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Movement for Happiness Launches in Britain
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- Is there a science of happiness? A growing band of economists, politicians and academics thinks so -- and is putting theory into practice by starting a "mass movement for a happier society." Action for Happiness launched today in London, encouraging hugging, meditation and random acts of kindness. It is getting under way as the British government asks statisticians to measure the economically battered nation's well-being. The nonprofit group's founders include a former Downing Street policy chief, Tony Blair's biographer and an eminent economist. They say happiness -- long ...
Retired Air Force Major Predicts UFO Sightings at Royal Wedding
By David Moye - AOL NewsThe upcoming royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton is expected to be viewed by more than a billion people worldwide -- and possibly a few extraterrestrials, according to at least one former military officer. George Filer, a retired Air Force major, runs the National UFO Center and says it's common to see UFOs around important events. "The craft seem to have an interest in anything important," Filer told AOL News. "They've been sighted recently over Libya and near the Japanese tsunami." Getty Images Some UFO researchers hope that Prince William and Kate Middleton ...
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 ...
WikiLeaks: US Funded UK Effort to Blunt Muslim Extremists
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- The United States launched a secret campaign to deradicalize young British Muslims after receiving warnings that the U.K. was struggling to address the threat posed by homegrown extremists, according to a new series of diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. The program, which had a budget of at least $50,000, began in 2008 after repeated warnings that the U.K. was not doing enough to counter domestic extremism. In August 2006 -- just over a year after four British Muslims blew themselves up on the London transport system, killing 52 people -- the U.S. Embassy in the capital sent a ...
UK Says Waterboarding Is Torture
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 9) -- The British government today disputed President George W. Bush's defense of waterboarding as an interrogation tactic in his memoir, "Decision Points." Bush claims that the technique, which simulates drowning, isn't torture and helped save the lives of British and American citizens. Not so, says Downing Street, which said it believes, along with President Barack Obama, that waterboarding is torture. "It comes under that definition in our view," a spokeswoman for the British government told The Guardian. Another former U.K. official, David Davis, also weighed in, saying torture ...
US-Based Jihadist Website Calls for Murder of British Politicians
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Nov. 5) -- A hit list of British politicians who supported the Iraq war has been removed from a U.S.-based Islamist website after the British government called on American officials to take action. RevolutionMuslim.com posted details of the 395 serving and former members of Parliament who voted in favor of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and called for Muslims to "raise the knife of jihad against those who voted for the countless rapes, murders, pillages and torture of Muslim civilians as a direct consequence of their vote." The politicians' names were followed by dozens of quotes from the ...
Breakdown: Queen Elizabeth's Budget Crunch
By Ernie Smith - AOL News(July 8) -- You know times are tough when even Queen Elizabeth II has to cut back. In a new, painful era of austerity for the British government, Her Majesty has been forced to shed a couple million pounds from her budget -- a result of both a smaller stipend from the British government and quickly shrinking coffers. While she's not exactly scraping by, reports have suggested she might be out of rainy day money by 2012 if her current spending habits continue. But considering Her Majesty's fairly important role of keeping up appearances for the United Kingdom, can the situation really be ...
UK Health Minister Gives Jamie Oliver's School Lunch Program an 'F'
By Katie Drummond - AOL NewsJamie Oliver's lecture-centric approach to improving the diets of British schoolchildren won't work, and might actually be making the country's health problem worse. That's the harsh bottom line on the celebrity chef's renowned "School Lunch" program, in the opinion of the U.K.'s new health minister, Andrew Lansley. It's a statement that extends beyond Oliver's advocacy efforts, and signals a move toward less intervention on the part of the new British government. "Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals," ...
U.K.'s Coalition Government: A Happy Marriage? (And Can It Last?)
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyThe United Kingdom has a coalition government for the first time in 70 years. But will this marriage of convenience last? The historic British elections, which -- after five days of intense wrangling -- finally yielded a new coalition government under the leadership of David Cameron on Tuesday night, has already unleashed a torrent of analysis and commentary. Some of it has been hopeful, some of it cautious, and some of it downright negative. ...
Tony Blair: Jesus Christ or Richard Nixon?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared before a government-appointed panel in London Friday to answer questions about his role in the war in Iraq. It was, in many ways, the moment this country has been waiting for ever since Blair's government joined the United States in invading Iraq in 2003. And in a telling sign of just how torn up the U.K. is over this man -- and this conflict -- he was alternately compared to both Jesus Christ and Richard Nixon as he took the stand. ...
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