Europe's travel chaos has eased a bit with airlines schedule coming back on track. However, hectic negotiations still continue in some quarters to avert further workers crisis. Lufthansa, the German carrier is seeking to avert strike now with confidential pay talks with pilots.

Lufthansa strikes deal with ground staff, Europe's travel chaos eases

Soaring energy bills in Britain are giving rise to civil disobedience movement which is aimed at putting pressure on energy firms. Thousands of activists are joining the 'Don't Pay' campaign which was started by a group demanding reduction in bills to an affordable level.

Thousands join 'Don't Pay' campaign started by anonymous group in UK

Heathrow's partner Ferrovial is studying different options to sell 25 percent stake which it still holds in British Heathrow airport. According to reports, the Spanish company has held initial talks with external advisors which are about the future of its main asset in the UK, the Heathrow airport.

UK airport valued at $24.3 billion, heathrow considers stake sale

The monkeypox outbreak in the country is plateauing, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), and its rate of spread has reduced. Although the most current data indicates the outbreak's spread has slowed, Dr Meera Chand, director of clinical and emerging infections at UKHSA, warned against complacency.

UK monkeypox outbreak shows 'early signs' of plateauing, expansion has slowed

According to the latest figures, over 18,000 migrants have already crossed the UK border and the numbers are expected to rise even further in the coming months due to warm weather and calm winds at the sea.

UK government faces flak for attending to migrant crisis

UK's Horniman museum located in south London said it would return 72 artifacts to the Nigerian government including 12 brass plaques known as Benin bronzes. They were looted from Benin city by British soldiers in in 1897.

UK's Horniman Museum to return artefacts to Nigerian Government

The United Kingdom faces more hosepipe bans as another heatwave hits high temperatures and low rainfall have depleted reservoirs.

UK faces hosepipe bans as heatwave approaches

Thousands in the United Kingdom have joined 'Don't Pay' campaign started by anonymous group. The group aims to get one million people to pledge to cancelling their direct debits in a bid to force energy companies to reduce monthly bills as the cost of living crisis continues to take a toll on millions.

UK: Thousands join 'Don't Pay' campaign started by anonymous group to ignore energy bills

According to a health official in New York State, there may be hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of undiagnosed polio cases present. This comes after news broke last month that the virus had paralysed an unvaccinated man in Rockland County, New York.

US doctor warns of undiagnosed polio cases, UK to provide booster for kids under 10

Nearly 700 children have been strip-searched by London’s Metropolitan Police over a period of two years, most of them black boys, a new report has revealed. According to the figures released by the Children’s Commissioner, kids aged from 10 to 17 underwent the ‘intrusive and traumatising’ strip searches between 2018 and 2020, in which almost three out of five (58 per cent) were black, and more than 95 per cent were boys.

UK’s Met Police strip-searched 700 kids for two years, mostly black: Report

As the rising cost of living continues to bite UK, nearly thousands of people in UK have ended subscriptions of Netflix and Amazon prime

UK inflation woes: Thousands end Netflix, Amazon prime services

The race for the Tory Leadership continues to heat up. Rishi Sunak has faced a bit of of a setback as severe criticism for his past comments on urban area funding policy have been put forth.

Rishi Sunak faces setback over past comment

Bank of England has raised the interest rates by 0.5 points also known as 50 basis points. highest interest rate rise since 1997 amid looming recession.

Bank of England warns of Inflation in UK

Plants That Kill: Take a look at UK's deadliest Alnwick Poison Garden

In the race to become the next Prime Minister of UK, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have been clashing over a slew of issues. One major topic on which both the contenders have constantly debated is of the future of Britain's economy.

Sunak scores a surprise debate win over Truss

Shrinking economy, soaring inflation Bank of England sounds alarm Is the UK hurtling towards a recession?

The Full Context: Recession alarm bells ring in UK

UK records high inflation and its central bank could announce a rate high which could be the highest since 1995. The consumer price inflation in UK is currently 9.4% which is higher than BOE, England's own bank.

BOE to go for biggest rate hike since 1995, inflation to hit UK again

Former chancellor Sajid Javid has backed Liz Truss to become the next Conservative leader, calling for urgent tax cuts in an attack on her rival Rishi Sunak's economic plans.

WION Dispatch | Tory leadership race: Sajid Javid endorses Liz Truss's bid to be PM

The World Health Organisation recently released its weekly assessment of the pandemic released on Wednesday (August 3), according to which the new coronavirus cases fell by 9 per cent globally last week but the deaths remained steady.

COVID-19: WHO’s recent report states new cases fell by 9% globally, deaths remain steady

Bank of England (BoE) on Thursday (August 4) unveiled the biggest interest rate rise in 27 years and also warned that Britain will sink into a lengthy recession later this year as inflation rockets even higher.

Bank of England unveils biggest interest rate hike in 27 years, warns of lengthy recession

A 19-year-old UK woman, who was on a month-long cross-country road trip in the US along with a friend, has miraculously survived a bison attack. Mia, her friend and her friend's dog were hiking along a Custer State Park trail in South Dakota when they found themselves right in front of a bison.

UK woman gored by bison in South Dakota lives to tell her tale

British Airways suspended the sale of short-haul flight tickets departing from London’s Heathrow after the airport asked airlines to limit new bookings.

UK: Heathrow airport restricts flight departures, halts ticket sales

Nancy Pelosi, the US House Speaker, arrived in Taiwan amid an escalating crisis between the US and China. The Communist nation started conducting military drills close to the island nation.

Morning news brief: ‘Will always stand with Taiwan,’ says Pelosi, voting for UK's next PM postponed, and more

A day after New Zealand House speaker warned the lawmakers to not use the Chinese app TikTok, the speakers of the House of Commons and House of Lords in the UK have also shut down the UK parliament's TikTok account.

Speakers close UK parliament's TikTok account after Tory leaders protested app's Chinese links

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