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David Bowie releases first album in decade British rock icon David Bowie released his first album in a decade Thursday, streaming the comeback record exclusively on iTunes.
01 March 2013
British PM Cameron faces 'crisis' after by-election defeat The Liberal Democrats on Friday hung onto the southern England parliamentary seat of Eastleigh, dealing a heavy blow to Prime Minister David Cameron whose Conservative Party were beaten into third place.
01 March 2013
©REUTERS Royal Bank of Scotland posts 2012 net loss of £5.971 billion State-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland said Thursday that net losses almost tripled to £5.97 billion in 2012, when it was hit by compensation payouts, Libor rate-rigging fines and a vast accounting charge.
28 February 2013
©REUTERS Study boosts link between flu vaccine, sleep disorder A study in England has strengthened evidence from Scandinavia that a vaccine used to prevent pandemic flu boosted the risk of sleep disorder among teens and children.
27 February 2013
Rudyard Kipling. Photo courtesy of inquisitr.com Trove of Kipling poems discovered An investigation by a US academic has uncovered 50 unpublished poems by British writer Rudyard Kipling in locations including a New York house and the papers of a former cruise-line owner.
27 February 2013
Mukhtar Ablyazov. Photo by Yaroslav Radloskiy© British Supreme Court ends Ablyazov's legal maneuvers Great Britain's Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of ex-chairman of Kazakhstan's BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov.
26 February 2013
Mukhtar Ablyazov. Photo by Yaroslav Radlovskiy© London High Court bans deals with Internet media owned by Ablyazov Pursuing the lawsuits filed by BTA Bank against its former head Mukhtar Ablyazov, the London High Court has expanded the list of his assets and companies banned from any transactions.
26 February 2013
Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr. ©REUTERS Australia dismisses Assange fears as 'fantasy' Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has dismissed as "fantasy" claims by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that Sweden's case against him is a conspiracy to have him extradited to the United States.
26 February 2013
Syria rebels agree to meet Kerry, dismiss Damascus offer Syria's opposition has cancelled a planned boycott of an international conference on the two-year conflict after appeals from Britain and the US, but rejected an offer of talks from Damascus.
26 February 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry in London to start first official tour John Kerry will push his Russian counterpart to apply pressure on Syria when they meet during the new US Secretary of State's marathon tour of allies.
26 February 2013
Britain loses AAA rating in Moody's downgrade Moody's stripped Britain of its triple-A debt rating Friday, saying government debt was still mounting and that growth was too weak to reverse the trend before 2016.
23 February 2013
©REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett Britain braces for fresh Eastern European immigration wave Coils of Polish sausages glisten on shop counters and vodka bottles line the shelves. In this corner of the English countryside, much of the chatter is in Latvian or Lithuanian.
22 February 2013
Europe horsemeat scandal spreads to Asia The fallout from Europe's horsemeat scandal has spread far outside the continent, with an imported lasagne brand pulled from shelves in Hong Kong and a new row over the treatment of horses farmed in the Americas.
21 February 2013
BP vows to 'vigorously defend' itself at US oil spill trial British energy giant BP vowed Tuesday to "vigorously defend" itself in court next week against US government claims for "excessive" fines in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.
21 February 2013
Le Pen slams 'Soviet European Union' in UK speech French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen called for a "New Deal" on immigration and slammed the emergence of a "Soviet European Union" during a fiery speech at Britain's Cambridge University on Tuesday.
20 February 2013
Miss Kazakhstan UK Symbat Kulzhagarova. ©facebook.com Miss Kazakhstan UK selected in Great Britain By winning the Miss Kazakhstan UK titles, Kulzhagarova and Sagynbek kyzy gained a right to represent Kazakhstan in the Miss USSR UK final.
20 February 2013
©REUTERS/Jason Lee Smog causes surge in heart deaths: study Exposure to higher levels of fine particulates -- the airborne pollution that is an emerging problem in many Asian cities -- causes a sharp rise in deaths from heart attacks.
20 February 2013
Vivienne Westwood urges Kate to buy less Vivienne Westwood urged Prince William's wife Catherine on Sunday to stop buying so many outfits and to be more environmentally responsible in the way she dressed.
18 February 2013
Peter Root and Mary Thompson. Photo courtesy of thisisguernsey.com British world cycle couple dead in Thai crash: police A British couple who were 18 months into a trip around the world by bicycle have been killed in a road accident in Thailand.
18 February 2013
Europe sharply split over military support for Syrian rebels Britain, apparently backed by a handful of European Union allies, is fighting to lift an EU arms embargo barring the supply of weapons to the Syrian rebel coalition battling President Bashar al-Assad.
18 February 2013
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