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• Supermodel Campbell due in court over 'air rage' charges

  - 2008-06-20

  LONDON AFP — British supermodel Naomi Campbell is due to appear in court Friday after being charged with a string of offences following an incident at London's Heathrow airport. Campbell, 37, was taken off a British Airways plane by officers on April 3 after she boarded a flight to...

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• Supermodel Campbell charged over 'air rage': lawyer

  - 2008-05-29

  LONDON AFP — Supermodel Naomi Campbell has been charged with a string of offences after allegedly assaulting a police officer at London's Heathrow airport, her lawyer said Thursday. Campbell, 37, was taken off a British Airways plane by officers on April 3 after she boarded a flight to Los...

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• Britain 'twisted facts' in cultural offices row: Russia

  - 2008-01-18

  MOSCOW AFP — Russia's foreign ministry on Friday said Britain was to blame for a diplomatic crisis over the closure of two British cultural centres and had tried to "twist the facts." Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin welcomed the decision by London on Thursday to suspend work at the British...

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• British Council closes Russia offices to protect staff

  - 2008-01-17

  LONDON AFP — Britain accused Russia of "reprehensible" conduct Thursday and announced it was closing offices of the British Council because of a Russian secret police crackdown against the cultural body. "Our paramount consideration is the well-being of our staff and I feel we cannot continue our work without...

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• Unibet boss slams French gambling laws

  - 2007-11-01

  LONDON AFP — The head of online betting firm Unibet on Thursday called for an end to the French state's gaming monopoly, attacking the laws under which he is being investigated for illegal activities as "obsolete." Petter Nylander is currently on bail after being arrested in the Netherlands last...

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• MPs blast 'hounding' of Prince William's girl Kate

  - 2007-07-11

  LONDON AFP — Kate Middleton has been subjected to "persistent" paparazzi harassment, yet has not been protected by the British press' self-regulatory body, MPs said Wednesday. Middleton, recently reported to have got back together with Prince William, has called in the Press Complaints Commission about the way photographers have...

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• Middleton melee shows 'learnt nothing' from Diana: ex British PM

  - 2007-01-11

  LONDON AFP — Former prime minister Sir John Major has labelled as "grotesque" press harassment of Prince William's girlfriend, adding it showed "we have learnt nothing" from the death of Diana, princess of Wales. Major, Conservative premier between 1990 and 1997, wrote that the sight of photographers pursuing Kate Middleton...

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• Diana: Fayed wants full disclosure of royal interviews, correspondence

  - 2007-01-06

  LONDON AFP — The father of Princess Diana's last boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, reportedly wants confidential interviews with Prince Charles to be made public when a coroner's inquest opens on Monday. The Observer said Mohammed Al Fayed wants all interviews and correspondence collected by a British investigation into his son and...

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• Gay banker to sue HSBC for 5m pounds over sacking: reports

  - 2006-03-04

  LONDON AFP — Global banking giant HSBC is facing a five-million-pound (7.3-million-euro, 8.7-million-dollar) claim from a former employee, alleging he was sacked for being gay, British newspapers reported. Peter Lewis, former global head of equities trading in HSBC's corporate and investment bank division, will claim that his February, 2005...

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• 'Human condition' drives Oscar nominee Charlize Theron

  - 2006-02-21

  LONDON AFP — Charlize Theron, up for an Academy Award for her moving portrayal of a Minnesota iron miner, says exploring the human condition is what drives her career -- and that she couldn't care less about celebrity. On a visit to London to promote "North Country," the South...

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