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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.

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

Reports on the withdrawal of the offer of David and Frederick Barclay to acquire Hollinger Inc. in London, England. Decision of the court against the sale of the company; Refusal of the Barclays to take over the debt of the company; Options being considered by the Barclays.

Reports on letter bombs which exploded at various offices of the Arabic-language newspaper `Al Hayat.' The bombings at offices in New York City (at United Nations headquarters) and in London, England; The paper's principal owner, Prince Khalid Ibn Sultan of Saudi Arabia; Question of motive; The newspaper's confusion regarding the bombings, in light of nonpartisan editorial policy.

LONDON -- Fresh details about the phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers in Tuesday's detailed parliamentary report hint at new legal and criminal developments in a scandal that has already spanned more than five years and produced dozens of arrests. Dotted through its 121 pages are references to sealed documents and an audio tape which contain possibly unrevealed names of those involved in illegal acts, a potentially explosive impending legal judgment, significant areas under review by Scotland Yard and a file of evidence gathered by the company that the panel of lawmakers behind the report has said may have been instrumental in covering up phone hacking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the financial performance of tabloid newspapers in London, England. Circulation of the newspaper; Market dynamics in the quality end of newspapers; Percentage sales from the subscription; Start of the tabloid versions of "The Times of London."

A profile of British philosopher Antony Flew is presented. 84-year-old Flew is now retired for a long time, and lives with his wife in London, England. It is mentioned that during his career, Flew held appointments at several regional universities, and earned a good reputation in writing on unusual topics, such as immortality. It is stated that his greatest contribution is a paper titled "Theology and Falsification."

Describes wallpaper prints in textiles and fabrics displayed at three shows, the 100 Percent Design, DesignersBlock and Design UK in 2004 in London, England. Glasgow Toilre designed by Timorous Beasties of Scotland; Prototype chair from Egg Designs of Durban, South Africa; Design of fabric by Andrew Hardiman.

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 -- Questions about illegal computer hacking by The Times of London were raised on Thursday when officials at the judicial inquiry into press ethics said they would recall the paper's editor for further testimony and the police confirmed that they were investigating an incident in 2009 in which one of the paper's reporters apparently hacked an e-mail account. So far the bulk of the police investigation has focused on phone hacking, which officials at Rupert Murdoch's News International have admitted was rampant at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid. Hacking into people's e-mails is a potentially more serious crime than listening to their voice mail messages, and last summer the police opened Operation Tuleta, an investigation into computer hacking that is being held in tandem with one on phone hacking (Operation Weeting) and another on bribing the police (Operation Elveden). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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.

LONDON -- The fans packed into Olympic Stadium, often sitting in the cold and rain, eagerly watching the women run, leap and throw over two days. Some wore paper Jessica Ennis masks, hurled their arms into the air and gritted their teeth as she threw the shot-put or the javelin. Others clapped furiously, and more than once, ''I love you, Jessica!'' could be heard in the stands. Ennis is a local star, her face plastered across billboards throughout London, and she solidified her place by grabbing the gold medal in the heptathlon Saturday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- At 4 p.m. Saturday, 10 staff members of Village Life met in the Olympic Village Services Center to discuss the next day's issue. The front page, it seemed, was obvious: Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Olympic Park. ''There was a panic, but I got a picture of her under the Best of British banner,'' said Kathrin Matthee, one of the dozen volunteer reporters at the newspaper. Wearing a yellow armband, which identified her as a reporter for the paper, she and her colleague Bernadine Ursell were able to speak to Prince Philip and several athletes who came to see the royals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

