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The article focuses on how the British government has allowed Russian oligarchs to spend large sums on perks like private chefs and chauffeurs, despite having their bank accounts ostensibly frozen, raising questions about the effectiveness of the UK's new financial sanctions system.

Features a line of paint-by-numbers wallpapers designed by Jenny Wilkinson for 2Jane, a group of British designers, that users can color for themselves.

The article reports on the debate in Great Britain on whether to use paper or plastic for monetary purposes as of December 19, 2013. The impact that Canada's use of polymer plastics for money has on Great Britain's currency, including in regard to the plastic bank notes used by the British, is discussed.

Reports on the inquiry into how a secret antiterrorism papers drawn up by police was mislaid or lost near Heathrow Airport in Great Britain.

De La Rue, which helps make paper currency for 150 countries, said Tuesday that the British authorities had been called in to investigate ''deliberately falsified'' tests on paper used to make bank notes. The announcement came just over a month after James A. Hussey stepped down as chief executive, taking responsibility for ''certain quality and production irregularities'' at a paper plant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the development of the British weekly print newspaper "The New European," created by the newspaper group Archant, including its catering to a niche market and chief content officer Matt Kelly's perspective on the demand for the newspaper.

The article focuses on the denouncement of Jewish newspapers in Great Britain, "The Jewish Chronicle," "the Jewish News," and "The Jewish Telegraph," against the Labour Party over accusations of anti-Semitism.

The article reports on the efforts of companies in Great Britain to stop the use of plastics as of 2018 including fast food chain McDonald's Corp. which will phase out plastic straws across its restaurants.

The article reports on the move of Prime Minister David Cameron of Great Britain to release information from his tax returns over leaked information on offshore companies in Panama Papers which showed that Cameron's father was a director of an offshore trust that did not pay British taxes in 2016.

The author presents a review of the exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design," at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

The article reports on the revelation of the British government papers which includes records of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's cabinet towards U. S. Prime Minister Ronald Reagan. It says that the documents offered new insights into fractious relationship with France. It tells that the toughest document was the diplomatic cable from Britain's ambassador in Washington at the time Sir Nicholas Henderson railing with President François Mitterand over French-made Exocet missiles.

Focuses on the plan of a group of journalists and managers in Great Britain to start a daily newspaper called "The World". Amount of money needed to start the publication; Editorial staff for the paper; Target market for the daily.

A London lawyer closely involved in pursuing cases involving Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids said Friday that his firm was suing The Times of London, also part of Mr. Murdoch's News International group, over e-mail hacking for which the newspaper has apologized. The suit concerns a case in which a reporter who is no longer with the newspaper hacked into the e-mail account of a police detective who ran an award-winning blog. The claim, said the lawyer, Mark Lewis, ''is not just on misuse of information or privacy grounds, but also a claim for what lawyers would call deceit,'' based on denials the newspaper made. A spokeswoman for News International confirmed the lawsuit had been filed but declined to comment further. The blogger's true identity was not publicly known until an article in The Times of London in 2009 identified him. At a hearing in February into press ethics and practices, James Harding, the editor of The Times of London, apologized on behalf of the newspaper, reversing its earlier denials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Metropolitan Police Service is seeking a court order to force The Guardian to disclose confidential information about its reporting on the phone hacking scandal, The Guardian reported on Friday. Among the materials being sought are documents that would reveal the sources for articles by the reporters Amelia Hill and Nick Davies, including those that accused The News of the World of illegally intercepting the voicemail of a girl who was kidnapped and then murdered. The police say that Ms. Hill and Mr. Davies may have violated a law that forbids the dissemination of potentially damaging material leaked illegally by government officials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The private investigator who went to prison for his role in the phone hacking scandal at The News of the World said Friday that he had acted on instructions from the newspaper. The investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, was imprisoned in 2007 after the British authorities discovered that he had gained access to voice mail messages on telephones belonging to members of the royal family and others who were the subjects of articles in The News of the World. Senior officials at the newspaper's parent company, News International, a British unit of the News Corporation, insisted for years that the hacking scandal was essentially limited to Mr. Mulcaire and a ''rogue'' reporter with whom he worked, Clive Goodman, who was also imprisoned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

South Africa was already independent from Britain when I was growing up in Cape Town, but in matters of children's literature, it was still entirely in thrall to colonialism. I was raised on a diet of boarding and ballet schools, sports days and summer hols, of aspiring dancers trudging through rainy London and riding horses over the purple heather of the Scottish Highlands. There were stern Russian dancing masters and flighty French teachers, and -- a particularly British strain that ran through all of this -- a solemn message. If you wanted to be a ballerina or anything else, talent and looks weren't enough. There had to be grit and perseverance too. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the business losses and circulation decline for various periodicals and newspapers in Great Britain in 2005 citing trends in advertising, investments and mergers.

