AFP - Gordon Brown was widely hailed as Britain's prime minister in waiting by the British press after delivering his 10th annual budget, with the incumbent Tony Blair looking increasingly stale.

AP - A member of a gang of al-Qaida-linked terrorists plotting attacks on Britain tried to buy a radioactive "dirty bomb," a prosecutor told jurors hearing terrorism charges against seven men Wednesday.

AP - British Treasury chief Gordon Brown said the country's economy is growing, with inflation on target, as he presented his 10th annual budget Wednesday.

AP - Britain's highest court ruled Wednesday that a school acted properly in refusing to allow a student to wear Muslim clothing of her choice rather than the attire permitted under school policy.

AP - U.N. Security Council members sought to break a deadlock over Iran's suspect nuclear program Wednesday after Britain and France could not get Russia and China to agree on how to pressure Tehran to stop enriching uranium, diplomats said.

Reuters - First it was banned by Britain for its use of the word "bloody" and now Canada has vetoed a scene in a controversial Australian tourism campaign where a character lures visitors by saying "We've poured you a beer!"

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter London, England (AHN) - The United Kingdom begins the largest anti-terrorism trial since the September 11 attacks on the U.S. Reuters reports that seven of its citizens are charged with plotting bomb attacks to protest the government's...

AFP - Seven British men went on trial on charges they were part of an Islamist militant-inspired plot to set off explosives in Britain with help from accomplices in Pakistan and Canada.

AFP - Britain's Prince Charles condemned the violence sparked by the Prophet Mohammed cartoons and appealed to religious leaders to foster common values in a speech at a renowned Cairo university.

Reuters - Seven Britons went on trial on Tuesday charged with plotting to carry out bomb attacks on Britain in the country's biggest anti-terrorism court case since the September 11 attacks on the United States.

AFP - A 50-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in jail after he admitted sending hoax letters more than 25 years ago to detectives hunting one of Britain's most notorious serial killers.

Seven men accused of planning a terror campaign in Britain go on trial at the Old Bailey.

AFP - Kingfisher, the biggest European home-improvements retailer, said that its annual net profit fell by almost 70.0 percent, owing to an extremely weak performance in Britain.

AFP - Kingfisher, the biggest European home-improvements retailer, said that its annual net profit fell by almost 70 percent, owing to an extremely weak performance in Britain.

AFP - Top officials from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States wrapped up more than four hours of talks on the Iranian nuclear crisis here but failed to agree on a clear strategy to coax Tehran into foregoing nuclear arms.

AP - Britain has suggested imposing U.N. sanctions on Iran unless it allays suspicions about its nuclear program, but Russia and China remained at odds with Europe and the United States Monday night on the best way to confront Tehran.

AFP - Tesco, Britain's biggest supermarket chain, and Indian telecom giant Bharti Enterprises are in talks to set up a possible grocery chain together in India, a British newspaper said.

AP - Britain is calling for new talks with Iran about its suspect nuclear program but will push for militarily enforceable U.N. Security Council sanctions if those talks do not make progress, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.

Reuters - Iran will stand by its right to obtain nuclear technology and anyone spreading propaganda against its atomic program will come to regret it, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday.

AP - Britain plans to call for new talks with Iran about its suspect nuclear program at Monday's high-level diplomatic meeting outside the U.N. Security Council, diplomats said.