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Introduces one-of-a-kind wallpapers from artist and designer Louise Body. Description of her wallpapers; Retail price.

Asserts that Sir Roger Penrose, of Oxford, England, is suing Kimberly-Clark Ltd. in April 1997 over the design of toilet paper. Penrose's claim of copyright infringement over the use of the Penrose Pattern; The suit filed by Pentaplex Ltd.

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 article offers world news briefs as of September 2012. Paper clips have been banned in Manchester, England by the Health and safety officials. A man was taken in custody by the police in Reno, Nevada for firing a shotgun at a golfer. A lawsuit has been filed against owners Douglas and Barbara Daughenbaugh of Dahl's College of Beauty in Great Falls, Montana by its students and employees.

Reports on the plans of the Earl of Macclesfield to sell its family's collection of Isaac Newton writings to the University of Cambridge in England. Concern of academics in the sale of the writings; Benefit of the acquisition for the university; Content of the Macclesfield papers.

Reports that Russia will begin to pay off defaulted debt with paper on February 1, 1999 as investors fight on for cash in the Russian courts. Russia's negotiation with the London, England, club of commercial creditors; Comments from Philip Poole, director of research for Eastern Europe and Russia at ING Barings; Issuance of the MinFin bonds.

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]

The article reports on the plan of the newspaper publisher News International Ltd., owned by News Corp., to close its newspaper "Thelondonpaper" in London, England. James Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corp. for Europe and Asia, cites that the performance of the newspaper did not reach the expectations, regardless of a new design and approach. It notes that in the fiscal year ended June 2008, the newspaper had a loss of 12.9 million pound. According to News International, it will help the employees of the newspaper to find new jobs.

The article reports on the plans of Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev in acquiring 75% of London, England's prime afternoon newspaper, "Evening Standard." It says that Lebedev has held talks with the British media companies of buying the prime afternoon newspaper. The article reveals that Lebedev held exploratory talks to participate in a buyout of London's "Independent," a national daily newspaper.

Features the publication of a manuscript about the structure of DNA written by Bruce Fraser. Reason for delays in publication; Journal where the paper appeared; Seminal paper on DNA published by the colleagues of Fraser prior to his manuscript; Overview of the story on how a group of researchers in England uncovered facts about DNA.

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."

Highlights the fund raising efforts of Cambridge University in England to purchase the Macclesfield Newton Collection, a collection of works of physicist Sir Isaac Newton. Selling price of the collection; Significance of the collection; Why the Macclesfield family is selling the collection.

The article reports on employees of the printing plant that serves England's Bradford University and Bradford College, who have been pooling their lottery resources for many years. It is explained that they decided in 2002 to develop their strategy. They wrote every number from one to 49 on separate slips of paper and had each person draw six, to correspond with the six numbers picked in each lottery draw. After the first 48 pieces of paper were drawn, they used the last one and began again with the previously selected numbers. In October 2006, the group shared a $10 million jackpot.

The article reports on the prison sentence of an unnamed teenager for the murder of Vijaykumar Patel, a shopkeeper of Indian descent in London, England who was killed for refusing to sell cigarette papers to the boy because he was underage.

This article reports that the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, outlined proposed changes in May 2006 that would transform how the 900-year-old institution is run and, for the first time, give outsiders a leading role in its governance. Oxford is under increasing fiscal pressure. It is organized on a decentralized collegiate system, and its 39 colleges enjoy considerable autonomy. Ultimate decision-making responsibility at Oxford resides with Congregation, a body made up of faculty members, researchers and other administrative staff members. Practical policy-making responsibility resides with Oxford's much smaller Council. Another body, the Conference of Colleges, represents the common interests of the 39 colleges and seven other academic units, known as permanent private halls, in their relations with the central university. The white-paper proposals would leave the composition of Congregation unchanged but alter the size and composition of Council, reducing it from 26 to 15 members and specifying that eight of those individuals, including its chair, be from outside the university. The report also envisions the creation of a new Academic Board, which would have responsibility for the academic administration of the university. Oxford's Congregation is expected to debate the report's proposed reforms this fall.

The article features the East Ruston Old Vicarage garden of Alan Gray and Graham Robeson in North Norfolk, England. It was built on a 32-acre land by filling it with Tasmanian tree ferns, spiky agaves from the American Southwest, and Taiwanese rice-paper plants. The plantings include poppies, grasses, shrubs of blue ceanothus, and cow parsley. It is noted that Gray and Robeson designed the garden themselves and did the surveying for its many hedges and its walls and terraces. Among the bird species in the garden are woodcocks, owls, and goldfinches.

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."

The article deals with the reform of the administrative structure of Oxford University in England proposed by a party chaired by John Hood, vice chancellor of the university. The party of Hood proposes to bring a majority of outsiders onto the central body responsible for institutional governance. Many professors oppose a proposal to create a new Academic Board to be responsible for academic administration. He believes that the financial constraints restrict the number of graduate students it can admit.

