Alonso Wins British GP and Extends Lead

Fernando Alonso is making his Formula One world title defense look easy.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Up 75.1 Points

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at midday Friday.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Up 30.9 Points

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at midday Wednesday.

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British Vote Oasis Album Best of All

"Definitely Maybe," the debut album by Oasis, has beaten the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in a British vote for the greatest album of all time, organizers said Thursday.

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British Lawmaker Praises Castro As 'Lion'

An outspoken British lawmaker appeared on Cuban television praising Fidel Castro as a "lion" of world politics and defending the Cuban leader against a magazine report naming him one of the world's wealthiest rulers.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Up 28.7 Points

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at midday Thursday.

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British Plane Catches Fire in Afghanistan

A British military C-130 cargo aircraft caught fire while landing at an airstrip in southern Afghanistan, but all aboard escaped unhurt, officials said.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Down 101.6 Points

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were lower at midday Wednesday.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Up 75.5 Points

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at midday Tuesday.

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Aliance & Leicester Shares Surge

Shares in Alliance & Leicester PLC rose sharply Monday after Credit Agricole SA confirmed it was looking at the bank as a possible takeover target.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Closes Down 14.2

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange closed lower Friday.

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Stock Prices Climb in London

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at midday Thursday.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Down 159.90 Points

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were lower Wednesday.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Up 10.4 Points

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at midday Tuesday.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Down 129.9 Points

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange closed lower Friday.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Down 92.5 Points

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were lower at midday Friday.

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Stock Prices Climb in London

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at midday Thursday.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Down 2.9 Points

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were lower at midday Wednesday.

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Leeds Beats Preston to Reach Playoff Final

Leeds advanced to the final of the promotion playoffs for a spot in the English Premier League next season, beating Preston North End 2-0 Monday night on goals by Rob Hulse and Frazer Richardson.

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Stock Prices Climb in London

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at midday Tuesday.

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U.K. Copter Crashes in Iraq; Iraqis Cheer

A British military helicopter crashed in the southern city of Basra on Saturday, and a crowd of Iraqis cheered and threw stones at British forces who raced to the scene to seal off the area.

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Lewis Scores As Leeds Ties Preston

Eddie Lewis scored on a curling free kick against his former club, giving Leeds a 1-1 tie against Preston North End on Friday in the first round of the promotion playoffs for a spot in England's Premier League next season.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Up 54.8 at Close

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher as the market closed Friday.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Up 23.1 Points

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at midday Friday.

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London's FTSE-100 Index Up 25.6 Points

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were higher at midday Thursday.

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Jewish Brit: "brutal, totalitarian" Israeli invasion of Gaza

Roger van Zwanenberg (Pluto Books, UK): "Just as Nazi Germany could not survive for long, so too, a brutal Israel, brutalizing her own and all the surrounding people, cannot survive for long ...totalitarian regime in Israel."

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Taleban 'energised' by UK troops

From the BBC: The presence of British troops in Afghanistan has "energised" the Taleban, the defence secretary says.

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Filipino Independence Day on July 4 or June 12?

Filipino Declaration of Independence on June 12 1898 was followed by American invasion and war (1 million Filipinos died); ACTUAL Philippines Independence on 4 July 1946 but celebrated on June 12 from the 1960s.

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Wake up Canada, Terrorism Inevitable

A British counterterrorism expert warned that lax public security in Canada's largest city makes this country easy prey for terrorists increasingly thwarted by the vigilance of other nations around the world.

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Hamilton unrivaled in Silverstone sprint race

Lewis Hamilton continued the demonstration of his superiority today in the sprint race of the GP2 Series on the Silverstone Circuit.

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JK Rowling voted greatest living British writer

JK Rowling voted greatest living British writer LONDON (Reuters) - JK Rowling was voted the greatest living British writer in a survey published Thursday.

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British WC2006 Fantasy Football players unite!

Having just assembled my pick of the teams involved in this year's World Cup (which is, apparently, ™ FIFA... nice to know that capitalism hasn't found its way into global sport then), I nipped off and made a group for all the British Viners.

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Why Haditha Reminds This Historian of an Awful Chapter in British History

While many historians and commentators are drawing parallels between the alleged slaughter of unarmed civilians by US Marines in the Iraqi town of Haditha last year and the My Lai Massacre of the Vietnam War, a better guide – in terms of scale and cultural context - for how rea …

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Call Of Duty 2: Game Of The Year, Special Edition

Activision, Inc., today announced the release of Call of Duty™2: Game of the Year for the UK market.

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British surgeon cuts corners to buy hospital equipment on eBay

LONDON (AFP) - A British hospital surgeon used Internet auction site eBay to buy a vital piece of equipment for an operating theatre, officials said.

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Average British worker spends 3.5 minutes eating

LONDON (AFP) - The average British worker spends just 3.5 minutes on average actually eating lunch, in order to cram as much as possible into their break, according to a survey.

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US researchers find 18th-century British warships

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Britons floss with screwdrivers

LONDON (Reuters) - More than 60 percent of Britons use items such as screwdrivers, scissors and earrings to remove food from between their teeth, according to a survey on Friday.

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British male drivers waste six million hours a year not asking for directions

British male drivers waste nearly six million hours a year lost on the road because they are reluctant to ask for directions.

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Parents of American citizen who faked being British nobility come forward

An American couple has came forward claiming to be the estranged parents of a "bogus earl" who commited a Day of the Jackal-style identity theft.

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Hey Brits, you’re more American than you know - Times Online

Mr. Sullivan, it's the 21st century and I'd like to see some cites for those poll numbers. Otherwise, an interesting observation by an Americanized Briton (or a British-born American? You pick.).

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Security products keep watchful eye on workers

Vendors at the Infosec Europe 2006 conference in London this week showed products that could hasten the demise of the idle surfer at work.

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UK political sex scandal, private vs public lies, sleaze vs war crimes

Ros Taylor - private sexual morality apart from professional integrity; comments: sexual discretion indicative of general propriety; UK media hypocrisy - obsessed with sex & IGNORE UK-US war crimes, opiate deaths, betrayal of Coalition soldiers

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PVR solution for your Mac?

A review on a tiny little box that plugs in to your Mac via USB. Your aerial plugs in and wallah.

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Kensington SX2000 speakers beats out the iPod Hi-Fi at TechCast

The iPod Hi-Fi at £249 only gets a mixed review. One of them isn't that impressed the other is.

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Irish Easter Rising, Sir Roger Casement, C4A & Defending Humanity

NINETY YEARS AGO the Irish Easter Rising was suppressed by the British; Belgian Congo whistleblower Sir Roger Casement was hanged.

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Australian Dr Kendall-Smith jailed for rejecting Iraq War

DR MALCOLM KENDALL-SMITH is a HERO - this Australian doctor in the British RAF has been jailed for refusing to participate further in the illegal Iraq War.

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British High Commission rolls out biometric passports

British citizens in the country who wish to renew or apply for a new passport will, from now on, be issued with a biometric passport from the British High Commission.

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0.4 billion post-colonial Indian Holocaust - due to inherited disregard, spin & rich elites

Third World civilian mass mortality has been caused by foreign invasion, foreign occupation and post-colonial rule by corrupt indigenous elites - the commonality, low "practical regard" by rulers for their subjects.

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Iranian militiamen were brought in by Britain

Iranian Badr Brigade death squads were recruited as "security forces" by the British authorities occupying the Shiite provinces of Iraq, according to The Times.

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