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Britain's government may reconsider long-touted proposals for the U.K. to switch to Central European Time, a move which advocates insisted Saturday would bring lighter evenings and possibly offer the country's sluggish economy a boost.

David Cameron was warned that he faces four years of trench warfare with disgruntled backbenchers after he suffered the largest postwar rebellion on Europe as 81 Conservative MPs supported a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.

Back to the desert, and back to Britain, for the NFL. The league awarded the 2015 Super Bowl to Arizona on Tuesday and also committed to playing regular-season games in Britain through 2016 - with more than one game a year likely.

Many of the women pictured in nights out in British cities are well-qualified pillars of the community but are determined to shake-off their responsibilities by getting 'smashed'.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is interested in adding a second regular-season game in London and says the move will be discussed at the owners meetings this week.

A man is raped after being attacked while walking along a footpath in Southampton, prompting a police investigation.

Six men have been charged with terrorism offences a week after they were arrested in a police operation in Birmingham, Britain's second largest city, police said on Sunday.

A couple used a jug to make their 10-month-old daughter take solid food which eventually killed her, a court hears.

More than 1,000 McDonald's restaurants in Britain will begin displaying the calorie count of each fast food item on their menus, as part of a government-led program to fight obesity.

Almost half of UK internet users are going online via mobile phone data connections, according to the Office of National Statistics.