Labour leader Ed Miliband has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to meet British troops stationed in Helmand province.

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VIDEO: Miliband visits troops in Afghanistan

Testimony before an inquiry into the British press could throw new light on the ties between the government and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

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British Inquiry Questions Murdoch Lobbyist

A book about the death of a British officer in Afghanistan, once pulped by the Ministry of Defence, is awarded the Orwell Prize for political writing.

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Afghan war book wins Orwell Prize

Two Asian Android-based micro-PCs offer users an alternative to the British-designed project.

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Raspberry Pi’s budget challengers

Jonathan Ive – the British designer behind Apple’s iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad – is knighted at Buckingham Palace.

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Apple’s Jonathan Ive is knighted

Film director Ken Loach criticises British film censors for asking him to remove swear words from his new film in order to qualify for a 15 certificate.

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Ken Loach bemoans censors’ cuts

A soldier believed to have been killed by a British sniper in Afghanistan was accidentally shot while on active service, a coroner says.

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Soldier ‘sniper death’ accidental

How Queen Victoria and the British Empire were celebrated

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Britain’s first Diamond Jubilee

Why the US is falling in love again with British pop

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US love affair with British pop

Shelling by Syrian forces kills 34 people, according to the British-based group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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Syria town shelling ‘kills 34′

A small number of British soldiers could remain in Afghanistan after forces withdraw in 2014, a senior UK government official says.

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UK force ‘to stay in Afghanistan’

A British citizen has been arrested in Bangkok for possessing human foetuses, Thai police confirm.

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Briton in Thai ‘foetuses’ arrest

The UK agrees a £50m trade deal to sell British pork to China, the world’s biggest market for pig meat.

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UK in £50m pork deal with China

Crime on Wales’ railways has fallen by a quarter over the past year, figures from British Transport Police show.

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Railway crime falls by a quarter

Four people are arrested in a protest by the British National Party in Rochdale over a child sex grooming case.

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Arrests at BNP sex gang protest