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WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 25, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Four Greenpeace activists climbed on top of a British Airways plane at London's Heathrow Airport on Monday to protest plans to build a third runway, the environmental group said. The protesters unveiled a banner atop the plane which reads, "Climate emerge.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jan 4, 2008 @ 8:52am neoform

BBC News -- Burma has held a series of low-key events to mark the 60th anniversary of independence from British rule. Military ruler Gen Than Shwe used the occasion to reiterate the government's determination to continue with its seven-stage roadmap to democracy... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

CNN -- The two sons of a British man who suddenly reappeared five years after he was thought to have drowned at sea said Thursday they feared they may have been the victims of a "huge scam" carried out by their own parents. Police on Thursday were preparing to q.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 9:58pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- A British man who was held in Guantánamo Bay has begun a civil action against MI5 and MI6 over the tactics that they use to gather intelligence. The suit has been brought by Tarek Dergoul, 29, who claims he was repeatedly tortured while he was held by.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Aug 11, 2007 @ 11:15am neoform

CNN -- Police investigating the disappearance of a four-year-old British girl at a Portuguese resort are now considering the possibility that she might be dead, a senior official says. Investigators say Madeleine McCann vanished May 3 from an apartment where she.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Jul 15, 2007 @ 11:14am neoform

CNN -- New British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, seeking to quash speculation that London may distance itself from Washington over Iraq, insisted on Sunday the United States was still Britain's number one ally. "It is the single most important bilateral rela.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- The man suspected of poisoning ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko has said it could not have happened without the involvement of British secret services. Andrei Lugovoi, who denies the allegations, told a Moscow news conference that he was a scapegoat... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri May 11, 2007 @ 8:02am neoform

FOX News -- Treasury chief Gordon Brown on Friday launched his campaign to become Britain's next prime minister and win back voters disenchanted after a decade of Labour Party rule. Brown said his government would honor Britain's commitments in Iraq but acknowledg.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed May 2, 2007 @ 9:38am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- The American government wants to impose travel restrictions on British citizens of Pakistani origin because of concerns about terrorism, according to a report today. In talks with the British government, the US homeland security secretary, Michael Cher.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

CNN -- The British government will launch an investigation on Wednesday into claims that former nuclear plant workers at a state-owned facility who died in the 1960s and 1970s may have had body parts removed without consent. Unions representing workers in the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Feb 2, 2007 @ 11:18am mrmdc

News.com.au -- A PLANE-load of prisoners from British jails could be headed Down Under more than 200 years after Britain first sent boats full of convicts to Australia... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Dec 19, 2006 @ 10:01am mrmdc

www.dnaindia.com -- British police arrested on Tuesday a second suspect over the murder of five women whose naked corpses were dumped around a quiet English town, gripped by fear of a serial killer... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Nov 30, 2006 @ 8:17am neoform

Northwest Florida Daily News -- Authorities found traces of radiation on two British Airways 767 jetliners Wednesday as investigators widened their search for clues into the poisoning death of former Russian spy and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Nov 22, 2006 @ 8:41am neoform

Daily Mail -- A diplomatic row erupted between London and Washington ght over George Bush's bid to cover up the way bungling US soldiers killed British servicemen in Iraq... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Nov 11, 2006 @ 6:13pm neoform

Independent -- British Muslims have been driven towards extremism and terrorist acts because of the UK's part in the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the head of MI5... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Nov 11, 2006 @ 10:59am neoform

The Register -- The British government is shockingly underprepared for an attack by extraterrestrials, an ex-MoD man has claimed... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Nov 7, 2006 @ 9:42am mrmdc

Ananova -- A British al Qaida terrorist who plotted atrocities on both sides of the Atlantic was jailed for at least 40 years... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 12, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- The British government says a senior intelligence official in the Cabinet office has been suspended after secret government documents were left on a commuter train. The documents on al-Qaida and Iraq were found by a passenger on a London commuter train.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu May 1, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- The contest to be London's mayor, running a city of around 13 million people, has come at a crucial moment in British politics. It could help determine the outcome of the next general election. But the contest is essentially one between two highly individ.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Mar 31, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- The coroner who is leading an inquest into the death of Princess Diana says there is "no evidence" that the British secret service -- or any other government agency -- had anything to do with the princess' death in 1997. Summing up in the inquest Monday,.. Read More