| April 27, 2008 | - In Basra, Iraq, a 17-year-old girl, Rand Abdel-Qader, was stomped, suffocated, and stabbed to death by her father, who accused her of having an affair with a British soldier. Local police arrested the father but released him without charge after two hours. “Not much can be done when we have an honor-killing case,” said police sergeant Ali Jabbar. “You are in a Muslim society and women should live under religious laws.” Rand's mother divorced the killer and went into hiding.
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Guardian
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| April 18, 2008 | -
President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met and discussed the “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom. “If it wasn't a personal relationship,” said Bush, “I wouldn't be inviting the man to a nice hamburger or something. Well done, I might add.”
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Washington Post
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| March 14, 2008 | - A British fan of Scarlett Johansson will pay $2,030 per minute to go on a date with the actress to the U.S. premiere of her new film “He's Just Not That Into You,” with proceeds going to the charity Oxfam.
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BBC
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| March 12, 2008 | - It was reported that the richest man in Great Britain, the Duke of Westminster, was a client of the same high-end prostitution agency as Eliot Spitzer. The Duke allegedly haggled over pricing, requested sex without a condom, and bored prostitute Zana Brazdek with conversation “about the Army, going to Afghanistan, and bin Laden.”
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DailyNews
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| March 9, 2008 | - ThruVision, a British firm, unveiled a surveillance camera, developed using research into dying stars, that can see through people's clothes. They claim that the technology does not reveal physical body details but could be used to detect materials such as explosives or cocaine by distinguishing among the low levels of electromagnetic radiation emitted by all things everywhere.
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Yahoo! News
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| March 1, 2008 | - Prince Harry of Wales, once photographed dressed as a Nazi, was called home after press accounts revealed that he was serving as a British
Army forward air controller in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. “We ask God to enable our beloved brothers in Taliban to seize this priceless booty,” wrote user Sweeping Army on an Internet jihadist message board, “because nothing would break the heart of his grandmother [more] than if she lost him. My dear brothers in Allah, carry on provoking to kidnap this precious infidel.”
| Source:
The Guardian
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| February 27, 2008 | -
British researchers hypothesized that a form of spongiform encephalopathy—akin to mad cow disease and transmitted by cannibalism—killed off the Neanderthals.
| Source 1:
Space.com
Source 2:
Discovery.com
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| February 1, 2008 | - In Britain retail chain Woolworths withdrew from sale a bed for six-year-old girls called the Lolita Midsleeper Combi after receiving complaints from parents. “We had to look it up on Wikipedia,” said a store spokesman. “But we certainly know who she is now.”
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Shop pulls &lq;Lolita&rq; bed for young girls
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| January 31, 2008 | -
British scientists announced that it would soon be possible to convert female bone marrow into viable sperm cells, hastening the obsolescence of men.
| Source:
Death of the father: British scientists discover how to turn women's bone marrow into sperm
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| January 16, 2008 | -
British researchers determined that children universally dislike clowns, finding them “unknowable.”
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| January 10, 2008 | - A British artist exhibited 55 “beautiful and delicate” canvases of his ejaculate sprinkled with carbon dust,
| Source:
Islington Gazette
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| December 27, 2007 | - For the first time since the 1800s the average Briton was earning more than the average American, even though the pound was at an all-time low against the euro.
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Reuters UK
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| December 2, 2007 | - A 3.3 pound truffle sold for $330,000 at an auction held simultaneously in Macau, London, and Florence. The winning bidder, Macau casino owner Stanley Ho, outbid the British artist Damien Hirst and Sheikh Bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi.
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Giant truffle sets record price
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| November 30, 2007 | - In Khartoum, thousands of Sudanese protesters armed with clubs and knives called for the execution of Gillian Gibbons, a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam after she permitted her students to name their class teddy bear “Muhammad”; Gibbons, pardoned by the president of Sudan, was released from jail and fled to England.
| Source:
Thousands in Sudan Call for British Teddy Bear Teacher's Execution
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| November 24, 2007 | - The Interfaith Rainbow Coalition Against Homosexuality in Uganda protested a summit of British Commonwealth leaders in Kampala. “I asked President Museveni to get us an island on Lake Victoria and we take these homosexuals and they die out there,” said Sheikh Ramathan Shaban Mubajje of an earlier meeting he had with Uganda's head of state. “If they die there, then we shall have no more homosexuals in the country.”
| Source:
365Gay
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| November 22, 2007 | - The British government admitted that it had lost computer disks containing the personal information of more than one third of its citizens.
