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- Nazi fears stopped me snorting cocaine: Mirren
- LONDON AFP — Oscar-winner Helen Mirren admitted she loved snorting cocaine and only stopped due to the capture of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, in an magazine interview out this month. The respected British actress, 63, who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in...
- Research articles 2008-08-31
- Victoria's secret: queen's underwear sells at British auction
- LONDON AFP — A giant pair of bloomers which belonged to Queen Victoria sold for nine times their estimate at an auction in Britain Wednesday. The 50-inch (127-centimetre) waist knickers, which date from the 1890s, sold for 4,500 pounds (5,700 euros, 8,900 dollars) but had been expected to fetch...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- Cost of British royal family rising: accounts
- LONDON AFP — Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family cost British taxpayers 66 pence (0.83 euros, 1.31 dollars) per person last year, according to official accounts released Friday. The 40-million-pound total from the year to March 31 is up from 37.3 million the previous year and represents an...
- Research articles 2008-06-27
- Britain's plumed Prince William becomes a knight
- WINDSOR, England AFP — Prince William, wearing an ostrich plumed hat and velvet robes, on Monday was made a Royal Knight of the Garter in a ceremony full of regal pomp. The prince, second in line to the throne, was formally appointed to the most senior order of British...
- Research articles 2008-06-16
- Queen honours entertainers
- LONDON AFP — Queen Elizabeth II honoured famous Britons from the world of entertainment and arts on Saturday for their career achievements, as part of celebrations marking her 82nd birthday. The queen's birthday was on April 21, but it is only celebrated officially in June when the weather is...
- Research articles 2008-06-14
- Roddick happy to fly under the radar at Wimbledon
- LONDON AFP — Andy Roddick insists he is happy to go into Wimbledon as an underdog after Rafael Nadal ended his reign at Queen's. Roddick knows Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic will all be ahead of him in the pre-Wimbledon betting, but the American doesn't care if he's...
- Research articles 2008-06-14
- Nadal overpowers Roddick to reach first Queen's final
- LONDON AFP — Rafael Nadal ended Andy Roddick's reign at Queen's as the Spaniard reached his first final at the pre-Wimbledon tournament on Saturday. Nadal, the top seed, will meet Novak Djokovic or David Nalbandian in Sunday's final following his 7-5, 6-4 win over reigning champion Roddick. Just...
- Research articles 2008-06-14
- Tennis: Nadal makes Queen's semi-final breakthrough
- LONDON, June 13, 2008 AFP — French Open champion Rafael Nadal reached the Queen's semi-finals for the first time after out-lasting Ivo Karlovic in a gruelling three-set clash on Friday. Nadal, the top seed, who had never gone beyond the last eight at Queen's in his two previous visits...
- Research articles 2008-06-13
- Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips to miss Beijing
- LONDON AFP — World eventing champion Zara Phillips, the granddaughter of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, has withdrawn from the Beijing Olympics due to an injury to her horse Toytown, she said Wednesday. An injury to the same horse also led to Phillips missing the 2004 Athens Olympics. "I...
- Research articles 2008-06-11
- Roddick survives slow start to Queen's record bid
- LONDON AFP — Andy Roddick recovered from a slow start to get his bid for a record fifth Queen's Club title up and running with a 6-7 (6/8), 6-1, 6-1 victory over Robby Ginepri on Wednesday. Roddick, the reigning Queen's champion, was back in action for the first time...
- Research articles 2008-06-11
- Tennis ace Nadal back in the groove on grass
- LONDON AFP — Rafael Nadal won his first singles match since destroying Roger Federer in the French Open final as the Spaniard advanced to the third round at Queen's Club on Wednesday. Nadal was back in action just three days after his astonishing three-set rout of world number one...
- Research articles 2008-06-11
- Queen of the South face giants Rangers in Cup final
- GLASGOW AFP — Stephen Dobbie may be a life-long Rangers fan but on Saturday he hopes to put them to the sword when he lines up for Queen of the South in the Scottish Cup final at Hampden. The 25-year-old travelled to Manchester to cheer on the Ibrox side...
- Research articles 2008-05-24
- Queen Associates Wins National Award - Ranked in Top 10
- Honored by Michael E. Porter, Leading Harvard Business School Expert BOSTON -- Queen Associates, Inc, QAi, a Charlotte, NC based company, was nationally recognized by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City ICIC and Inc. Magazine as one of the 100 fastest-growing businesses in inner city communities. Ranked 10th...
- Research articles 2008-05-13
- Humanity and technology fuse in global film event
- CULVER CITY, California AFP — Humanity and digital technology broke down cultural walls on Saturday during the first-ever global film festival, dubbed Pangea Day, which sought to replace conflict with understanding. Millions of people at venues around the world simultaneously watched a live four-hour broadcast of short independent films,...
- Research articles 2008-05-11
- Humanity and technology fuse in global Pangea Day film event
- CULVER CITY, California AFP — Humanity and digital technology broke down walls between cultures on Saturday during a first-ever Pangea Day film event aimed at replacing conflict with understanding. Millions of people at venues around the world simultaneously watched a live four-hour broadcast of short independent films, some made...
- Research articles 2008-05-10
- Orange makeover for Dutch on Queen's Day
- AMSTERDAM AFP — Orange was the order of the day as half-a-million Dutch citizens paid tribute in Amsterdam on Wednesday to their monarch in annual Queen's Day celebrations. Many of Queen Beatrix's loyal subjects were decked out from head to toe in orange -- the royal colour -- as...
- Research articles 2008-04-30
- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II turns 82
- LONDON AFP — Britain's Queen Elizabeth II quietly celebrated her 82nd birthday Monday, amid a stirring of republican sentiment in Australia and proposals at home for reforming the monarchy. The queen was to mark the occasion with a quiet dinner at Windsor Castle, west of London, a Buckingham Palace...
- Research articles 2008-04-21
- School of hard rocks: Queen guitarist becomes uni chief
- LONDON AFP — Rock star and astrophysics expert Brian May took up his post as a university chancellor on Monday, warning that science funding cuts risked damaging Britain's position on the world stage. The Queen guitarist, who last year completed a long-abandoned doctoral thesis on interplanetary dust, said he...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- BEAUTIFUL SOUTH!
- RANK outsiders Queen of the South reached their first Scottish Cup Final after an astonishing game. The First Division side have waited 89 years for their day in the sun at Hampden - and how they deserve it. Incredibly, Gordon Chisholm's side led four...
- Research articles 2008-04-13
- Historic role relished as Queens rewrite the rules Southerners make
- HAPPY the people whose annals are blank in the history books. So said Thomas Carlyle, Dumfriesshire's most celebrated literary son, a man whose fame as a critic and essayist is shaded only by his reputation as an cantankerous old git. And as Carlyle died almost 40 years before...
- Research articles 2008-04-13
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