Boris Johnson's top adviser wants to recruit "weirdos and misfits" as part of a drive to overhaul the way the U.K. government works. In a 3,000-word blog post, Dominic Cummings said he's seeking an "unusual set of people with different skills and backgrounds" to work ...

Boris Johnson will face his successor as foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, in the final Conservative Party showdown to determine who takes over from Prime Minister Theresa May. Their visions for Brexit are similar: Both want to deliver on the referendum result of 2016, both want ...

It was 5:15 a.m. when an exhausted Theresa May entered the campaign war room at Tory headquarters to face her demoralized party workers. Surrounded by discarded food wrappers, inflated blue balloons and empty bottles of beer and wine, May addressed the wreckage of a gamble ...

Jaguar Land Rover Ltd. said it intends to build electric cars in the U.K. if the government can overcome shortfalls in available energy and infrastructure investment, potentially giving Britain a manufacturing boost as it leaves the European Union. Jaguar Land Rover's expression of interest in ...

Global warming is depleting fresh water and crops, destroying coral reefs and melting the Arctic, the United Nations said Monday in a report that concludes the world is ill-prepared to face many new threats. Climate change has brought "key risks" that endanger lives and health ...

A quarter of the world's sharks and rays are probably threatened with extinction, according to the most extensive assessment of the marine species. Thresher sharks, sawfishes and angel sharks are the most threatened families, according to a study by the International Union for the Conservation ...

Ocean acidity is likely to more than double by 2100 because of fossil-fuel pollution, putting fisheries at risk and diminishing the capacity of the seas to absorb carbon-dioxide emissions, a study showed. The seas have already acidified by 26 percent since industrialization began two centuries ...

Twenty nations including Japan, Italy and Australia may be releasing more greenhouse gas pollution than they agreed to under the Kyoto Protocol. As a penalty for missing their goals under the treaty, the nations are required to buy permits for every excess ton of carbon ...