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 Sir Cliff Richard arrives for the world film premiere of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" in London´s Royal Albert Hall, Wednesday Dec. 7, 2005. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)   (js1)
(photo: AP/Letteris Pitarakis)
Cliff Richard turns to jazz to mark 70th birthday
China Daily
| Veteran British singer Cliff Richard will mark his 70th birthday with the release of an album of jazz and swing music, he announced on Tuesday. | The evergreen performer, a chart topper before the Beatles arrived who has sold an estimated 250 million records over more than 50 years, will sing cove...
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain David Miliband holds a bilateral with Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton, not shown, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2009, at the State Department in Washington.
(photo: AP / Lawrence Jackson)
UK minister urges push for Afghan peace
Khaleej Times
LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Afghans on Wednesday to push energetically for a peace settlement with Taleban insurgents and said Afghanistan's neighbours must support such an agreement. | Miliband's conciliatory comments, in a speech to be given in the United States later o...
Sequel to 'Phantom of the Opera' opens in London
The Star
| LONDON: Will the magic of the Phantom strike twice for Andrew Lloyd Webber? The professional critics' reviews haven't yet come in, but audiences at Tuesday's world premiere in London of "Love Never Dies" - the sequel to Lloyd Webber's global hit "P...
Holland proposes giving over-70s who 'consider their lives complete' the right to die | Mail Online
Newsvine
| Assisted suicide for anyone over 70 who has simply had enough of life is being considered in Holland. | Non-doctors would be trained to administer a lethal potion to elderly people who 'consider their lives complete'. | ...
British trying to curb threat of dogs
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| LONDON -- A chip for Spot? In a country where guns are tightly controlled, and even carrying a kitchen knife can bring prison time, some thugs use dogs to menace their victims. Now, the British government is proposing that dog owners be forced to h...
Whittier Middle School honor roll
The Oklahoman
| Whittier Middle School NORMAN - These students from Whittier Middle School made the 4.0 honor roll for the second quarter of the 2009-10 school year: | Sixth grade: Hayden Allen, Haley Arnold, Jordyn Austin, John Barry, Ryan Base, Lauren Bauman, Ga...
File - Detainees at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo, Cuba, sit on prayer rugs as they observe morning prayers before sunrise inside Camp Delta Oct. 28, 2009.
US Navy / MCS2 Marcos T. Hernandez
UK complained to US about terror suspect torture, says ex-MI5 boss
The Guardian
| • Waterboarding of 9/11 suspect was 'concealed' | • Manningham-Buller criticises Bush staff | Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller criticised George Bush and his administration, for ...
The hands of a cyberathlete hover over mouse and keyboard during the preliminary round of the Cyberathlete Professional League World Tour New York Finals at web2zone in New York, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005. Launched in 1997, the Cyberathlete Professional League World Tour Finals is the world's first computer game sports league. At this event, thirty two players from accross the globe will compete over three days, Nov. 20-22, for a total purse of $500,000, with the winner receiving $150,000. The final round will be played at the Nokia Theater in New York's Times Square on Nov. 22, 2005.
AP Photo / Jason DeCrow
Banking fraudsters 'switch to raiding online accounts'
BBC News
| Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, according to new research. | Fraud losses on UK credit and debit cards totalle...
In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, guards stand on either side of a line-up of Guantanamo detainees, in white, to perform a search for unauthorized items, at Guantanamo's Camp 4 detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Tuesday, May 12, 2009.
AP / Brennan Linsley
Ex-MI5 chief says US 'concealed suspect mistreatment'
BBC News
| The former head of MI5 has claimed US intelligence agencies "concealed" their mistreatment of terror suspects. | Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller said she only discover...
Bali bombings suspect shot dead
The Guardian
| Indonesia's president said a top-ranked Southeast Asian militant wanted for planning the 2002 Bali bombings, in which 28 Britons died, has been identified as the man shot dead by police in a raid on the island of Java. | President Susilo Bambang Yu...
Men seized 'days before planned attack in Britain'
The Daily Telegraph Australia
| FIVER Pakistani men linked to a terror plot in Britain similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told overnight. | A British intelligence officer, identified only a...
Team US picks University of East London as Olympic base
BBC News
| The United States' Olympics team is to use University of East London (UEL) campuses as its 2012 Games base. | More than 1,000 competitors, coaches and medical staff will use UEL campuses in the Docklands and Stratford in east London, near the Olymp...
Britain
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, left, speaks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a meeting at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009.
(photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool, Pool)
David Miliband to seek Afghanistan political drive
BBC News
| Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to call on the Afghan government to work harder to find a political solution to the conflict with the Taliban. | At a lecture in the US, he is expected to urge President Hamid Karzai to work harder to match international military and development effort in his country. | He is set to say a political settlement i...
Business
The hands of a cyberathlete hover over mouse and keyboard during the preliminary round of the Cyberathlete Professional League World Tour New York Finals at web2zone in New York, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005. Launched in 1997, the Cyberathlete Professional League World Tour Finals is the world's first computer game sports league. At this event, thirty two players from accross the globe will compete over three days, Nov. 20-22, for a total purse of $500,000, with the winner receiving $150,000. The final round will be played at the Nokia Theater in New York's Times Square on Nov. 22, 2005.
(photo: AP Photo / Jason DeCrow)
Banking fraudsters 'switch to raiding online accounts'
BBC News
| Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, according to new research. | Fraud losses on UK credit and debit cards totalled £440m in 2009 - a drop of 28% compared with the previous year - the UK Cards Association said. | But the number of "phishing" attacks rose by 16% in the...



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