Tag: United Kingdom

Yes Signs are displayed in Eyemouth, Scotland, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. Polls predict a very close vote in the upcoming landmark referendum on Scottish independence from Britian on September 18. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

Yes camp winning battle of ads Scotland campaign

Paul Kelbie · September 11, 2014 11:28 am

Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, points whilst speaking during a visit to a financial office in Edinburgh, Wednesday Sept. 10, 2014, where he made an impassioned plea to keep Scotland part of the union, saying he would be "heartbroken" if the United Kingdom was torn apart. (AP Photo/PA, Andrew Milligan) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

UK leader rushes to fend off Scottish independence

JILL LAWLESSPAUL KELBIE · September 10, 2014 7:01 pm

European Commission President elect Jean-Claude Juncker gestures as he addresses the media on the attribution of portfolios to the Commissioners-designate at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Britain and France secure EU’s top economic jobs

Juergen Baetz · September 10, 2014 2:19 pm

Currency question at heart of Scottish debate

Pan Pylas · September 10, 2014 2:01 pm

Business owners Gavin and Gail Jones at their shop which sells products from Scotland and England in Berwick Upon Tweed, England, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014.The British government plans to offer Scotland more financial autonomy in the coming days as polls predict a very close vote in the September 18 referendum on Scottish independence. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

As Scots eye independence, rest of UK gets nervous

MARTIN BENEDYKDANICA KIRKA · September 9, 2014 4:04 pm

Health workers spray the body of a amputee suspected of dying from the Ebola virus with disinfectant, in a busy street in Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. Food in countries hit by Ebola is getting more expensive and will become scarcer because many farmers won't be able to access fields, a U.N. food agency warned Tuesday. An Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed more than 1,500 people, and authorities have cordoned off entire towns in an effort to halt the virus' spread. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

WHO: New Ebola fears mount in Nigeria

KRISTA LARSONMARIA CHENG · September 3, 2014 6:51 pm

Brett and Naghemeh King, centre and left, leave Soto Del Real prison in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. British prosecutors are dropping the case against a couple who ended up in a Spanish jail after they tried to get treatment abroad for their son's severe brain tumor, authorities said Tuesday. Brett and Naghemeh King were pursued by police after they took 5-year-old Ashya out of a hospital in southern England against doctors' advice and traveled to Spain, where they planned to sell a property to pay for proton beam radiation therapy in the Czech Republic or the U.S. They were arrested on a British warrant on suspicion of cruelty to a person under 16 years of age, and are in custody in a jail near Madrid. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Ill UK boy’s parents freed from custody in Spain

Washington Examiner · September 2, 2014 9:14 pm

British police officers stand guard outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is expected on Monday to expand powers to combat terrorism in hopes of preventing attacks by Islamist militants returning from terror training in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK: Passports could be seized to fight terrorism

Sylvia Hui · September 2, 2014 5:30 am

This is a an undated handout file photo issued by Hampshire Police on Monday Sept. 1, 2014 of Ashya King, who has a brain tumour and was taken by his parents from hospital without the consent of his doctors. Critically-ill 5-year-old boy Ashya King driven to Spain by his parents, Brett and Naghemeh, against doctors' advice is receiving medical treatment for a brain tumor in a Spanish hospital as his parents await extradition to Britain, police said Sunday Aug. 31, 2014. Officers received a phone call late Saturday from a hotel east of Malaga advising that a vehicle fitting the description circulated by police was on its premises. Both parents were arrested and the boy, Ashya King, was taken to a hospital, a Spanish police spokesman said. (AP Photo/Hampshire Police)

Parents of ill UK boy fight extradition from Spain

DANICA KIRKAMARIA CHENG · September 1, 2014 7:36 pm

UK to propose controversial anti-terror laws

Washington Examiner · September 1, 2014 9:10 am

Scotland the Brave

Sara Lodge · September 1, 2014 4:00 am

British Prime Minister David Cameron delivers a report to the media in Downing Street, London, Friday Aug. 29, 2014. Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that UK's terror threat level is being raised from "substantial" to "severe" on Friday, meaning that a terrorist attack is considered highly likely. (AP Photo/Facundo Arrizabalaga, Pool)

Cameron promises tough action to fight militants

Danica Kirka · August 29, 2014 5:51 pm