China has agreed to allow British citizens to travel to the country for up to 30 days without a visa, Downing Street has said. The announcement came after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer met President Xi Jinping in Beijing, as he became the first British leader to visit the country in eight years.

The British government plans to unveil a new national police force, dubbed the "British FBI," to handle complex investigations like counterterrorism and fraud

Britain’s Conservative Party, which governed the country from 2010 until it suffered its worst-ever electoral defeat two years ago, was plunged into fresh turmoil Thursday after its leader sacked the man widely seen as her greatest rival for apparently plotting to defect from the party.

Moscow has accused the unidentified man of being an undercover spy working at the British embassy in the Russian capital.

LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Britain's government said on Saturday it will create a new National Police Service, described as a "British FBI", to modernise policing and deal with terrorism, fraud, organised crime and other complex criminal activity.