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  Prince
Charles sues newspaper over diary extracts
ABC:
Prince Charles is suing a newspaper in Britain's High Court after it published
extracts from his private journal last year. The Prince is taking the legal
action claim... |
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 Merkel
refuses to take sides in British EU rebate row
The Guardian:
Britain's hopes of a successful deal on the European budget to
crown its six-month EU presidency were left ominously in the
balance last night after a wary two-hour meeting in Downing
Street between T... |
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 Poland
and Brussels face clash of cultures
International
Herald Tribune: When Polish members of the European Parliament
erected an anti-abortion display in a parliamentary corridor
in Strasbourg last week, Ana Gomes, a Socialist legislator
from Portugal, felt she had to ac... |
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 French
violence hits fresh peak
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night of rioting in France has left 1,408 vehicles burnt out
and resulted in 395 arrests - the highest tolls yet in 11
nights of unrest. |
 Blair
prepares for reform drive
Tony Blair is set to use
one of his last conferences as Labour leader to call for greater reforms in
industry, health, education and welfare. Mr. Blair is arriving in Brighton to
prepare for the star... BBC News |
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 Iran
president stands by Israel remark
Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood by his call for Israel to be
"wiped off the map", as thousands of Iranians marched through Tehran
on Friday chanting "death to Israel" and "death to America". |
 Pioneering
effort aims to tackle global warming
In the north of
Scotland, preparations are under way for a power station that will test the
limits of science in attempting to tackle global warming. The plant, planned by
BP and Scottish and South... Gulf News |
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 Russia
blamed for children’s massacre
The
News International: Putin meets Beslan mothers. MOSCOW:
President Vladimir Putin was to hold a politically sensitive
meeting on Friday with mothers whose children died in the
Beslan school... |
 M&S
bans man-made fats from foods as health fears increase
The
Times: MARKS & SPENCER is to become the first big retailer to
ban man-made fats from its foods, pledging to remove them by
April, write Jonathan Leake and John Elliott. The move follows
concern about the s... |
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7th August 1987, swimmer Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim the Bering Strait between the USA and Russia. Despite the cold, she manages the feat in two hours and six minutes. Read today's international news
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Scots Historian
James Anderson is born on the 5th August 1728. A lawyer by
profession, Anderson writes some of the earliest books on
Scottish history including works on Mary Queen of Scots and
Scotland's relationship with England. For more famous Scots
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Today was a quiet day in the visit of George IV to Scotland
on the 19th August in 1822, the first visit of a reigning monarch to Scotland since Charles II in 1650. George's visit saw the birth of the modern image of Scotland, orchestrated by Sir Walter Scott who had persuaded George that he had legitimate Jacobite lineage. Highland dress suddenly became immensely fashionable and lowlanders across Scotland rushed to discover highland ancestry so they could sport the suddenly trendy kilt in varieties of dashing new tartan.
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