HALFWAY through my first pint of Nightwatchman -- a lightly roasted, malty ale from the East London Brewing Company -- the bartender replaced the low-volume Little Willie Littlefield LP with the atmospheric vinyl crackle of ''Lightnin' Strikes'' by Lightnin' Hopkins. I opened a packet of bacony pork scratchings, or cracklings, and took in the afternoon palette of a classic British pub: a low wooden counter with 10 hand-pulled taps of local ales unknown to me, backed up by eight farmhouse ciders that I'd never heard of. Around the dim, denlike space, neighbors read the papers or chatted quietly over their glasses in the way I imagined Londoners must have done for centuries, and I found it very easy to slip into conversation with the avuncular gentleman next to me. What was difficult to grasp, however, was what he told me: that this beautiful pub, the Southampton Arms, in the north London neighborhood of Gospel Oak, hadn't actually been part of London's great drinking culture since before the beginning of time. In fact, the rarefied atmosphere (and beer list) we were enjoying dated from late 2009, part of an explosion of great beer, and great places to drink it, in the British capital over the past few years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON - Companies should help reduce income inequality and focus more on long-term goals, a new group of supporters of capitalism said on Monday. In its first paper, the group, called the Henry Jackson Initiative for Inclusive Capitalism, suggests companies should stop reporting earnings quarterly, to encourage investors to think over the longer term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- Lawyers for a Libyan military commander, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, said on Wednesday that they had begun legal action against a former British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, following accusations that Mr. Straw was directly involved in secret rendition operations that delivered him and another man to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's secret police in 2004. Legal papers served on Mr. Straw, a statement from the law firm Leigh Day said, are the first move in an action that ''seeks to examine'' Mr. Straw's possible role in the rendition of Mr. Belhaj and another Libyan man, Sami al-Saadi. The men were opponents of Colonel Qaddafi. Mr. Belhaj was then a leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which British and American officials suspected of links to Al Qaeda; he is now head of the Tripoli Military Council, which was set up after the Qaddafi regime fell last year. Though he seeks damages from Mr. Straw, the statement said, ''his predominant aim in taking legal action is to seek an apology for what took place and for the truth to be known.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- When she went blind as a result of diabetes, Trish Vickers set out to fill the void in her life by writing poetry. Then she turned to writing a novel, her pen guided by a system of elastic bands stretched across the paper. With 26 pages written, and a plot that turned on a woman whose life implodes, she began to dream of finding a publisher. Then the dream imploded, too. When her son Simon visited her at her home, near the town of Lyme Regis in the Thomas Hardy country of Dorset, she showed him what she had written, and he gave her the bad news: Every page was blank. Her pen had run out of ink before she began, and what remained was an empty manuscript, void of all her imagination had captured. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A British private detective at the center of the phone hacking scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch's media empire cited the MI5 file of a close friend of Princes William and Harry in notes he kept on his work for the tabloid The News of the World, according to a suit filed in London. But the court papers, released to The New York Times, do not clearly indicate whether the detective, Glenn Mulcaire, accessed the highly classified intelligence file directly, was told of its contents or was simply noting its existence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- When a Parliamentary committee first confronted The News of the World with charges of phone hacking in 2007, the paper's owners produced a reassuring, one-paragraph letter from a prominent London law firm named Harbottle & Lewis. The firm had been hired to review the e-mail of the tabloid's royal reporter, who had pleaded guilty to hacking the cellphone messages of royal household staff members. The letter said senior editors were not aware of the reporter's ''illegal actions,'' which helped convince lawmakers that hacking was not endemic at the tabloid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- The Murdoch who may have emerged in the best light from the grueling question-and-answer session in the British Parliament on Tuesday was not Rupert Murdoch or his son James, but his wife, Wendi. It was Mrs. Murdoch, 42, who lunged across the hearing room to defend her husband when, after about two hours of intense questioning, a protester stormed the witness table, trying to hit Mr. Murdoch, 80, with a shaving cream pie on a paper plate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nearly half a century after the notorious heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery, the last of the men still serving time for stealing $7 million from a Glasgow to London mail train, Ronnie Biggs, was formally paroled Friday after Britain's justice minister decided he was likely to have only a short time to live. Mr. Biggs, who was handed the papers formalizing his release at his bed in a hospital in the provincial town of Norwich, was part of a 15-member gang who stopped the mail train by resetting track signals to red in remote countryside 40 miles northwest of London on the night of Aug. 8, 1963, netting a sum in untraceable banknotes that would be equivalent today to more than $70 million. The bulk of the money was never recovered. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE shopkeeper at Sona Jewels of London stood with arms folded over her silk sari, lips firmly pressed together, shaking her head. Two sets of gold necklaces glittered on a countertop between her and Miriam Fall, who was buying wedding presents for her nieces in Senegal. Next to the jewelry was a scrap of paper and a scrawled sum. The total: $1,156. Ms. Fall, 40, a warehouse stocker, was bargaining: ''I asked you for the best price.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Examines the arrest of journalist Tony Geraghty of `The Sunday Times' of London, England, on the charge of violating the Official Secrets Act by publishing a material given to him without authority by an official. Authoritarian tendency of the British government; Highlights of the search and seizure of Geraghty's papers and personal effects; Nature of Geraghty's book `The Irish War.'

MORE than 15 years ago, the first ''upscale'' Indian restaurants began appearing in London, including the now-famous Tamarind, which opened in Mayfair. The occasion was notable: in a city filled with curry joints, here was a white-tablecloth operation with Michelin star aspirations. It was eclectic, exciting, expensive and successful -- and yes, it got its star. It remains crowded and popular, and I don't have an unkind word to say about it. Still, it isn't what I look for when I go to London. The great thing about the so-called ''Indian'' food scene here (I'm putting ''Indian'' in quotation marks because a more accurate term, I suppose, would be ''subcontinental,'' which would include food from Pakistan, and the disputed land of Kashmir, among other areas) is that you can find it in every neighborhood and it's the genuine item. The white tablecloth spots are fine for people who are skittish about true subcontinental food. But those that offer the real deal are amazing, and frankly have more guts than those that cater to, well, a white-tablecloth clientele. And don't assume that good ingredients are restricted to the pricey places; every restaurant discussed here uses high-quality meat and vegetables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the beginning, there was light -- at least for photography. It wasn't until 1895, almost 60 years after the medium's invention, that an Englishman named Paul Martin began experimenting with taking photographs at night. Gaslights had illuminated London since the early 19th century. But it was the gelatin dry-plate process introduced in the late 1880s that lowered exposure time enough for Martin to shoot the city after dark. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]