British comedic actor/director Richard Ayoade, at the Sundance Film Fest. to promote “The Double,” which stars Jesse Eisenberg, claims he got a warm welcome from Robert Redford. (Jan. 19)
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The granddaughter of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, Zara Phillips, gave birth to a baby girl on Friday, the palace announced, a first child for the champion horse rider and her rugby-player husband Mike Tindall. The unnamed girl arrives five months after…
A British diplomat has fallen to his death from the top floor of a Romanian hotel, in what media said on Friday was an apparent suicide. Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed the man was a member of the diplomatic staff at its embassy in Romania but did…
Dunkin’ Brands Under the agreement, Dunkin’ Donuts will become the official coffee, tea and bakery partner for Liverpool FC, and Baskin-Robbins will become the official ice cream partner. Dunkin’ Brands Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: DNKN), the parent company…
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday promised tax breaks worth millions of pounds to local councils who encourage shale gas development, declaring the country was going “all out for shale”. Cameron announced that local authorities in England…
Several hundred demonstrators rallied outside a London police station Saturday to condemn an inquest which found that police lawfully shot dead a man in 2011, in a killing that sparked nationwide riots. They condemned the “perverse” jury verdict returned…
London shares fell on Thursday as supermarket chain Morrison’s plummetted after Christmas sales shrank and bookmakers tumbled in the wake of comments by David Cameron. The benchmark FTSE 100 index shed 30.44 points or 0.45 percent to close at 6,691.…
London shares opened modestly higher on Monday ahead of a slew of corporate announcements later this week on how British companies have fared over the key holiday period. The benchmark FTSE 100 index added 16.98 points or 0.25 percent to 6,747.68 points…
British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will warn that 2014 is to be the year of “hard truths” and public spending cuts when he sets out his plans for the year ahead on Monday. He will tell an audience in central England that there is “still…
EDINBURGH, Scotland — In the United States, where drinking alcohol in public is prohibited, police routinely turn a blind eye to people sipping from bottles wrapped in brown paper bags. A similar system has existed in the Scottish capital for almost…