Reports on a libel suit between London brokerage firm, Collins Stewart Tullett, and the British newspaper, "The Financial Times." Publishing conglomerate Pearson who is being sued for publicizing accusations by a former brokerage employee; Accusations which involved corrupt practices; Differences between British and United States libel law; Newspaper which is currently facing financial difficulty.

Focuses on the criticisms raised by a judge against the `News of the World,' for trapping the 10th Earl of Hardwicke of Great Britain to sold them cocaine. Events that led to Hardwicke's arrest; Implication of the ruling to the newspaper; Comments from local officials.

Reports that the British Goverment is considering joining Europe's planned single currency as early as the year 2000, a year after the euro currency is scheduled to start, according to `The Financial Times of London.' Discussion of the issue; Interest which the Labor Government previously indicated in monetary union some day.

Deborah Bowness has been teasing the eye since 1999, when she first made trompe l'oeil wallpaper while studying at the Royal College of Art in London. Now based in St. Leonards-on-Sea, England, she photographs her own vintage furniture and clothing, makes montages of the images and prints them on paper. Pasted on walls, the objects, like ideal houseguests, fill a room with character but take up no more than a few millimeters of space. With her latest collection, Ms. Bowness, 37, has branched out. Until recently, she photographed chairs with their backs to the wall. But now, her Utility Chairs series is showing profiles as well, right ($288 for a 22-inch-by-10.8-foot panel). ''I had a month of complete freedom without any business obligations, and that's when everything loosened up a bit and I actually turned the chair sideways,'' she said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on Gladstone's Library in Great Britain that houses books and papers from the 19th-century Liberal British prime minister William Gladstone, views of its director Peter Francis, on an increase in visitors at the library and fundraising for its expansion.

The article offers the author's insights on whether online pornography affects children in Great Britain. Topics discussed include the Authority for Television on Demand in Britain, the effort of Prime Minister David Cameron to prevent the corrosion of childhood, and a report from the Children's Commissioner which examined 276 research papers on pornography and teenagers.

LONDON -- It was a story that London's scandal-hungry tabloids, reeling for months from the scandal in their own backyard, could scarcely have dreamed up: Scotland Yard lending a retired police horse to the editor of one of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers at a time when the Murdoch tabloids were under investigation for the illegal phone hacking that has shaken Scotland Yard and the Murdoch papers to the core. It now appears to have been an innocent act of animal welfare, but celebrities and their animals are traditionally strong tabloid fodder, and the tale of Rebekah Brooks's horse proved irresistible, leading Wednesday's broadcast news bulletins and online news Web sites in Britain. Still, at first blush, the loan of the horse seemed to have a darker side, offering a new exhibit, the horse, to illustrate the once-cozy ties between the Murdoch papers and the police that have formed the backdrop to the scandals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- Scotland Yard said Tuesday that two journalists had been arrested, questioned and released on bail in the renewed inquiry into a five-year-old case involving illegal hacking of celebrity voice mail by The News of the World, the gossip-driven tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch that is one of Britain's most widely circulated newspapers. The two were ''arrested on suspicion of unlawfully intercepting mobile phone voice-mail messages,'' according to a police statement, which did not name the reporters because they had not been charged. A person familiar with the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to discuss the matter, identified them as Ian Edmondson, who was fired as the tabloid's news editor this year; and Neville Thurlbeck, the paper's chief reporter. Scotland Yard investigators searched the paper's newsroom while the two were being questioned, he said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents business news briefs from around the word as of June 2003. Examination of a television merger in Great Britain; Steady quarter at Cadbury Schweppes; Debt agreement advances in Singapore at the Asia Pulp and Paper Company.

The article reports on London, Great Britain has became the latest country to transform its measures on sanitary products by abolishing the so-called tampon tax, no longer classifying the products as nonessential and eliminating extra costs that many have criticized as sexist.

The article offers information on the David Parr House, rowhouse turned museum in Great Britain, previews the lamps exhibition "A Passion for Tiffany Lamps" at the Queens Museum in New York City on April 10, 2016, and reports on the wallpaper designed by Joann Nelsen.

Reports that the paper and pulp company, Arjo Wiggins Appleton plans to dismiss 690 jobs in Britain. Disposal of Arjo's specialty paper unit in Germany; Other job cuts.

