United Kingdon

U.K. Signals "Too Big To Fail" Banks May Be Broken Up

Wall Street Journal | Jeffrey Sparshot | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business


The WSJ reports (on-line): "The U.K.'s top treasury official Sunday said the government is starting a process to rebuild the country's banking system,...

Why We Are Subjected to Beatlemania, Again

Tamara Conniff | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment


Tamara Conniff

I love the Beatles, don't get me wrong. Paul McCartney in concert is a religious experience. But I'm over Beatlemania. I want it to stop. Why now? A little thing called copyright.

UK Enlisted Astrologer to Fight Hitler

AP | D'ARCY DORAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


LONDON — Desperate for a glimpse into Adolf Hitler's unpredictable mind, British spies hired an astrologer during World War II to write horoscop...

Rule, Britannia? UK To Lay Claim To Vast Swaths Of South Atlantic

The Guardian (U.K.) | Owen Bowcott | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Britain is preparing territorial claims on tens of thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean floor around the Falklands, Ascension Island and Ro...