Topic: Jacqui Smith

STRASBOURG, France, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- The United States may attempt to extradite a Scottish hacker who illegally accessed military computers, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

PARIS, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Led by France and Germany, the European Union is planning to create its own super-spy agency, called a "central intelligence unit," that would require its 27 member states to pool information from their intelligence agencies and in the process undermine the longstanding special relationship between Britain and the United States.

LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Senior British political officials say they will protest proposed legislation that would legalize holding terror suspects for 42 days without charges.

LONDON, July 29 (UPI) -- The British government Tuesday announced plans to develop an Internet mapping system for residents to coordinate crime data with local police.

LONDON, July 22 (UPI) -- A British court upheld a ban Tuesday that forbids a terror suspect living in England from taking school courses in biology and chemistry.

LONDON, June 18 (UPI) -- Abu Qatada, considered a top aide to Osama bin Laden, was released from a British jail under some of tightest conditions ever, court officials said.

LONDON, June 2 (UPI) -- Authorities in Britain say a mother of six who set up an anti-violence group after her son was killed has been found stabbed to death.

LONDON, May 21 (UPI) -- An Iranian homosexual facing a death sentence in Iran won an asylum appeal Wednesday in England following intervention from the home secretary, officials said.

LONDON, May 7 (UPI) -- Britain is upgrading cannabis to a Class B drug, meaning possession of marijuana could bring up to five years behind bars, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said.

LONDON, May 5 (UPI) -- Boris Johnson, newly sworn in Sunday as mayor of London, warned the head of the Metropolitan Police that his days are numbered if crime remains high.