If the Eagles have the nerve to return, why shouldn’t Jack from Hell?
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By Jeremy Lovell Fri Feb 29, 12:01 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Jack the Ripper is about to return to the part of London he made his own private killing ground in one of history’s most infamous unsolved crimes.
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Here’s a post from […]
Britain says North Sea incident “contained”
21 minutes ago
(Reporting by John Joseph, Adrian Croft; Editing by Sami Aboudi)
London (Reuters)-Britain evacuated of(sic) oil workers from a North Sea accommodation platform on Sunday after reports of a bomb threat but officials said the incident was quickly contained and there was no need to send in a bomb squad.
About […]
City boasts less spitting, better queuing
Fri Feb 8, 12:23 PM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - Less spitting, better queuing and cleaner streets show Beijing has become more “civilized,” but the city still has to fine-tune its etiquette to attain Olympic standards, Xinhua news agency said Friday, citing a new study.
China wants to leave nothing to chance […]
Archbishop faces calls to go over sharia remark
Sat Feb 9, 2008 1:57pm GMT
By Adrian Croft
LONDON (Reuters) - Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the world’s 77 million Anglicans, faced calls to resign on Saturday for suggesting that the introduction in Britain of some aspects of Islamic law was unavoidable.
The Archbishop of Canterbury tried to quell the […]
The Daily Mail
November 25, 2007
Archbishop of Canterbury: U.S ‘is worse than the British Empire at its peak’
Last updated at 13:52pm on 25th November 2007
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a stinging attack on America, comparing it unfavourably with the British Empire at its peak.Dr Rowan Williams condemned America for moving on from Iraq and leaving […]
The new British empire? UK plans to annex south Atlantic
Owen Bowcott
Saturday September 22, 2007
The Guardian
Britain is preparing territorial claims on tens of thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean floor around the Falklands, Ascension Island and Rockall in the hope of annexing potentially lucrative gas, mineral and oil fields, the Guardian has learned.
The UK […]
…Giuliani told a small group of reporters at a posh London hotel as onlookers gathered in the lobby to gawk at actor Dustin Hoffman who was on a separate visit.
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When I read this at HuffingtonPost,
I immediately thought of ANNIE HALL
in which Woody Allen’s character
recalls someone from his childhood.
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ADULT ALVY
(Pointing)
Look, look, there’s-there’s that one
over there, that’s […]
Both cities are over-populated.
Both are on islands.
Could it be that London restaurants must import all champagne and chefs?
But, that’s not true.
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By Richard Vines
Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) — London has overtaken Tokyo as the most expensive city in the world for dining out, with a meal now costing more than twice as much as in New York, […]
Military scientists tested mustard gas on Indians
In pictures: Porton Down experiments
· Hundreds of soldiers used in experiments
· Illnesses caused by carcinogen not tracked
Rob Evans
Saturday September 1, 2007
Guardian
British military scientists sent hundreds of Indian soldiers into gas chambers and exposed them to mustard gas, documents uncovered by the Guardian have revealed.
The Guardian understands that the British […]
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Arab princesses kicked off British Airways plane to jeers and whistles after refusing to sit next to male strangers
By RAY MASSEY
Last updated at 11:45am on 28th July 2007
The delayed plane sat on a baking Italian runway for almost three hours
Three Arab princesses were thrown off a packed British Airways flight after refusing to sit next […]