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Two New Museums for Tintin and Magritte
It’s an old parlor game: Can you name 10 famous Belgians? Belgium is a tiny nation, and often the butt of its neighbors’ jokes, but it can claim two 20th-century artistic giants who would make it onto that list: Hergé — or at least his globetrotting comic strip character Tintin — and René Magritte, the subversive surrealist painter
British tabloid alleges Buckingham security breach
A British tabloid on Sunday accused Buckingham Palace of failing to protect Queen Elizabeth II after one of its reporters entered the royal garage without a security check.
Four British soldiers die in Afghanistan in a day
Four British soldiers have been killed in one day in separate attacks in Afghanistan, the British Ministry of Defense announced Friday. The deaths happened in three incidents in the southern Helmand province, the ministry said
Disabled veteran closes in on London Marathon finish
Last summer, Phil Packer was told he would probably never walk again.
Prince William ‘overcooked’ aircraft engine
Britain’s Prince William forced a Royal Air Force plane to be grounded for days after he flicked the wrong switch and "overcooked" the engine, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
RBS faces probe over ‘director threats’ claim
The UK’s financial watchdog is looking into allegations that non-executive directors at the Royal Bank of Scotland were pressured not to raise concerns about the troubled state of the bank’s finances.
Queen Elizabeth’s New Web Page
And it came to pass that Her Majesty the Queen of England decided her website needed a little juice-up. Thus, on the 13th day of February in the Year of our Lord 2009, she stood before her subjects and held aloft the royal remote control and behold, there appeared on a screen behind her what nobles and seers would come to call QE2.0, the new and improved official website of the British Monarchy.