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William and Kate Surprise Crowd With Visit to Belfast
By not in system - AOL NewsBELFAST, Northern Ireland -- She flipped a pancake on Shrove Tuesday - and somehow it even landed back in the pan. Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton traveled to Belfast on Tuesday, delighting a surprised but enthusiastic crowd with their first official visit to Northern Ireland before their April 29 wedding. Peter Morrison, AP Princess-to-be Kate Middleton flips a pancake at a charity event in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday. Dozens of people gathered to see Middleton and Prince William in the couple's third public outing in recent weeks. Police kept watch from the ...
Catherine Zeta-Jones Now a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for Some Reason
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsShe's Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE, if you please. Today the Welsh actress-turned-Hollywood celebrity became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, or CBE, in a Buckingham Palace ceremony. Prince Charles bestowed the honor in recognition of Zeta-Jones' acting career and charity work. When the Queen's Honours List was announced last year, The Daily Mail sniped that Zeta-Jones "has not lived in the U.K. for over a decade, preferring the life of a sun-soaked tax exile." The Order of the British Empire was created by George V in 1917 to recognize "distinguished service to the arts and ...
Tripoli Evacuations: Nations Rush to Get Their Citizens Out of Libya [VIDEOS]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsAs Moammar Gadhafi continues his violent crackdown on the protests in Libya, nations are rushing to evacuate their citizens from the country. Most are departing from Tripoli, Libya's capital and principal port. The U.K.-based Independent Television News captured footage of crowds at Tripoli International Airport, where many passengers were hoping to catch flights to nearby Malta. Turkey has dispatched two ships to rescue its nationals, and Italy is sending boats and planes. The government of India has ordered two ships to assist thousands of Indians stranded in Tripoli and ...
Chelsy Davy: 5 Facts About Prince Harry's Sometimes Girlfriend
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsThey're on, they're off and they may be on again. Royal observers are reporting that Prince Harry and his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy may be reuniting. Although the pair split last fall, they were seen together Saturday at a London nightclub. Rumor also has it that Davy will be Harry's date for his brother William's royal wedding. Here are five facts about the younger prince's on-again, off-again, perhaps on-again girlfriend. 1. She was born in Zimbabwe Davy's father, Charles Davy, runs exclusive hunting safaris in a vast tract of private bushland. Although President Robert Mugabe's regime ...
WikiLeaks: UK Advised Libya on How to Free Lockerbie Bomber
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- The British government secretly advised Libya on how to secure the early release of Lockerbie plane bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, according to leaked diplomatic papers from the U.S. Embassy in London. The documents also suggest that Prince Andrew, the fourth in line to the throne, played a behind-the-scenes role in obtaining the former Libyan intelligence officer's freedom. One diplomatic dispatch, obtained by the WikiLeaks website and published today in the British newspaper The Telegraph, states that within a week of Megrahi being diagnosed with "inoperable and ...
Opinion: The Top Stories of 2010 -- What Comes Next?
By Dave George - AOL NewsOh, 2010, you were such a disappointment. If you were my kid, your mother and I would be having this discussion in the living room and letting you know just how much you let us down. You had such potential! And you squandered it. This was the year when we were supposed to get good jobs for the jobless, the planet was going to begin healing, a war was going to end, and Lindsay Lohan was supposed to get sober. Well, in any case, here's a quick look back at some of the biggest stories that broke in 2010. And, at no additional cost to you, I provide a forecast of how they will develop in ...
Students March in Protest as British Lawmakers OK Tuition Hike
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LONDON (Dec. 9) -- British lawmakers on Thursday approved a controversial plan to triple university tuition fees with a narrow margin after some government legislators rebelled amid violent protests outside Parliament. The plan to raise the cap on tuition fees to 9,000 pounds ($14,000) was approved, 323-302 in the House of Commons, a small margin given the government's 84-seat majority. The tuition vote posed a crucial test for governing Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, and for the government's austerity plans to reduce Britain's budget deficit. Outside Parliament, police with riot ...
Americans Best Brits on Lifespan, But Suffer More Illness
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Americans can expect to outlive their British peers, but not without suffering chronic ailments to a greater extent than those living across the Atlantic. A collaborative effort between U.S.-based Rand Corp and Britain's Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has reached that conclusion, after evaluating data on Americans and Brits aged 50 and older. "If you get sick at older ages, you will die sooner in England than in the United States," James Smith, who co-authored the study, told Reuters. How did researchers draw their country-vs.-country conclusions? They analyzed a massive ...
Museums Cover Up Mummies to Placate Pagans
By Lee Speigel - AOL News
(Nov. 2) -- Even if you've been dead nearly 2,000 years, if you show too much skin, somebody is going to get offended. Several museums in the U.K. are giving their mummies a bit more privacy to keep from offending faith-based groups. The Daily Mail reports that, after giving in to increasing pressure from pagan organizations, like Honouring the Ancient Dead, or HAD, nearly 20 museums -- including the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, the Royal Cornwall Museum and the Museum of London -- are revamping their policies regarding how human remains will be displayed. At the Manchester Museum, ...
Britain Had No Clue What to Do in Iraq, Colonel Testifies
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- In an admission more befitting of a satirical film, Col. Tim Collins, who led his Royal Irish regiment into Iraq at the outset of the war, told a British inquiry team today that his superiors had "absolutely no idea" what to do after the invasion. "I rather thought that there would be some sort of plan and the government had thought this through, and I was clearly wrong," he said. "It became very apparent to me shortly after crossing the border that the government and many of my superiors had no idea what they were doing." Collins was paid a visit at the army base in Tidworth, ...
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