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Princess Diana. ©Reuters/Ian Waldie Diana leaked royal directory to UK tabloid, court hears The late Princess Diana leaked a royal phone directory to the now defunct News of the World tabloid, its former royal editor told Britain's phone-hacking trial.
14 March 2014
Vincent Bollore, CEO of investment group Bollore. ©Reuters/Olivia Harris Bollore to quadruple electric-car points in Britain French tycoon Vincent Bollore said Wednesday he aims to introduce a car version of the "Boris Bikes" hire scheme in London, and quadruple the number of electric car-charging points in Britain.
13 March 2014
Move over '123456': passwords go high-tech too Internet users may before long have a secure solution to the modern plague of passwords, in which they can use visual patterns or even their own body parts to identify themselves.
13 March 2014
Clashes in Ukraine as Putin stays defiant Pro-Russian activists with clubs and whips clashed with pro-Kiev supporters Sunday as tens of thousands rallied across Ukraine in rival protests, and Russian President Vladimir Putin dug in his heels in the standoff with the West.
10 March 2014
Beth Warren. Photo courtesy of itv.com British widow wins battle for husband's frozen sperm A British woman won a High Court battle to preserve her late husband's sperm for at least another decade so that she can bear his children.
07 March 2014
©Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch Under shadow of spy scandal, Merkel, Cameron head to tech fair The German and British leaders will officially open the world's biggest high-tech fair on Sunday, amid global debate about data security following revelations of mass US and British online snooping.
07 March 2014
Amnesty International's Secretary General Salil Shetty. ©Reuters/Tomas Bravo Amnesty tells state to stop criminalising sex lives Amnesty International on Thursday urged governments to stop criminalising people's sex lives and instead protect their right to control their own bodies.
07 March 2014
British Museum shows Vikings' softer side The Vikings are renowned as bloodthirsty warriors, but a new exhibition at the British Museum aims to show the cultural achievements and trading skills that spread their influence far and wide.
06 March 2014
UK's House of Commons to open doors to Meryl Streep Britain's House of Commons will open its doors to a commercial film crew for the first time next month in a bid to raise cash, welcoming Meryl Streep for a movie about the suffragettes.
05 March 2014
New Zealand Maori king refuses to meet Prince William New Zealand's Maori king has refused to meet Prince William during a royal tour next month.
04 March 2014
Remove children from radical Muslim parents: London mayor Muslim youngsters who are being radicalised by their parents should be treated as child abuse victims and removed from their families.
03 March 2014
Britain's Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge. ©Reuters/Andrew Winning Baby Prince George heading to Australia, New Zealand Prince William and his wife Catherine will take their baby son Prince George with them on their tour of Australia and New Zealand next month.
03 March 2014
British press says Merkel gave Cameron little to cheer Britain's newspapers said Friday that Prime Minister David Cameron had little to cheer from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit as he seeks consensus on reforming EU migration rules.
28 February 2014
©Reuters/Robert Galbraith UK, US spies stored millions of Yahoo webcam images: report US senators said British and US spy agencies showed a "breathtaking lack of respect" for privacy after reports they had intercepted and stored images from webcams used by millions of Yahoo users.
28 February 2014
Arctic Ocean. ©Reuters/Kathryn Hansen/NASA US, British science academies: Climate change is real US and British scientific academies said there was a clear consensus that climate change is real and will have serious disruptive effects on the planet.
27 February 2014
McCartney honoured at NME awards, 50 years after topping bill Beatles legend Paul McCartney received a standing ovation at the NME awards ceremony in London, where he accepted the influential British magazine's special prize honouring his 50-year-career.
27 February 2014
Merkel set for historic UK visit German chancellor Angela Merkel will make an historic speech to Britain's parliament on Thursday before holding EU talks with Prime Minister David Cameron and taking tea with Queen Elizabeth II.
27 February 2014
Overworked nurses linked to higher death rates Investigations in nine European countries have given statistical backing to claims that patients' lives may be at risk when nurses are overworked.
26 February 2014
Hollywood 'exile' for black actors worries British government Black British actors have been taking Hollywood by storm, with Chiwetel Ejiofor's Oscar nomination for "12 Years a Slave" just the latest example, but at home they still face a lack of roles that has driven some from the country.
25 February 2014
Alice Herz-Sommer. Photo courtesy of ecomonkey.blogspot.com Oldest-known Holocaust survivor dies aged 110: family Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor and the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, has died in London aged 110.
24 February 2014
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