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New York Times
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| November 15, 2007 | -
British scientists working with negative index metamaterials said that they were developing a technique that could someday be used to capture a rainbow.
| Source:
University of Surrey
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| November 7, 2007 | - Voters in Great Britain decided that their most ridiculous law was one that makes it illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.
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BBCnews.com
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| November 4, 2007 | -
British police documents revealed that the DNA of suspects accused of crimes such as picking wildflowers or defacing coins will be stored for life in a national database.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| November 2, 2007 | -
Rudy Giuliani conceded that although his campaign's statistic for prostate cancer survival rates in Britain was seven years old and 30 points off, Americans should still be wary of “socialized medicine.” “If we ever got to Hillarycare in this country,” said Giulani, “Canadians will have nowhere to go for health care.”
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| October 17, 2007 | - A British restaurant began serving gray squirrel pancakes.
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Daily Mail
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| October 17, 2007 | - A British restaurant began serving gray squirrel pancakes.
| Source:
Daily Mail
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| October 8, 2007 | -
British clergy were condemning the nomination of video game “Resistance: Fall of Man,” which features a fire-fight scene set in Manchester Cathedral, for an award. “For a global manufacturer to recreate one of our great cathedrals with photo-realistic quality,” said the Bishop of Manchester, “and encourage people to have gun battles in the building is beyond belief and highly irresponsible.”
| Source:
vnunet.com
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| October 7, 2007 | - In England, American gray squirrels were bullying diminutive, mild-mannered indigenous red squirrels.
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NYT
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| September 25, 2007 | -
British researchers studying intelligence announced that men were disproportionately represented in both the top and bottom two percentiles.
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Hindu
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| September 18, 2007 | - A British man named Anthony Anderson was arrested for urinating on a 57-year-old woman as she lay dying of pancreatic failure. “This,” yelled Anderson as he was filmed, “is YouTube material.”
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BBC News
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| September 16, 2007 | - A new British poll estimated that 1.2 million people had died so far in the war, and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan wished that politicians would admit that the war was “largely about
oil.”
| Source 1:
Times
Source 2:
Guardian
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| September 3, 2007 | - The British government complained that the Taliban was using weapons that had been made in China,.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| August 22, 2007 | -
Scientists in England determined that Tyrannosaurus rex would have been able to outrun a professional soccer player.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 19, 2007 | - It emerged that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will allow the National Security Agency to intercept telephone calls, emails, and other Internet communications made by British citizens across American networks.
| Source:
Guardian
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| August 1, 2007 | - Seventy-six U.S. senators had visited Iraq, and 3 percent of Americans approved of how Congress was handling the war, which was costing the United States and Great Britain more than $4,000 each second.
| Source 1:
The Hill
Source 2:
Zogby
Source 3:
Daily Mail
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| July 26, 2007 | -
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Britain of “colonial thinking” for demanding the extradition of Andrei Lugovoi, who is suspected of murdering former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| July 26, 2007 | - A 70-year-old British grandmother was convicted in the honor killing of her son's estranged wife.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| July 16, 2007 | - In Britain a six-year-old boy hanged himself with a skipping rope.
| Source:
The Sun
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| July 15, 2007 | - Osama bin Laden's son Omar announced that he had taken a 51-year-old British grandmother as his second wife.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 12, 2007 | - The British military insisted that it had not released man-eating badgers in Basra.
| Source:
BBC
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| July 2, 2007 | - In Nigeria, where the price of machetes has dropped by 50 percent since the end of the April elections, a kidnapped British three-year-old was released after four days.
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
Reuters
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| July 2, 2007 | - His successor Gordon Brown proposed stripping British prime ministers of the power to declare war.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| June 25, 2007 | - The Gaza kidnappers of British
journalist Alan Johnston released a video of Johnston wearing an explosives vest, which he says will be detonated if force is used to try to free him.
