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BP plunged into a quarterly net loss of almost $16.85 billion as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged oil demand and prices, triggering huge asset writedowns, the British energy giant announced

The Lunt family from Bath, in western England, had planned to visit Spain this summer but like so many British holidaymakers have had their plans upended by the coronavirus pandemic.

Britain's Lloyds Banking Group on Thursday logged a first-half net loss after booking a vast £3.8-billion ($4.9-billion, 4.2-billion-euro) hit as coronavirus sparked a "significant deterioration" in

British bank Barclays said Wednesday that first-half net profits sank by two thirds, as it set aside £3.7 billion ($4.7 billion, 4.0 billion euros) to deal with coronavirus fallout.

The British government on Tuesday defended its decision to quarantine all travellers arriving from Spain after it was openly criticised by the Spanish prime minister.

Passengers arriving from Spain will have to self-isolate for two weeks, the UK government has said, in a move that has reportedly caught out its transport minister who is holidaying in the

 

Nearly 200 historians on Wednesday denounced what they said was the "misrepresentation of slavery and empire" in the history section of Britain's citizenship test, calling for it to be corrected.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday following London's diplomatically fraught severing of ties with China's Huawei and retaliation for

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will only impose another nationwide coronavirus lockdown as a last resort, comparing the tool to "a nuclear deterrent" in a Sunday newspaper

The number of workers on UK company payrolls slumped by 650,000 during Britain's coronavirus lockdown, official data showed Thursday, with the situation set to worsen as the government