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Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks in India’s financial capital, killing at least 78 people and wounding at least 200, officials said Thursday. The gunmen
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British poet Carol Ann Duffy says she has been chosen as the country’s first female poet laureate.
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A first edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” book sold for about 40,000 pounds ($60,000) Thursday, an auctioneer said.
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British troops have ended six years of combat operations in Iraq, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Thursday, praising his military’s accomplishments and...
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A British auction house says it is offering Darwin fans a chance to buy a first edition of the famed naturalist’s groundbreaking book.
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An extremely rare Roman dish made of translucent blue glass pieces was put on display Wednesday at the Museum of London in Docklands.
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The number of visitors to Britain fell in the three months to November, and Britons took fewer trips abroad, according to official figures that suggest the global...
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Britons took out fewer mortgages and reined in spending in October as the economic downturn intensified, the Bank of England said Monday.
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband says Britain won’t pay a ransom for two Britons being held by pirates off the east African coast.
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