- The Gaza kidnappers of British
journalist Alan Johnston released a video of Johnston wearing an explosives vest, which he says will be detonated if force is used to try to free him.
| Source:
BBC
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| June 22, 2007 | - Lydia Playfoot, a 16-year-old English schoolgirl, went to the High Court to protest her school's ban on wearing “purity rings” (used to symbolize chastity), which she characterized as discrimination against Christians.
- Lydia Playfoot, a 16-year-old English schoolgirl, went to the High Court to protest her school's ban on wearing “purity rings” (used to symbolize chastity), which she characterized as discrimination against Christians.
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BBCNews
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| June 13, 2007 | - “Today's media,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair said, “hunts in packs. In these modes it is like a feral beast just tearing people and reputations to bits.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| June 13, 2007 | - A 13-year-old British boy ended his ten-year vow of silence, which began when his mother forced him to have his tonsils removed, with the words “thank you.”
| Source:
Daily Mail
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| June 12, 2007 | - Sony apologized to the Church of England after a gun-filled computer game set in a British cathedral prompted the church to accuse the company of “virtual desecration.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| June 4, 2007 | -
Britain's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds banned the word “cock” from its website. “Tit” and “swallow,” however, were still permitted.
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News.com.au via Nerve.com
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| June 2, 2007 | - A family in England claimed that they were being chased out of their neighborhood because they are redheads.
| Source:
BBC
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| May 28, 2007 | - In Britain, anonymous sources close to Queen Elizabeth II reported that the monarch was “exasperated and frustrated” with the legacy of the outgoing prime minister; in particular, she was said to be deeply concerned about Blair's actions in Iraq and Afghanistan and the outlawing of fox hunting.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| May 10, 2007 | -
British prime minister Tony Blair announced that he will resign next month after ten years in power. Much speculation ensued about what the 54-year-old Blair would do next, and it was thought that he might establish a foundation to fight poverty in Africa. “[Blair] was the worst thing that ever happened to Africa,” said Bright Matonga, the deputy information minister of Zimbabwe. “We hope that the children of Iraq and Afghanistan he is killing everyday will haunt him for the rest of his life.”
| Source 1:
Daily Mail
Source 2:
The Australian
Source 3:
Guardian
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| May 3, 2007 | - An Irish teenager, who has been told by doctors that her baby will not survive more than a few days after birth, appeared in the High Court in Dublin to apply for the right to travel to Britain for an abortion.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| May 3, 2007 | - A 68-year-old grandmother in England was the runner-up for “txt laureate” for writing a love poem to her husband. “O hart tht sorz,” she wrote, “My luv adorz, He mAks me liv, He mAks me giv, Myslf 2 him, As my luv porz.”
| Source:
The Register
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| May 2, 2007 | - American officials denied reports of a plan to require entry visas for British citizens of Pakistani origin.
| Source:
Guardian Unlimited
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| May 1, 2007 | -
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that he will announce his resignation next week.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| April 16, 2007 | -
Britain banned the phrase “war on terror.”
| Source:
Sky News
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| April 16, 2007 | -
Prince William broke up with his girlfriend via telephone.
| Source:
Daily Mirror
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| April 4, 2007 | - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released 15 abducted British
marines.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
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| April 4, 2007 | -
British
scientists were “baffled” by the discovery of five-footed frogs.
| Source:
Breitbart.com
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| April 3, 2007 | - Durex, a contraceptive company located in Knutsford, England, began assembling a “massive” panel of volunteer testers for its condom and lubricant products.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 2, 2007 | -
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that he was disgusted with Iran's treatment of 15 Royal Navy hostages.
| Source:
Spiegel Online
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| March 26, 2007 | - The British Ministry of Defence found that a study which had placed Iraq's civilian death toll at 655,000 was “robust.”
| Source:
BBC
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| March 23, 2007 | -
British troops pulled out of Basra; two days later, rival Shiite factions began battling over a government building that had been been evacuated by the military.
