The British Museum will help set up the UAE's national museum through the loan of art and assistance with exhibits on falcons and the oil and pearl industries.The Zayed National Museum will receive advice on the training of its Emirati staff and the establishment of its programming from the world famous UK institution.

The United Kingdom has named career diplomat Paul Madden as British High Commissioner to Australia. He succeeds Baroness Valerie Amos who returned to the UK earlier this year to take up the position of United Nations chief of Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Control.

Some of the first-hand accounts of British Prime Minister David Cameron's visit to China last week did not come in the form of media reports or in postings on news portals, but in a microblog by the British embassy in Beijing, the The Beijing News daily reported Sunday.

LONDON ––Iran’s planned new post-modern embassy is stirring debate here, both for its design and for its location in an historic preservation area.

Descriptions and artists’ renditions show a six-story building cantilevered above and surrounding a smaller street corner structure that would be painted bright yellow.

A direct connection to the world’s oldest continuous civilization now exists at UK. The Confucius Institute was inaugurated Saturday before a full crowd at the Singletary Center for the Arts.

The goal of the Bridge to Future Success programme is to improve and strengthen capacity of selected secondary and higher education institutions to develop cultural and educational relations between the UK and Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR).

Looking at pictures of the statuesque Emir of Qatar (the emphasis is on the first vowel, by the way), and his even more statuesque wife, they seem perfectly at home in London. There’s a reason for that. His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, to give him his full title, owns large parts of it.

Britain's armed forces, diplomatic network and even the BBC World Service are all likely to face cuts in the coalition government's spending squeeze, weakening Britain's influence on the world stage.