British soldiers have successfully trialed a new radio frequency directed energy weapon (RFDEW) designed to take out incoming attacks involving large numbers of drones, the U.K. government has said.

Why It Matters

The world has watched on as the rapid pace of drone development quickly came to define the war in Ukraine, changing how modern militaries would fight wars going forward.

As drone technologies matures, so too do counter-drone systems and techniques designed to knock uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) from the skies.

The UK supreme court has issued a historic and definitive ruling that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer only to a biological woman and to biological sex.

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of a woman should be based on biological sex.

So as the dust settles on the ruling, what can we take away from it?

The United Kingdom’s supreme court ruled Wednesday that males who identify as women do not fall qualify as women under anti-discrimination law, a monumental decision that will have major consequences for British law.

The UK Supreme Court is to deliver its verdict on how a woman should be defined in law.

The announcement marks the culmination of a long-running legal battle between the Scottish government and a women's group.

The outcome could have far-reaching implications on how sex-based rights apply across Scotland, England and Wales.

Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom approved on Saturday plans to take emergency control of British Steel's blast furnaces.

The decision to save the steel plant in the industrial town of Scunthorpe followed an emergency parliamentary session.

Keir Starmer's government recalled lawmakers, who had been on Easter recess, to pass a law in the House of Commons which allows Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds to direct the company's board and workforce, ensure they get paid, and order the raw materials to keep the blast furnace running.

Thousands of people in the UK have been detained and questioned by police over online posts deemed threatening or offensive, The Times has reported, citing custody data.

According to figures published on Friday, officers make around 12,000 arrests annually under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988. These laws criminalize causing distress by sending messages that are “grossly offensive,” or by sharing content of an “indecent, obscene or menacing character” via electronic communications networks.

The State Department was allegedly warned about Lee Harvey Oswald's plan to assassinate John F Kennedy months before the president was killed, a new trove of top secret files about the assassination has revealed.

In a never before seen letter, which was released Tuesday evening with thousands of other unredacted documents, a man named Sergyj Czornonoh told the US British Ambassador how he warned authorities about Oswald's murder plot multiple times.

New details about Lee Harvey Oswald’s connections to the Soviet Union were revealed in a tranche of declassified documents released by the Trump administration concerning the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.

EAGLE-eyed sleuths have spotted a file missing from the declassified docs about JFK's assassination released by Donald Trump on Tuesday.

Trump released more than 2,000 PDF files in a bid to shed light on the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.