LONDON AFP — Britain, which long prided itself on a reputation for good manners, is becoming increasingly rude, according to a poll out Monday. Highly-paid footballers and celebrities are setting a bad example, according to the survey, which listed spitting and swearing as the most offensive forms of behaviour....
WASHINGTON AFP — A US court Friday turned down a claim by four British former detainees that they were tortured at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, saying accused officials acted as part of their jobs. "The alleged tortious wrongful conduct was incidental to the defendants' legitimate employment duties" to...
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LONDON AFP — More adults in Britain use social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace than in any other European country, a report published by its communications watchdog said Wednesday. Some 39 percent of Britons used the sites in 2006 compared with 22 percent of people in Italy,...
COLOMBO AFP — A home-made bomb has ripped through a crowded park in the Maldivian capital Male on Saturday, wounding 12 foreign nationals, tourism minister Mahamood Shougee told AFP. Two Britons, two Japanese and eight Chinese were wounded in the blast, in an area popular with holiday-makers, said Shougee....
LONDON AFP — Britons avoid going on holiday to places where they cannot speak the language, a study said Friday, reporting sometimes embarrassingly low linguistic skills. Only two percent of Britons can ask how to find the toilet in the main foreign language they learned at school, said the...
ON 27 June Tony Blair will climb into his heavily armoured limousine and be driven the short distance down the Mall to Buckingham Place where he will resign his seals of office to the Queen. It will be just a few weeks more than ten years since the Queen asked...
BAGHDAD AFP — The operational commander of US troops in Iraq on Thursday said officers are seeking local ceasefire deals with insurgents, after the deadliest month for American forces in two-and-a-half years. Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno, the number two US officer in Iraq, told reporters that about four-fifths of...
LONDON AFP — London is considering approaching Tehran for help in finding five Britons kidnapped in Baghdad, The Guardian newspaper said Friday, citing officials. The possibility was raised Thursday at a meeting of COBRA, the government's crisis cell, the daily said. Armed men wearing police uniforms abducted the...
BAGHDAD AFP — American forces raided Shiite militia strongholds in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday after the brazen daylight kidnapping of five British contractors from a finance ministry building. The Britons -- a consultant and his four armed bodyguards -- were snatched on Tuesday by a large group of gunmen...
BAGHDAD AFP — Iraqi officials scrambled Wednesday to get to the bottom of the brazen daylight kidnapping of five British contractors, who were snatched from a finance ministry building in Baghdad. "We are pursuing this case very vigorously I would say because the nature of this kidnapping is very...
Standing on the beach at Brighton in the rain is a gloomy thing to do, even with a stomach full of eggs and bacon. Drinking champagne from the bottle doesn't help much. It should feel like heaven, though - according to research published in the last week, these are the...
LONDON -- Their greatest scare, they recalled, came on the second day, when they were flown to Tehran and backed up against a prison wall while their Iranian captors fiddled with weapons, cocking rifles to make them fear for their lives. "We thought we were going to the...
An operation is under way today to rescue five Britons feared kidnapped in a remote part of Ethiopia. The Foreign Office confirmed the group included members of staff from the UK embassy in Addis Ababa or relatives of staff. The Britons are thought to be part of a...
LONDON AFP — Former royal rebel Zara Phillips, once known chiefly for her tongue stud and turbulent love life, was firmly back in the fold after riding off with BBC's sports personality of the year award. Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter secured nearly a third of the public's votes to win...
LONDON AFP — Inherent instability, poor safety equipment and an unqualified crew all contributed to the deaths of 58 people when a party boat capsized in Bahrain, a British coroner ruled. Fifteen Britons, including three with dual nationality, were among the dead, who were all foreign expatriates, when the Al-Dana...
LONDON AFP — Four out of ten Britons put their lives at risk by failing to call emergency services if they experience chest pain, often the first sign of a heart attack, according to a new study. "These statistics portray a very worrying, and perhaps very British, reluctance to call...
LONDON AFP — Despite the historic antipathy between Britain and France, one in five Britons wish they were born on the other side of the English Channel, according to a poll. In a survey of 1,010 people as part of the French Wines Week Report Monday, Britons were apparently charmed...
LONDON AFP — As rocketing property prices leave many struggling to buy, Britain's image as a nation of debtors was fuelled by a report that Britons hold a third of all unsecured debt in western Europe. The average Briton owes over 3,000 pounds (4467 euros, 5665 dollars), almost double the...
ISTANBUL AFP — Three weekend blasts in a Turkish Mediterranean seaside resort and a fourth in Istanbul injured a total of 27 people, among them 10 British holidaymakers, officials have said. One of the three blasts in the resort of Marmaris in southwest Turkey tore through a shuttle bus around...
