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...ankles were not covered, too. He shoved her into a taxi, pawed her robe open and denounced her as a Filipina gahbah (Filipina prostitute). She was interrogated, forced to confess and sent to a prison for women. There she might have remained if not for the connections of her British husband, who was able to convince Prince Salman, the governor of Riyadh, to have her released...
...regions, is plunging into the middle of a takeover fight for one of Europe's biggest and most venerable banks. Teaming up with Singapore's state-owned investment vehicle, Temasek - which will invest an initial $1.9 billion - CDB will fork over $3 billion for a stake in Barclays, the British bank now locked in a struggle with a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to acquire Amsterdam-based ABN Amro. If Barclays' $94 billion cash-and-stock bid prevails against RBS's $98 billion offer, CDB will boost its stake in Barclays to $13.5 billion, making...
Prime Minister Gordon Brown linked the rain to climate change, while some meteorologists said it was triggered by a change in the position of the polar jet stream that brings wet air over the Atlantic. Whatever the cause, many responded with the resilience on which the British pride themselves. One sign outside an Oxford pub vowed: open for business - come hell or high water...
...Thank God, Russia has never been a British colony...
...beautiful a moment as Iraq's shared celebration may have been, the danger remains that they're less akin to Ivory Coast's example of rapprochement than they are to the legendary Christmas 1914 soccer match on World War I's Western Front. That game, played between German and British soldiers in no man's land amid a remarkable unofficial yuletide truce, expressed the shared humanity among the combatants of both sides. And then they went back to slaughtering each other for another four years...