail in the meantime to prevent him from absconding.

Saurav Ghosal enters Round 2 of British Open Squash Championships

Press Trust of India | Monday May 20, 2013

In the women's category, 26th-ranked Joshna Chinappa resisted a tough challenge from Deon Saffery (48) of Wales, to emerge winner by 11-13, 11-9, 11-9, 11-5 and enter the main draw.

Google's Schmidt to meet British PM as tax row rages

Reuters | Monday May 20, 2013

Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is due to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday as a participant of an advisory group.

Gay marriage vote set to deliver Britains' Prime Minister David Cameron more problems

Agence France-Presse | Monday May 20, 2013

British Prime Minister David Cameron faces further dissent from within the ranks of his Conservative Party as a bill to legalise gay marriage returns to Parliament Monday.

Two Britons jailed for knife-point attack on Indian man's shop

Press Trust of India | Sunday May 19, 2013

Two masked British teenagers brandishing carving knives in an attempt to rob an Indian-origin shopkeeper in Leicester have been sentenced for the crime.

Britain's first 'official' astronaut set for space mission

Press Trust of India | Sunday May 19, 2013

Britain's first "official" astronaut, Major Tim Peake, has been chosen to take part in a five-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS).

Briton dies in Indonesia after drinking 'tainted alcohol'

Agence France-Presse | Saturday May 18, 2013

A British backpacker has died while trekking through the Indonesian jungle after she drank suspected tainted alcohol, police said Saturday.

Pakistani community must tackle gangs grooming and abusing young white girls: UK minister

Press Trust of India | Saturday May 18, 2013

The Pakistani community in Britain must urgently address the problem of gangs systematically grooming and abusing young white girls, British justice minister Damian Green has said.

Undercover UK officers used IDs of dead children

Associated Press | Friday May 17, 2013

A senior U.K. policeman says that British undercover officers often used the identities of dead children as aliases, confirming a recent newspaper report which first exposed the ghoulish practice.

After Google, Amazon to be grilled on UK tax presence

Friday May 17, 2013

Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. will be called back to the British parliament to clarify how its activities in the UK justify its low corporate income tax bill, two lawmakers told Reuters.

Chidambaram dons hard hat, visits Crossrail project in London

Press Trust of India | Friday May 17, 2013

Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday donned a hard hat as he visited a construction site of the new Crossrail project in east London along with his British counterpart George Osborne.

UK lawmakers challenge Google's 'smoke and mirrors' on tax

Thursday May 16, 2013

Google Inc faced angry questions on Thursday from British lawmakers investigating its tax affairs and whether it had misled parliament in testimony last year, adding fuel to a debate on taxation that has risen to the top of the UK political agenda.

UK politician sues for defamation in high-profile Twitter case

Reuters | Thursday May 16, 2013

A retired British politician sued the wife of the House of Commons Speaker for defamation on Thursday, accusing her of implying in a tweet that he was a paedophile guilty of sexually abusing boys living in a care home.

Fresh anger over Amazon's UK tax bill

Agence France-Presse | Thursday May 16, 2013

Amazon used a subsidiary registered in Luxembourg to limit its British corporation tax bill.