The article reports on the Great Britain's principal national news papers editors that met from Prime Minister David Cameron regarding an independent news media regulator establishment. It states that they declined Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson most combative proposal for a law that puts teeth into state-sanctioned oversight system. It mentions that the law would risk gnawing 300 years in Great Britain press freedom by writing new regulatory system according to Cameron.

THE Courtauld Gallery holds one of Britain's most important repositories of old master, Impressionist and early modern drawings, and for the first time a substantial number of the works will be making a trans-Atlantic crossing, for ''MANTEGNA TO MATISSE,'' a selection of 58 masterpieces that begins Tuesday at the Frick Collection. Between the two artists of the exhibition's title lie many more that require no more than a single name -- Leonardo, Dürer, Pontormo, Michelangelo, Rubens, Guercino, Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Goya, Turner, Degas, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Picasso. The Courtauld's single most celebrated work on paper, often described as one of the finest drawings of the Italian Renaissance drawing -- Michelangelo's ''Il Sogno'' or ''The Dream'' -- will be among the loans, as will Leonardo's pen-and-ink ''Studies for St. Mary Magdalene.'' Another masterwork from the collection will be Rubens's chalk portrait of his second wife, Helena Fourment, which includes one of the most lovingly wrought depictions of a single hand -- the right one, of course, raised and articulated with great sculptural flourish -- in all of Western art. Through Jan. 27, 1 East 70th Street; (212) 288-0700, frick.org. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- After months of deeply uncomfortable scrutiny, James Murdoch resigned on Wednesday as head of his father's scandal-ridden newspaper properties in Britain. He said he would concentrate on the company's lucrative television properties, working from the New York headquarters of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's global media conglomerate. The announcement that the younger Mr. Murdoch, 39, had quit as executive chairman of News International, the British newspaper subsidiary of News Corp., came at a moment of intensifying pressure on the Murdoch-owned tabloids at the center of the scandal, The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World. The papers' reporters, editors and corporate executives, including James Murdoch, have been at the center of overlapping investigations by the police, Parliament and a judicial inquiry into a pattern of widespread phone hacking and payoffs to police and other public officials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- British papers have dubbed it ''horsegate.'' The story of Prime Minister David Cameron and his ride on a retired police horse in the Oxfordshire countryside appears, for now at least, to lack the elements of a full-blown scandal. But as political symbols go, the horse and its links to the tabloid newspaper scandal roiling the country seems likely to become, at the least, rich fodder for political satirists and cartoonists. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The editor of the tabloid The Daily Mirror said at a media ethics inquiry on Monday that it was possible that illegal phone hacking took place there. The editor, Richard Wallace, said that hacking ''might well'' have been going on at The Mirror in the early 2000s, but said he had no knowledge of it. The newspaper's editor then was Piers Morgan, now a celebrity interviewer for CNN. Mr. Morgan has testified that he knew nothing of any phone hacking at the newspaper. The editor of the paper's sister title, The Sunday Mirror, said at the same tribunal on Monday that she could not be sure that illicit eavesdropping had not gone on there, too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- Britain is turning away countless non-European writers, artists and performers at its borders, a result of cumbersome and unevenly interpreted immigration rules that are making it increasingly difficult for many arts organizations to include foreigners in their programs. The system, intended to limit the influx of foreigners at a time of economic and security tensions, seems straightforward enough on paper. While some artists qualify for ''temporary worker'' status, the rules are intended to ensure that those who make brief visits for exhibitions, festivals, readings and the like do not earn money or try to remain in the country. But they have proved so onerous and so open to subjective misreading that even people who have been coming to Britain for years are suddenly being refused entry. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- Britain was awash in a new surge of outrage over the phone hacking scandal on Thursday as news emerged that Scotland Yard had added to the list of probable victims a woman whose 8-year-old daughter was murdered by a repeat sex offender in 2000. The tabloid at the center of the scandal, The News of the World, aggressively championed the campaign of the grieving mother, Sara Payne, for a law warning parents if child sex offenders lived nearby. Mrs. Payne had written warmly of the paper in its final issue, calling it ''an old friend.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WIMBLEDON, England -- For all their discernible differences, Nicolas Mahut and John Isner are like two sides of the same piece of paper. When they met again Tuesday in the first round of Wimbledon, they might as well have been clutching pens in their hands instead of rackets. Mahut, the plucky Frenchman who lost to Isner in their history-making opener last year, wrote a book on the match, then returned to the All England Club keen on changing the ending. Isner, an affable American eager to be known as more than tennis's marathon man, came back intent on writing a new chapter to his career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

