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Police arrest a man in connection with an alleged assault on former X Factor winner Leona Lewis at a book signing in London.

Britain is ready to raise troop numbers in Afghanistan by 500 to 9,500, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday, providing certain conditions are met.

A City banker is found guilty of killing his unfaithful wife at their north London home.

Nearly 40 years after breaking up, The Beatles are still breaking records for album sales.Consumers in North America, Japan and the U.K. bought more than 2.25 million copies of the Beatles' re-mastered albums in the first five days after their Sept. 9 release.

Britain agreed to include Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in a prisoner transfer deal with Libya because of "overwhelming interests" before an oil deal was sealed, a newspaper reported.

A five-year-old boy from Wiltshire dies in hospital after being shot with an air rifle, police confirm.

Almost all British troops in Iraq are being pulled out because the agreement that allows them to be there expires on Friday, the British Ministry of Defence said Tuesday.

A guardian is appointed to look after the financial interests of Californian octuplets after their mother signs a reality TV deal.

The oldest working television in Britain has been found, and can receive digital signals with the help of a Freeview box.

The world’s oldest man, the 113-year-old World War I British veteran Henry Allingham, died Saturday after spending his final years reminding Britain about the 9 million soldiers killed during the conflict.