In Nepal, Britain’s Minister of State for international Development , Alan Duncan arrived today on a three day official visit. On his arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu , Mr. Duncan expressed his hope that his Nepal visit would be successful in reviewing the assistance being provided by his government to Nepal in the sector of poverty alleviation and in finalizing future strategy on it also.

During his stay in Nepal, Mr Duncan is scheduled to hold separate meetings with the top leaders of parties and the representatives of British organizations supporting the development projects. He said that during his political meetings here he would urge the political leaders to reach to a consensus as early as possible. This is the third visit of the British Minister to Nepal in the past two years.

Britain's heir to the throne Prince Charles has overtaken his son William as the people's preferred successor to Queen Elizabeth II in the wake of her diamond jubilee, a poll suggested on Sunday.

YouGov's poll for The Sunday Times newspaper found that 44 per cent of respondents want Charles to succeed his mother, with 38 per cent opting for William.

The figures have been exactly reversed since a poll two weeks ago, suggesting Britons were impressed by how Charles stood in for his ill father Prince Philip at last weekend's festivities marking the queen's 60-year reign.

Britain’s Supreme Court upholds verdict to extradite Wikileak founder Julian Assange to Sweden.

Assange is best known for revealing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. documents, including a hard-to-watch video that captured U.S. forces gunning down a crowd of Iraqi civilians and journalists that they’d mistaken for insurgents.

His release of a quarter-million classified State Department cables outraged Washington and destabilized American diplomacy worldwide.

Assange’s appeal before the Supreme Court had little to do either with WikiLeaks or with the Swedish sex case itself. His lawyers were seeking to quash his warrant on the ground that it was improperly issued by a prosecutor, not a judge.

The Swedish government argued that’s the way the system works in Sweden, as in many other European countries.

Scientists in Britain say they are a step closer to developing a blood test to identify whether a woman is likely to have breast cancer in later life. Researchers at Imperial College, London identified a strong link between the cancer and molecular changes in white blood cell genes.

The British Prime Minister has arrived in Tokyo, Japan, on the first leg of his visit to East Asia. The visit is aimed at encouraging trade deals with Britain. Mr Cameron may agree to a new defence deal with Japan which would see both countries develop weapons together for the first time. 

Several Indian professionals will be adversely affected by Britain's new immigration rules that come into effect on Friday. The rules are part of the David Cameron government's efforts to reduce migration from non-European Union countries.

The new immigration regime includes tighter rules for students, limits on skilled professionals and new restrictions on the settlement of migrants who are already in Britain.