London It's a salutary measure of smug, fat democracies that the substance and ire of elections are forgotten almost before the crumpled campaign literature has been recycled into budget toilet paper. It now seems fairly embarrassing that we in the British press spent so much furrowed-brow time on the broadcast of the first-ever American-style head-to-head debate by party leaders on April 15. Should they sit, or should they stand? What color would the background be? Could they talk to one another? Can you rebut rebutted rebuttal? Would there be a live audience, as well as the comatose one at home? It was like getting a menage a trois of pandas to mate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- It has been that time of year when Britons of many ages pin red-paper poppies to their clothes to mourn their fallen soldiers. And so ubiquitous are these floral emblems of remembrance -- a record 46 million were sold this year to raise funds for veterans -- that even the contestants and panelists in television game shows sport them. A hint of raised eyebrow is reserved for those who do not, as if their patriotism were somehow frail. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WOULD you pay a full day's earnings just to receive an e-mail message from me? On those terms, I bet you wouldn't welcome hearing from me very often. In England in 1830, postage for letters was calculated not only by the number of sheets of paper but also by the number of miles traversed, and the recipient was the one who had to pay. For a person of ordinary means, a letter of middling length could come to about a day's wages, a fearsome cost for the unfortunate household that received a letter. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The former Soviet spy Aleksandr Y. Lebedev is seeking to expand his British media empire by adding two newspapers, The Independent and Independent on Sunday, less than a year after buying a London daily tabloid. The publisher of the two struggling papers, Independent News and Media, said Friday that it had entered into exclusive talks with Mr. Lebedev, but said the discussions were ''nonbinding'' and that there was no guarantee a deal would be reached. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Official Defense Ministry documents leaked to a British newspaper have revealed a climate of stark animosity among senior British officers toward American military commanders after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when Britain, as the second-largest troop provider, was cast as the United States' principal ally among about 30 nations constituting the occupation force. Confidential interviews with British officers returning from Iraq in the first year after the invasion were emblazoned across the front page of The Daily Telegraph on Monday. Partial transcripts of the interviews that appeared in the paper suggested that strains between the two allies, though known to some degree at the time, were more severe than previously acknowledged. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On paper, Winfried F. W. Bischoff -- whose most recent job was a brief stint at the helm of the heavily damaged Citigroup -- has all the qualities one would expect in an incoming chairman of the equally troubled Lloyds Banking Group, one of Britain's most storied banking names. Experienced, collegial and steeped in integrity, he has ties that extend far beyond finance and into government and society at large. In short, he is the very picture of a City of London grandee. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The good lady Opinion sits perched in a tree, wearing the weighty towers of the town as her hat, which blinds her eyes. On one of her hands a chameleon sits, doubtless changing its spots to accommodate the surroundings. Held in her other hand is a wand used to shake the tree's branches, from which leaves fall: leaves of books and papers, which offer not knowledge but libel and foolishness, which ''in everie streete, on everie stall you find.'' Such is the cynical vision of the news business put forward by Henry Peacham in 1641 London, as journalism, in its earliest forms, was becoming a major force during some of the most tumultuous decades in England's history: no wisdom, he finds, just much posturing and gossip. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

France has rejected a plan to participate in a joint charter flight with Britain to deport to Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, 43 Afghans found without papers near Calais, officials said Tuesday. Geoffroy Didier, an adviser to the immigration minister, said France would not accept Britain's offer to join one of its deportation flights to Afghanistan. He said the Immigration Ministry was working with the United Nations refugee agency, which had recommended no deportations of women, children or Afghans who come from dangerous regions of their homeland. In London, the British Border Agency would not comment on whether the flight would proceed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The parasite-host relationship is usually a one-to-one affair. But parasite infections can have repercussions that go beyond individual hosts to the population as a whole. A case in point is described by researchers in Britain, who studied the effects of intestinal parasites on a seabird, the European shag. More precisely, they studied how parasite infections in adult shags affect their offspring. In a paper published online by the journal Science, they report that male chicks suffer. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Every morning for 10 weeks, Bob Satchwell typed the words ''Prince Harry'' and ''Afghanistan'' into Google, and every morning, the top result was the same: ''Prince Harry Is Forbidden To Fight Alongside Soldiers In Afghanistan.'' Mr. Satchwell was relieved; as the executive director of the Society of Editors in Britain, he had brokered a top-secret agreement to keep the prince's presence in Afghanistan out of the cutthroat British papers and off the airwaves to reduce the chances that the prince or his fellow soldiers would become special targets of enemy fighters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the dismissal of "The Daily Mirror," editor Piers Morgan for publishing photos that the paper contended were of a hooded Iraqi man being beaten, kicked and urinated on by British soldiers.