Slain London soldier was ‘loving father’ who served in Afghanistan
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The British soldier brutally killed in London in a suspected terror attack was a drummer in a military band who had served in Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.
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‘Sickening and barbaric’: Man killed in suspected London terror attack
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A man, reported to be a British soldier, was attacked and killed by knife-wielding assailants on a London street in broad daylight Wednesday in what is being investigated as an ideologically motivated terror attack.
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London marathon kicks off with a moment of silence
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Undaunted by the Boston Marathon bombings, big crowds lined the route of the London Marathon on Sunday to cheer on some 36,000 runners who paid their respects to the Boston victims by wearing black ribbons and holding a 30-second silence before the start.
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UK bids farewell to ‘Iron Lady’ Margaret Thatcher
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LONDON — Some had slept in the streets to guarantee a good spot to watch her body pass by on a gun carriage, but others said they were glad she was gone: Margaret Thatcher’s funeral proved as divisive as the 11 years she spent as Britain’s prime minister.
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Anti-Thatcher party in London draws hundreds
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Hundreds of opponents of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher partied in London’s Trafalgar Square to celebrate her death, sipping Champagne and chanting “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead.”
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No GPS! Aspiring London taxi drivers memorize a tangle of streets
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A student ponders while drawing routes on a map of London in a test centre in north London. All London black cab drivers are required to pass the Knowledge in order to be issued with a Hackney Carriage Licence. On average, between three and four years are needed to acquire this knowledge.
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‘Pure evil’: UK father of 17 killed six of his own kids in a house fire
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LONDON — A father was found guilty of starting a fire that killed six of his own children as part of a disastrous plot to frame his former mistress, in a horrific case that has prompted an emotional debate about Britain’s welfare system.
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Liver kept ‘alive’ outside body in medical first
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LONDON - A donated human liver has been kept alive, warm and functioning outside a human being on a newly-developed machine and then successfully transplanted into patients in a medical world first.
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‘Batman’ drops off suspect at police station, vanishes into night
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LONDON - A mystery man dressed as Batman demonstrated the same crime-fighting skills as the caped crusader when he handed over a suspect wanted for burglary in Britain.
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‘Fraud on a massive scale’: Europe’s horse meat scandal keeps on growing
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LONDON — When officials in Ireland made a routine check on a few hamburgers, what they found made them nervous: One burger was actually nearly one-third horse.
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Western hostages being held by Islamist militants at a gas plant in Algeria were feared to have been killed during a raid by Algerian forces Thursday. At least some hostages, however, reportedly escaped.
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More than 17,500 animals, including birds, fish, mammals, reptiles and amphibians are counted in the annual census at the London Zoo. The count is a compulsory part of the zoo’s license and the information is used for managing international breeding programs of endangered animals.
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More than three-quarters of British people thought the London Olympics did “a valuable job in cheering up a country in hard times,” according to a new survey.
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From bugs to blackouts, from Sandy to Syria, see the images that readers chose as their favorite pictures from the past year.
Source: MSNBC
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LONDON — A radio station is to pay at least $525,000 to a memorial fund in the name of a nurse found dead after two DJs duped her into putting them through to Duchess Kate’s hospital ward where she was being treated for an extreme form of morning sickness.
Source: worldnews.nbcnews.com
Step one: Talib Kweli comes in for rehearsal and sees Al Roker on a bike.
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