Danica Kirka
London
About Danica Kirka
Covering money and power for the Associated Press in London
BP CEO quits over questions about personal conduct
Global energy giant BP, one of Britain’s biggest and most recognizable companies, is scurrying to find a new chief executive after CEO Bernard Looney became the latest corporate leader to step down amid questions about his personal conduct.
Will and Kate off to Boston to seek out environmental entrepreneurs
The first overseas trip by the Prince and Princess of Wales since the death of Queen Elizabeth II begins on Wednesday, November 30, 2022, an occasion to show the world as much about who they are not as who they are.
Prince William focuses U.S. trip on Earthshot Prize for environmental innovators
Prince William and the Princess of Wales will be looking to focus attention on their Earthshot Prize for environmental innovators when they make their first visit to the United States in eight years this week, a trip clouded by tensions with William's brother, Prince Harry, and his wife, Meghan, who have criticized Britain’s royal family in the American media.
Soaring energy prices ups pressure for windfall tax in Britain and U.S.
BP’s earnings more than doubled in the third quarter as the London-based energy giant benefited from high oil and natural gas prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
King Charles III decides not to attend COP27 climate summit
King Charles III has decided not to attend the international climate change summit in Egypt next month, fueling speculation that the new monarch will have to rein in his environmental activism now that he has ascended the throne.
UK heat wave messes up train schedules for third day
Forecasters predict London will reach a high of 26 Celsius (79 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, down from the record 40.3C (104.4F) set Tuesday at Coningsby in eastern England.
UK breaks its highest temperature record and forecasters say worse is expected
Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, amid a heat wave that has seized swaths of Europe — and the national weather forecaster predicted it would get hotter still in a country ill prepared for such extremes.
UK issues first ever extreme heat warning
Britain’s first−ever extreme heat warning is in effect for large parts of England as hot, dry weather that has scorched mainland Europe for the past week moves north, disrupting travel, health care and schools.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Ashoori return to Britain after Iran deal
Two British citizens who had been jailed in Iran for more than five years — charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and retired civil engineer Anoosheh Ashoori — returned home to their families' hugs and tears on Thursday, March 16, 2022, after the U.K. settled a decades-old debt to Iran.