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Police calm London, but riots flare across UK
LONDON — Thousands of extra police officers flooded into London Wednesday in a bid to end Britain's worst rioting in a generation. An eerie calm prevailed in the capital, but unrest spread across England on a fourth night of violence driven by (...)

10 - 08 - 2011
Group says it hacked US law enforcement websites
LONDON (AP) — The group known as Anonymous said Saturday it has hacked into some 70 law enforcement websites across the southern and central United States in retaliation for arrests of its sympathizers in the U.S. and Britain. The hacking group (...)

06 - 08 - 2011
McCartney: I'm going to police over hacking claim
Former Beatle Paul McCartney said Thursday he would contact police over his ex-wife's claim that the couple had been spied upon by a British newspaper. In comments to US television journalists delivered via videolink from Cincinnati, Ohio, (...)

05 - 08 - 2011
Libya war cost US $400m so far
The British military estimates that operations in Libya have cost about 250 million EGP (U.S. $400 million) so far, according to media reports late Wednesday. The Defense Ministry was due to set out the costs of the operation in a written (...)

23 - 06 - 2011
Soccer fans, Twitter users defy UK privacy rules
LONDON (AP): Britain's privacy rules are under assault by rambunctious journalists, Twitter users and even sports fans, as thousands defy a judge's order keeping the name of a well-known soccer star secret. The disclosure of the sportsman's (...)

23 - 05 - 2011
Art community rallies to Ai Weiwei's defense
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has vanished. But look around, and he seems to be everywhere. More than a month after one of China's best-known contemporary artist was arrested while trying to board a flight to Hong Kong, his name, his face and his art (...)

12 - 05 - 2011
UK: Arab democracy risings may be bigger than 9/11
LONDON: The pro-democracy risings shaking the Middle East may have a greater impact than the recent recession or the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Britain's Foreign Secretary said Wednesday. Speaking to a white-tie audience at an Easter (...)

05 - 05 - 2011
Hackers strike back to support WikiLeaks founder
LONDON: WikiLeaks supporters struck back Wednesday at perceived enemies of founder Julian Assange, attacking the websites of Swedish prosecutors, the Swedish lawyer whose clients have accused Assange of sexual crimes and the Swiss authority that (...)

08 - 12 - 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested in UK
LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange surrendered to London police Tuesday to face a Swedish arrest warrant, the latest blow to an organization that faces legal, financial and technological challenges after releasing hundreds of secret US (...)

07 - 12 - 2010
Ingrid Pitt, doyenne of Hammer horror films, dies
Ingrid Pitt, who survived a Nazi concentration camp and dodged Communist police to become one of Britain's best-known horror stars, died Tuesday, her daughter said. She was 73. Steffanie Pitt said her mother collapsed while on her way to a (...)

24 - 11 - 2010
Whale of a Trip: Humpback makes record migration
LONDON: It wasn't love. It could have been adventure. Or maybe she just got lost. It remains a mystery why a female humpback whale swam thousands of miles from the reefs of Brazil to the African island of Madagascar, which researchers believe is (...)

14 - 10 - 2010
Scientists: We've cracked wheat's genetic code
LONDON: British scientists have decoded the genetic sequence of wheat — one of the world's oldest and most important crops — a development they hope could help the global staple meet the challenges of climate change, disease and population (...)

29 - 08 - 2010
Britain's Cameron criticized for Iran nuke gaffe
LONDON: Opposition politicians are needling British leader David Cameron for telling a town hall audience that Iran has a nuclear weapon. The prime minister was speaking about Turkish accession to the European Union before a crowd of local (...)

06 - 08 - 2010
UK removes blog post praising late Lebanese cleric
LONDON: Britain's ambassador to Lebanon angered Israelis and embarrassed officials in London after writing a blog post praising the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a staunchly anti-American cleric linked to Hezbollah. Frances (...)

09 - 07 - 2010
Early humans ventured farther north than thought
LONDON: Ancient man ventured into northern Europe far earlier than previously thought, settling on England's east coast more than 800,000 years ago, scientists said. It had been assumed that humans — thought to have emerged from Africa around (...)

08 - 07 - 2010
Giant predatory whale named for 'Moby Dick' author
LONDON: Scientists have discovered an ancient whale whose bite ripped huge chunks of flesh out of other whales about 12 million years ago — and they've named it after the author of "Moby Dick." The prehistoric sperm whale grew to between 13 and (...)

01 - 07 - 2010
London to open 1st exercise area for older people
Swinging London will take on a whole new connotation for the capital s aging baby boomers, who will soon get their own specially designed outdoor playground. The park will offer low-impact exercise equipment to help older people improve their (...)

12 - 02 - 2010
In a London bunker, robo-art comes to life
In a concrete chamber beneath central London, a host of obscure-looking machines are whirring to life, electronic eyes are trembling and winking, and a set of colored circles are pulsing to the beat of a human heart. The subterranean display is (...)

05 - 02 - 2010
Rosalind Belben's ''Our Horses in Egypt" wins literary award
LONDON: Novelist Rosalind Belben and first-time biographer Rosemary Hill have won Britain s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, the University of Edinburgh announced. Belben won the fiction prize for Our Horses in Egypt, (...)

01 - 09 - 2008
Om Kulthoum's necklace to be auctioned
LONDON: An antique necklace with some 1,888 pearls that belonged to music icon Om Kulthoum will go up for auction next month, Christie s said Monday. The nine-row necklace is expected to fetch $120,000 when it goes for sale in Dubai, the (...)

04 - 03 - 2008
British adventurer completes 46,000-mile human-powered circumnavigation of the globe
LONDON: He was hit by a car in Colorado, attacked by a crocodile in Australia, detained as a suspected spy in Egypt, and survived illness and periods of despair. On Saturday, British adventurer Jason Lewis finally came home, completing a 13-year, (...)

07 - 10 - 2007
Huge fiberglass statue of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of the dead, floats down Thames
LONDON: A giant statue of the ancient Egyptian god of the dead floated down the Thames on Monday, turning heads as it crossed under London s Tower Bridge. The 7.6-meter fiberglass representation of the jackal-headed god was taken down the river (...)

03 - 10 - 2007
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