A “chuffed to bits” President Barack Obama gushed over British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday, but deepening world crises conspired to darken a warm welcome for a special ally. Obama went out of his way to hail America’s “indispensable” relationship with Britain, even offering to learn the rules of cricket, gifting his guest a [...]

A woman will command a warship for the first time in Britain’s 500-year-old naval history, a media report said on Monday. Thirty-nine-year-old Lieutenant Commander Sarah West will take control of the Type 23 frigate HMS Portland. The vessel has 185 crewmembers, mostly male. HMS Portland boasts Harpoon and Sea Wolf missile systems and Sting-ray anti-submarine [...]

Britain’s Ministry of Defence has revived a World War II-era information campaign to warn its military personnel to be careful what they divulge on Facebook, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday. “Careless Talk Costs Lives” was a famous poster campaign launched in 1940 showing people chatting in everyday situations such as on a bus or in [...]

A leaked UK Home Office policy paper reveals that the government is planning to scrap the right of appeal for more than 80,000 relatives of British families who are refused visas to visit them each year. The report in the British Guardian newspaper has been taken up by the press in the Commonwealth countries from [...]