The article focuses on the unexpected tenure of Terry Venables as the Socceroos coach in the late 1990s, delving into his diverse background, including managing England and his charismatic yet tumultuous life. Topics discussed include Venables' multifaceted career, his unconventional remote coaching arrangement with the Socceroos, and the pivotal moment in the 1997 match against Iran that dashed Australia's hopes of qualifying for the World Cup.

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]

Focuses on the issue of privacy regarding the publication in the London, England tabloid, `The Mail,' of excerpts from a manuscript written by the British Prime Minister Tony Blair's former nanny.

Reports that one of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's handbags is to occupy a place of honor at Cambridge University in England. How her handbag came to symbolize her style of argument; Oxford English Dictionary's definition of the word `handbag'; The historical memorabilia the handbag will share space with; The question of which handbag she will choose.

The article focuses on the events and controversies surrounding the second Test match between England and Australia in cricket. It discusses the stumping incident involving cricketers, Jonny Bairstow and Alex Carey, the reactions of the crowd and media, the accusations of cheating, and the response from various individuals and organizations. It also reflects on the competitive nature of the Ashes series and criticizes the negativity and hypocrisy surrounding the sport.

The article reviews the exhibition "Awareness" pertaining to unmanned aerial vehicles at the Imperial War Museum, England, is on until March 19, 2017.

The article discuses James Ward's fascination with boredom and things that are boring. Ward is a co-founder of the Stationery Club, whose members meet to discuss things like pens and paper clips. He organized a conference called "Boring 2010" which took place in December of that year in London, England. Attendee William Barrett's presentation, in which he read aloud the several hundred colors in a paint catalog, exemplified the proceedings.

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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]

More than 5,700 researchers have joined a boycott of Elsevier, a leading publisher of science journals, in a growing furor over open access to the fruits of scientific research. The protest grew out of a provocative blog post by the mathematician Timothy Gowers of Cambridge University, who announced on Jan. 21 that he would no longer publish papers in any of Elsevier's journals or serve as a referee or editor for them. [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]

The newspaper The Guardian said Wednesday that one of its reporters, Amelia Hill, was questioned in recent days by police officers investigating leaks from the phone hacking inquiry that has enveloped Rupert Murdoch's newspaper group in Britain. That followed the arrest last month of a Scotland Yard detective assigned to the phone hacking investigation, a step that British news reports linked to Guardian reports on the scandal. In a statement confirming that Ms. Hill had been questioned in connection with ''alleged leaks,'' The Guardian raised concerns about the implications for reporters' relations with their sources. ''Journalists would no doubt be concerned if the police sought to criminalize conversations between off-record sources and reporters,'' the newspaper said. Also on Wednesday, a former reporter at the now-defunct Murdoch tabloid The News of the World was arrested in the phone hacking case. The journalist, Raoul Simons, who had more recently worked at The Times, another Murdoch newspaper, was later released. He was the 16th person with links to the Murdoch papers to have been arrested in the case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on the origin of street names in the U.S. and England.

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]

The article reports on the reaction of the City of London in England to the financial transaction tax, also known as a Tobin tax, proposed by the British Treasury. It notes that the Treasury published a paper which states the stance of the government on how the financial industry may contribute to the potential costs of any risks it poses to taxpayers. According to Jonathan McMahon of the regulatory consulting company Promontory, the Treasury may be using the transaction tax to push action on regulation elsewhere in the sector.

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]

The citizens of Whitehaven try, really they do. They separate out their cans, their paper, their cardboard and their glass, and they recycle them all. They compost. They jump up and down on their trash to cram it into their government-issued garbage cans, and they put the trash out for collection at exactly 7 a.m., twice a month. But when Gareth Corkhill, a bus driver, was fined $215 -- and given a further $225 fine and a criminal record when he failed to pay -- for leaving his garbage can lid slightly ajar this spring, Whitehaven's residents banded together in dismay. They raised the money to pay the fine, and they began to complain. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the plan to unwind by the structured investment vehicle Cheyne Finance managed by London, England-based Cheyne Capital Management (U.K.) LLP following a decline in the value of its portfolio of real estate-related securities. Cheyne Finance failed to meet tests that measure the value of its investment portfolio against its debt obligation according to Standard & Poor's Corp. The vehicle was established in 2005 to issue about $20 billion in commercial paper and notes.

The article focuses on a meeting between a London City Mission evangelist and a desperate woman, looking for God's help. She explained to the missionary that she had come to England to work and learn about life in another country. Suddenly she blurted out and said that where was God when she lost her best friend. He was recently killed. She further said that she had just put on a smile but inside she was hurt and no one knew how she was feeling. At that moment the missionary felt that he should brought a little New Testament. It was in her language so that she could understand it.

Discusses how Debz Lowry, a victim of witchcraft and drug abuse in Cambridge, England, managed to overcome her predicament and rediscover her religious faith in Jesus in 2003. Background information on Lowry; Personal account of how her religious beliefs helped her get through drugs and the occult; Implications on religion and the conduct of life.

Explores the Christian life of surveyor Pippa Morgan in London, England. Christianity Explored course taken by Morgan; Morgan's involvement with the All Souls Church; Morgan's attitude before and after she became a Christian.