Lifestyle

Burberry replaces creative chief Riccardo Tisci with Daniel Lee

Italian designer Riccardo Tisci will step down this week as creative director, Burberry said Wednesday, announcing his unexpected and sudden departure Tisci, who transformed and modernised the British fashion house since his arrival in 2018, is to be replaced by Briton…
EconomyPolitics

UK's new PM veers away from Biden's economic script at UN

Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss was Wednesday to outline an economic rescue programme focussed on tax cuts — even as US President Joe Biden rejected that approach as the two prepared to meet at the UN “I am sick and tired of trickle-down…
Lifestyle

King Charles mulls patronages after queen's death

The late Queen Elizabeth II was patron of numerous good causes, as is her son King Charles III, but he will now look to redistribute them among the Royal Family The queen, who will lie in state from Wednesday until her funeral Monday, was patron of 600 causes including…
Politics

Moscow expands list of UK officials banned from Russia

Moscow on Wednesday expanded a list of UK officials banned from entering Russia in a tit-for-tat response to British sanctions imposed over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that in response to…
EconomyPolitics

British MPs warn country not ready for Brexit

Britain has not yet installed all the complex IT systems and port infrastructure needed to ensure Brexit runs smoothly, a group of British MPs warned in a report released Saturday The Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union, a cross-party group of…
PoliticsPortugal

UK split over 'confusing' Portugal quarantine rules

A senior British government minister admitted Friday there was “confusion” over quarantine rules after separate UK countries announced different restrictions on travellers arriving from Portugal. From Friday, people arriving in Scotland or Wales from Portugal…
Politics

New UK quarantine rules shake up summer travel plans

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. The family-of-five, who had booked two weeks on the Balearic island of Majorca next…
PortugalSociety

PJ has new suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann

He is a man of German nationality, 43, who lived in Portugal between 1996 and 2007. Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve. The suspect is a 43-year-old German citizen with a criminal record who lived in Portugal between 1996 and…