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President Biden is urging more Americans to get a COVID booster shot, even as research suggests the new vaccines might not be any better than the old ones.

Britain's currency weakened to a record low against the U.S. dollar, while government borrowing costs shot up. This happened after the new conservative government announced new economic proposals.

The British pound sank to $1.03, before stabilizing slightly, as traders and investors react negatively to new government plans to cut taxes for highest earners and businesses and boosting borrowing.

Britain's Conservative Party announced that Foreign Minister Liz Truss will serve as the nation's next prime minister. She has a lot of work to do in these troubling political and economic times.

Johnson might try to stay on as caretaker prime minister for a few months until a new leader is selected. Johnson has faced mounting pressure to step down in the face of multiple political scandals.

Britain's Prince Andrew has settled out of court with Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexual assault on three occasions when she was 17 years old.

The first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, announced that her relatively autonomous government in Scotland would pursue a second referendum on full Scottish independence.

A heat wave that's been affecting Europe has caused dangerous infrastructure damage in Britain. The country's transportation sector has seen the worst of it.

The British government says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to the U.S. to face spying charges.

The intervention came from the European Court of Human Rights, which said the British plan had a chance of causing "irreversible harm."