Word: britishers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Both Asian investors will become major investors in the British bank. If Barclays is successful, the state-owned CDB would own up to around 8% of Barclays' stock. Its investment is "by far the biggest external investment ever made by China," Barclays CEO John Varley crowed Monday. "And it's very good for Barclays...
...Nicolas Sarkozy has been busy on the international stage. First, the French President gave an impressive performance during his first G8 summit; then he played a central role breaking the deadlock over how to structure the European Union. Since then, he has opened an ambitious new chapter in Franco-British cooperation alongside new Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and has announced a radical revamping of the executive structure at Airbus. He's also managed to roll out a fistful of important domestic social and economic reforms. Before he embarks on his short August vacation, Sarkozy hopes to cap an active international...
...confirming the historical accuracy of a tiny detail, a two-inch clay tablet long in the possession of the British Museum has given ammunition to those who believe that the Bible - specifically, in this case, the book of the prophet Jeremiah - is history. That, at least, is what the believers are claiming...
...will take a lot more cuneiform tablets to convince him. But then, the British Museum still has a lot left to look through...
...Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” debuted in England in June 1997 and generated immediate buzz. According to a 1997 review of the novel in British newspaper The Guardian, author J.K. Rowling sold her manuscript to her UK publisher Bloomsbury for ?100,000, and less than a month later, she had attracted movie offers from two Hollywood studios...