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London Travel Tips For The Diamond Jubilee

Kensington Tours | Posted 05.19.2012

There are many of us not on the royal guest list who'll also want behold the spectacle of this monumental occasion firsthand. Here's how.

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Accused Russian Spy Admits Affair With British Boss

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Russia, Russian Spy Suspects, UK-Russia Relations, Russian Spy Accusation, Russian Spy Boss Affair, UK-Russia, Britain Russian Spy, Ekaterina Zatuliveter, Legislator Assistant Affair, Mike Hancock, London-United Kingdom, Russian Spying, World News

LONDON — An accused Russian spy who worked as an assistant for a British lawmaker went to court Tuesday in a bid to block her deportation &ndash...

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UBS And The Rogue Banking System

Julian Kossoff | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Ubs, Kweku Adoboli, Switzerland, Banking Crisis, Oswald Gruebel, Greek Debt Crisis, London-United Kingdom, UK News

There is stiff competition for the title of the world's worst bank but the Swiss shambles, UBS, must now have pushed aside the financial catastrophes that are Bank of America, Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and CitiBank, to sit atop the whole stinking heap.

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Social Media Used To Spread Britain's Riots

AP | PAISLEY DODDS and RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Social Media, Twitter, London Riots 2011, Social Networks, Social Networking, Facebook, London, London Riots, Social Media Networks, London-United Kingdom, Technology News

LONDON — Some of the text messages read like real-time rallying calls for rioters. "If you're down for making money, we're about to go hard in ...

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How BlackBerry—Not Twitter—Fueled The London Riots

TechCrunch Europe | Mike Butcher | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Twitter, Facebook, Twitter London Riots, London Riots, London, London-United Kingdom, Technology News

Over the weekend parts of London descended into chaos as riots and looting spread after a protest organised around the yet unexplained shooting of a m...

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Lily Allen Writing Songs For 'Bridget Jones' Musical

Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Bridget Jones's Diary, Lily Allen, Bridget Jones Musical, West End, Bridget Jones, Stephen Daldry, Broadway, Musicals, UK Arts, London, Helen Fielding, London-United Kingdom, Arts News

Lily Allen is heading to the stage, or writing for it anyways. Allen is penning the songs for the new musical version of Helen Fielding's'Bridget Jone...

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Marine's Memoir Commands Our Attention -- And Personal Investment

Greg Barrett | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Book Reviews, Author, Iraq War, Rye Barcott, War on Terror, Kenya, Memoir, Kibera, War Memoir, Nonfiction, New Books, London-United Kingdom, Greg Barrett, Books News

Books like Rye Barcott's It Happened on the Way to War come with a price that can't be easily discounted. You can't finish it and remain prone on the sofa.

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Rock, Riots, Rebellion and the Real Notting Hill

Shana Ting Lipton | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: United Kingdom, Rock and Roll, London-United Kingdom, Travel News

This neighborhood is alive, vibrant, colorful, stylish and oh so charming with its mostly Victorian townhouses. People chat on stoops, and rare and forgotten psychedelic tunes waft out of flats.

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Classic Works Get a Modern Makeover at London's Remastered

Richard MacKichan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Technology, Art Exhibitions, London-United Kingdom, Guernica, Visual Life Campaign, The Scream, Art Collective, Remastered Exhibition, Starry Starry Night, Jotta, Venus De Milo, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, Intel, Arts News

The covers record has long been a favorite of musicians, a chance to re-imagine or pay homage to songs of old. London's new Remastered exhibition is applying that same format to art.

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POLITICAL ART: Muslim Artist Makes 'Angelic' Tribute To London Attack

Mail Online | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London-Terror, London Artists, Tribute Art, Muslim-Artists, London Art, Tavistock Square, London Bombings, London Bombing 2005, London-United Kingdom, Arts News

A Muslim artist has sparked outrage with his depiction of the ripped-apart bus destroyed in the 7/7 terror attacks. The artwork shows four angels f...

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WATCH: 100 Years Of Fashion Jewelry Styles And Icons

Crane.tv | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fashion, Crane Tv, Carol Woolton, Vogue, Jewellery, Vogue Magazine, crane.tv, Stephen Webster, Chanel, London-United Kingdom, Jewellers, Arts News

null Fashion For Jewels, 100 Years of Styles and Icons by Carol Woolton the jewellery editor of ...

