
World - Britain
AFP - Dubai-based retail giant Landmark Group has agreed to buy British restaurant chain Carluccio's for 90.3 million pounds, the companies said on Thursday.
AFP - State-rescued lender Royal Bank of Scotland said Thursday it was cutting another 3,500 jobs, sparking anger from trade union bosses.
Time.com - In an essay exclusively adapted for TIME from his new memoir, A Journey, Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair reflects on the U.S. Presidents he has known and worked with -- and on their country
AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron backed his foreign secretary William Hague on Thursday after an aide resigned over "malicious" rumours that they had an inappropriate relationship.
AFP - Anglo-Irish energy firm Tullow Oil said Thursday it would buy a 50-percent stake in six exploration licences in Kenya and Ethiopia, expanding its reach in east Africa.
Reuters - God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
Reuters - Scotland's government announced on Thursday that its planned minimum price for alcohol would be set at 45 pence per unit, meaning a bottle of wine would cost at least 4.23 pounds ($6.52) and a bottle of whisky 12.60 pounds.
AFP - Scottish oil exploration group Cairn Energy said Thursday it had resumed operations on a rig off the coast of Greenland after Greenpeace ended a protest.
AP - Physicist Stephen Hawking says God wasn't necessary for the creation of the universe.
AFP - Home prices fell for a second month running in August when they dropped 0.9 percent compared with July, a key survey by home-loans provider Nationwide showed on Thursday.
AFP - The director general of the BBC admitted Thursday that his organisation had been guilty of a "massive bias to the left" but said "a completely different generation" of journalists now works at the broadcaster.
AFP - Labour leadership candidate David Miliband told party members Thursday that he was "ready to lead" and would "change the way we do politics," before claiming that former leaders Gordon Brown and Tony Blair's "time has passed".
AFP - The press was split Thursday over Foreign Secretary William Hague's decision to release a highly personal statement following the resignation of a male special adviser with whom he shared a hotel over "malicious" claims that they had an inappropriate relationship.
AFP - British newspapers Thursday called the memoirs of former prime minister Tony Blair a good read but said they risk re-opening old wounds in his Labour party just as it struggles to fight back from electoral defeat.
AFP - Ex-premier Tony Blair's memoirs are a good read but they risk re-opening old wounds in his Labour party just as it struggles to fight back from electoral defeat, newspapers said Thursday.
Reuters - Former British prime minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday he could have not have imagined what he called the "nightmare" that unfolded in Iraq but still did not regret joining the U.S.-led invasion.