| Source:
CS Monitor
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| March 23, 2007 | - In the Iraqi territory of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, Iranian forces captured and detained 15 members of the British Royal Navy.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| February 23, 2007 | - It was revealed that the British Ministry of Defense once hired psychics to find Osama bin Laden, and Defense Minister Des Browne announced that Prince Harry, the 22-year-old son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, who is third in line to the throne, would be deployed to Iraq.
| Source 1:
Daily Mail
Source 2:
Washington Post
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| February 20, 2007 | -
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that he would bring home more than 1,600 of the 7,100 British troops in Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney said that the withdrawal was “an affirmation that there are parts of Iraq where things are going pretty well”; he also said that breaking “the will of the American people” was Al Qaeda's strategy. “They win because we quit.” “Dick was always very realistic,” said Kenneth Adelman, an arms-control official in the Reagan Administration and friend to Cheney. “I don't really understand how month after month he gets briefings showing Iraq's getting worse and worse, and he engages in all this happy talk.”
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Fox News
Source 3:
Washington Post
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| February 14, 2007 | - After studying 21 industrialized nations, the U.N. concluded that Dutch children were the most happy, and British and American children the least.
| Source:
BBC
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| February 8, 2007 | - And “farcical, saucy, and somewhat tragic, man-breasts” were deemed ideal “fodder” for the British tabloid media.
| Source:
Times online
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| February 7, 2007 | - A British
Muslim high school was under criticism for using textbooks that depicted Jews as apes and Christians as pigs and predicted that all non-believers would be condemned to hellfire.
| Source:
This London
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| February 3, 2007 | -
Britain's top female paraglider was mauled by eagles. “Eagles,” said a colleague, “are the sharks of the air.”
| Source:
NZPA via stuff.co.nz
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| January 15, 2007 | - In England, Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, gave birth to a naturally conceived child.
| Source:
AP via Cnn.com
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| January 6, 2007 | - A British man died of a heart attack when ambulance crews could not be dispatched because they were on an E.U.-mandated lunch break.
| Source:
The Sun
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| December 14, 2006 | -
British
geneticists investigating the case of a 10-year-old Pakistani boy who could walk on burning coals announced that they had discovered a gene that influences the perception of pain. They could not examine the boy directly because he had died after leaping off a roof to impress his friends.
| Source:
NYT
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| December 14, 2006 | - The British police concluded that Princess Diana's death was an accident.
| Source:
NYT
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| November 21, 2006 | -
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that state-sponsored supernannies would be dispatched to deal with the United Kingdom's problem children. “Life isn't normal if you've got 12-year-olds out every night,” said Mr. Blair, “drinking and creating nuisance on the street with their parents not knowing or even caring.”
| Source:
Guardian
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| November 17, 2006 | - Forty firefighters in the United Kingdom carried out a two-hour rescue operation to bring a sheep down from a ledge.
| Source:
Sky News
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| November 14, 2006 | - A British man testified that he picked up his ten-month-old niece by the ankles and smashed her to death because there was within him a “beast that shows his ugly head every now and then.” The beast, he said, told him to make her feel “a little bit of pain.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| November 12, 2006 | - Three U.S. soldiers, four British soldiers, and 159 Iraqis were killed on a Sunday.
| Source 1:
Aljazeerah.info
Source 2:
The Toronto Star
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| November 2, 2006 | - Channel 4, Britain's second largest television network, announced that Google's U.K. advertising revenues would outstrip the broadcaster's own by some hundred million pounds this year. “People need to wake up and realize that this is not just a cyclical issue,” said the network's chief executive. “There is deep structural change, rather like global warming.”
| Source:
Times of London
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| November 1, 2006 | - Iran criticized Australia, Bahrain, Britain, France, Italy, and the United States for carrying out a practice naval exercise in the Persian Gulf, then announced ten days of “Great Prophet II” war games.
| Source 1:
AP via International Herald Tribune
Source 2:
Breitbart
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| November 1, 2006 | - Two of the suspects arrested in Britain in August for plotting to blow up U.S.-bound airplanes were released due to insufficient proof.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
CNN
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| October 26, 2006 | -
England's
Queen Elizabeth II strained her back.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 23, 2006 | - In Basra, Prince Philip of Britain assured the troops “at the sharp end” that “a great many locals do very much appreciate what you are trying to do for them.”