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Jersey City Artist Graham McNamara Talks About His Work, the Studio Tour, and the Business of Art

The Jersey City Independent | The Jersey City Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jersey City, Downtown Jersey City, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Greenville, Home News

The Jersey City Artists Studio Tour celebrates its 20th anniversary this weekend, with hundreds of artists exhibiting work in more than 90 locations i...

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Hot Shot: Head Games at Kinder Aggugini

NYMag.com | NYMag | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Home News

One thing about London — they're not afraid to take risks. ...

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Karachi tense after UK killing

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karachi-Pakistan, Pakistan, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Home News

Pakistan's biggest city comes to a near-standstill amid fears of unrest after a Pakistani politician is slain in London....

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Bridging the Gulf: Bahrain's big experiment with democracy

The Independent | Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manama City, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Home News

My arrangement with Khadija was that she would pick me up in her cab outside my hotel in Manama City. I wanted to meet her because women taxi drivers ...

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FRIEZE ART FAIR: Framing The Thames, A Guide To London's Frieze Week 2010

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frieze Art Fair, Art, Contemporary Art, Art Fairs, Artists, Events, London, Frieze London, London-United Kingdom, Arts News

Frieze Week is upon us! Europe's largest contemporary art fair has staked its tent in Regent's Park, bringing with it an estimated $375 million in wor...

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Middle Eastern Supercar Hoodlums Torment Posh Parts of London

The Car Connection | CarConnection | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Home News

Let's face it, this is hardly home invasion or drive-by shootings. But some of London's most expensive residential neighborhoods are feeling beset by...

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WikiLeaks: More US documents coming on Afghan war

Summit Daily News | Summit Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Britain, Afghanistan, Home News

LONDON (AP) - The release of some 91,000 secret U.S. military documents on the Afghanistan war is just the beginning, WikiLeaks founder Juli...

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London Fashion Week: Alexander McQueen's Memorial & Creative Genius in Jolly Old

Katherine Ensslen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London Fashion Week, Alexander McQueen, Fashion, Fashion Week, Bjork, Topshop, Eurostar, London, London-United Kingdom, Style News

While the memorial itself felt honest, real, and not too saccharine, it was also larger-than-life, which is nothing less than what we've all come to expect from anything involving McQueen.

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From Russia, With Love

Richard C. Morais | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Directors, Films, Stalin, London-United Kingdom, 12 Angry Men, Nikita Mikhalkov, Burnt by the Sun, Arts News

In real life, actor-director Nikita Mikhalkov is associated with nationalistic politics, but in his films at least he conveys a great deal of humanity and sympathy for individuals of all stripes victimized by Russia's bloody history.

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Why Armajaro Holdings' Attempt at Cornering the World Cocoa Market Is Destined to Fail

Minyanville | Minyanville | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Home News

English hedge fund manager Anthony Ward of Armajaro Holdings is attempting to corner the world cocoa market by buying 240 000 tonnes of cocoa beans -...

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ARCHITECTURE: Tanzanian Architect David Adjaye On Photography, Books, And Africa

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London Artists, Photography, Art, Photographers, Art News, Arts News, Art World, Art Reviews, Africa, Architecture, Tanzania, London, Interview, London-United Kingdom, David Adjaye, Arts News

Best known for his innovative, sometimes controversial structures, the award-winning architect David Adjaye has for the last 10 years been photographi...

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INTERNATIONAL ART: Ten Can't Miss Exhibits In London, On Now

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London Artists, Artists, Art, Art News, London, England, Museums, London-United Kingdom, Arts News

ARTINFO UK sends its picks for the top ten must-see shows in London. Exhibitions in this season range from sprawling retrospectives of greats like pa...

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Swimming With Models

Westword | Westword | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Home News

Anyone familiar with electronic music of the '90s and underground hip-hop will hear shades of Sole, Massive Attack, post-ambient Aphex Twin and Dead C...

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Black, White and Other... Worldwide

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Identity, Mixed Race, Multiracial, Racial Identity, Race, Ethnicity, Interracial Relationships, London-United Kingdom, World News

Even though the 21st century is seeing an exponential increase in reports of multiracial ancestry worldwide, exactly what makes a person multiracial remains a puzzling concept.

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