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An image of the new Judicial Civil Robe for women. Britain's top judges are to get a new outfit, doing away with their traditional wigs and introducing colour-coded robes which one critic has likened to costumes from the hit sci-fi series Star Trek.

Beam me up, M'Lud: judges get 'Star Trek' outfits

AFP - 1 hour 11 minutes ago

LONDON (AFP) - Britain's top judges are to get a new outfit, doing away with their traditional wigs and introducing colour-coded robes which one critic likened to costumes from the hit sci-fi series Star Trek. More »

  • Shoppers at a department store on Oxford Street in central London. Inflation jumped to an annual rate of 3.0 percent in April from 2.5 percent in March, official data has showed.

    Surging inflation dampens rate cut hopes

    AFP - 1 hour 54 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - Inflation rates jumped way above the official target to an annual rate of 3.0 percent in April, data showed Tuesday, driven by soaring commodity prices and denting hopes of an interest rate cut to stimulate economic growth, analysts said. More »

  • Armed police patrol the new Terminal 5 building at London's Heathrow airport. Heathrow airport's managing director is to leave his job, nearly two months after the disastrous opening of Terminal 5, operator BAA has said.

    Heathrow boss quits after T5 fiasco

    AFP - 1 hour 55 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - Heathrow airport's managing director is to leave his job nearly two months after the disastrous opening of the new Terminal Five, operator BAA said Tuesday. More »

  • German-born physicist Albert Einstein, pictured here in 1948, described belief in God as

    Belief in God 'childish,' Jews not chosen people: Einstein letter

    AFP - 2 hours 59 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - Albert Einstein described belief in God as "childish superstition" and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday. More »

  • Chinese residents walk by a damaged road as they evacuate Beichuan, southwest China's Sichuan province. Britain is urgently investigating reports that 15 British tourists are missing in the zone hit by a massive earthquake in southwest China, the Foreign Office has said.

    Fifteen Britons reported missing in China quake

    AFP - Tuesday, May 13 01:06 pm

    LONDON (AFP) - The government is urgently investigating reports of British tourists missing in the zone hit by a massive earthquake in China, the Foreign Office said Tuesday. More »

  • A congestion charge sign in London. Nottingham City Council is planning to introduce an annual fee for businesses that provide staff car parking spaces in what officials have said is a previously untested move to cut congestion.

    Nottingham to charge firms for staff parking

    AFP - Tuesday, May 13 11:43 am

    LONDON (AFP) - Nottingham City Council is planning to introduce an annual fee for businesses that provide staff car parking spaces in what officials said Tuesday is a previously untried move to cut congestion. More »

  • BHP Billiton's OlympicDam copper and uranium operation at Roxby Downs in South Australia. British-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton has agreed to buy Anglo Potash for 284 million Canadian dollars (144 million pounds).

    BHP Billiton ties up Canadian potash deal

    AFP - Tuesday, May 13 09:20 am

    LONDON (AFP) - British-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton has agreed to buy Anglo Potash for 284 million Canadian dollars (144 million pounds). More »

  • A British university is to offer a degree in funerals, covering aspects of the profession from bereavement counselling to law, customer service and disposal of human remains

    Death by degree at British university

    AFP - Tuesday, May 13 09:17 am

    LONDON (AFP) - A British university is to offer a degree in funerals, covering aspects of the profession from bereavement counselling to law, customer service and the disposal of human remains. More »

  • Crowds of people shopping along London's Oxford Steet on Christmas Eve last year. A man was stabbed to death in Oxford Street during the rush hour in what was the latest deadly attack in a wave of gun and knife crime in the capital, police have said.

    Police hunt killer after man stabbed in Oxford Street

    AFP - Tuesday, May 13 09:00 am

    LONDON (AFP) - A man was stabbed to death in London's Oxford Street during the Monday evening rush-hour in what was the latest deadly attack in a wave of gun and knife crime in the capital, police said. More »

  • Antonio Brufau, chairman of Span's Repsol at a results press conference in Madrid in February. Spain's biggest oil group, Repsol, and British-Dutch peer Royal Dutch Shell are renegotiating their participation in a multi-billion dollar natural gas project in Iran but still want to take part, a Repsol internal source has said .

    Repsol, Shell renegotiating Iran gas deal: source

    AFP - Tuesday, May 13 08:52 am

    MADRID (AFP) - Spain's biggest oil group, Repsol, and British-Dutch peer Royal Dutch Shell are renegotiating their participation in a multi-billion dollar natural gas project in Iran, a Repsol source has said. More »

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