| Source:
New Zealand Herald
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| October 17, 2006 | - A Gypsy pressure group filed suit to stop British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest film from being shown in Germany. The group accuses him of antiziganism, or hostility to gypsies; Cohen's fictional alter-ego Borat claimed that Gypsies had molested his horse.
| Source 1:
Reuters via Yahoo
Source 2:
Wikipedia
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| October 17, 2006 | - Scotland Yard and the British Home Office misplaced two “extremely dangerous” terrorism suspects. One escaped from a secure psychiatric unit, and neither can be named for legal reasons.
| Source:
Guardian online
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| October 16, 2006 | - Americans were claiming political asylum in Britain.
| Source:
Sun Online
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| October 8, 2006 | - A study suggested that an increasing number of British students are working as prostitutes in order to pay their university tuition.
| Source:
timesonline.co.uk
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| October 4, 2006 | - The British Minister of State for Public Health said that pregnant British teens, seeking to ease their labor pains, were smoking to reduce the birth weight of their babies.
| Source:
BBC News
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| October 4, 2006 | -
Britain's Prince William played bingo.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 22, 2006 | - A British major described the Royal Air Force as “utterly, utterly useless.”
| Source:
The Independent
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| September 20, 2006 | -
British Home Secretary John Reid declared that England's “fight is not with Muslims generally.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 20, 2006 | - A pedigree bull mastiff deefer from Nottingham, England, underwent emergency surgery to have two pairs of ladies' underwear removed from his small intestine.
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 17, 2006 | - A British man died when he fell off a cliff while flying his kite.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| September 13, 2006 | - Fertility clinics in Britain were low on sperm.
| Source:
BBC News
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| September 5, 2006 | -
Britain's Royal Preston Hospital unveiled the “Inter-Faith Gown,” a hospital garment modeled on the Muslim burka.
| Source:
Breitbart.com via the Drudge Report
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| September 5, 2006 | -
English
scientists were conducting experiments to determine whether sea horses could be tempted into adultery.
| Source:
New York Post via Nerve.com
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| September 3, 2006 | - A British professor announced that five-year-old girls were worried about their weight.
| Source:
AFP via Breitbart
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| August 31, 2006 | - Miss England, an Uzbek-born Muslim, declared that stereotyping leads to terror.
| Source:
Daily Mail
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| August 30, 2006 | - It was reported that the average British woman spends two and a half years on her hair during her lifetime.
| Source:
Daily Mail
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| August 28, 2006 | - At least 200 Iraqis were killed in bombings, rocket attacks, and shootings, as were 19 American and British soldiers.
| Source 1:
CNN
Source 2:
NPR
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| August 24, 2006 | - An English woman capable of climaxing forty times per day was convicted of benefit fraud.
| Source:
The Times of London
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| August 22, 2006 | - In Diss, England, Gwen Dorling, 102, enjoyed the services of a stripper for her birthday.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 10, 2006 | - Under pressure from U.S. officials, authorities in the United Kingdom announced the discovery of a terrorist plot to blow up as many as ten passenger planes in the air, possibly by using explosive liquids hidden inside sports-drink bottles. Twenty-one suspects were arrested. Britain raised its threat level to “critical”; the United States raised its threat level “for all commercial flights flying from the United Kingdom to the United States” to “red.” Carry-on luggage was banned on flights in and out of Heathrow airport, and classical and traditional musicians, who normally keep their fragile instruments with them while traveling, were forced to check them as baggage and risk damage. “These restrictions,” said a cellist, “are a disaster for me.” Bagpipers planning to attend the World Pipe Band Championships were particularly worried about the effects of the ban. Prime Minister Tony Blair, on vacation in the Caribbean, thanked U.K. security services for their “hard work,” and President George W. Bush, who had been monitoring the progress of the investigation while on vacation in Crawford, Texas (where he was reading The Stranger, by Albert Camus), flew to Wisconsin and called the arrests “a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists.”
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
BBC News
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| August 2, 2006 | -
England's Alton Towers theme park canceled “National Muslim Fun Day.”
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 1, 2006 | -
English Prime Minister
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