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Zara Phillips, a member of the British royal family, has been selected to compete in the equestrian events at the Beijing Olympics.
The collective wealth of Britain's 1,000 richest people went up by nearly 15 percent last year, and more than half the country's 75 billionaires are foreign-born, according to a list published by the Sunday Times newspaper.
Prince Philip, the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, was released from the hospital on Sunday where he was admitted last week with a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said.
Prince Philip, the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, was admitted to hospital on Friday with a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said.
British Airways' new Terminal 5 was supposed to be a shining monument to air travel, but the problems marring the opening showcased the worst aspects of commercial flying
Queen Elizabeth helped launch Heathrow's $8.6 billion new Terminal 5 on Friday as part of the British airport's rejuvenation plan to maintain its status as one of the world's most important transport hubs.
A man was arrested on the runway at London's Heathrow Airport on Wednesday, setting off a major security alert on the eve of a visit by Queen Elizabeth to open a landmark terminal building.
The royal has been in the country since December, British army officials tell PEOPLE
True or False: The Catholic Church is the world's largest landowner.
British retailer Marks & Spencer says it experienced flagging sales in the run-up to Christmas and issued a gloomy outlook for 2008, sending its share price plunging by a fifth.
Zara Phillips, a member of the British royal family, has been selected to compete in the equestrian events at the Beijing Olympics.
The collective wealth of Britain's 1,000 richest people went up by nearly 15 percent last year, and more than half the country's 75 billionaires are foreign-born, according to a list published by the Sunday Times newspaper.
Prince Philip, the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, was released from the hospital on Sunday where he was admitted last week with a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said.
Prince Philip, the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, was admitted to hospital on Friday with a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said.
British Airways' new Terminal 5 was supposed to be a shining monument to air travel, but the problems marring the opening showcased the worst aspects of commercial flying
Queen Elizabeth helped launch Heathrow's $8.6 billion new Terminal 5 on Friday as part of the British airport's rejuvenation plan to maintain its status as one of the world's most important transport hubs.
A man was arrested on the runway at London's Heathrow Airport on Wednesday, setting off a major security alert on the eve of a visit by Queen Elizabeth to open a landmark terminal building.
The royal has been in the country since December, British army officials tell PEOPLE
True or False: The Catholic Church is the world's largest landowner.
British retailer Marks & Spencer says it experienced flagging sales in the run-up to Christmas and issued a gloomy outlook for 2008, sending its share price plunging by a fifth.
Ian McKellen and Kylie Minogue are among those on this year's list of U.K. Honors, named annually by Queen Elizabeth II.
Australian pop star Kylie Minogue and the professor who created Dolly the sheep are among the prominent figures who have received awards from Queen Elizabeth II in her annual New Year Honors list.
Queen Elizabeth II, who just became Britain's oldest-ever monarch, is proving that it's never too late to join the YouTube generation.
At 81 years and 243 days old, Queen Elizabeth II becomes the Britain's oldest-ever monarch Thursday, passing Queen Victoria.
Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's oldest reigning monarch Thursday, surpassing the record set by her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria.
The wife of Prince Edward, the Queen Elizabeth II's youngest son, gave birth to a baby boy Monday, Buckingham Palace confirmed in a statement.
Christmas walks into Colonial Williamsburg on boots, battle-dress soft soles padding across cobblestones in the dusk of December's first Sunday.
Let me pack you along for a day on the road to help demystify what goes into the making of a guidebook.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Monday with a service of thanksgiving at London's Westminster Abbey.
The following are the stories we expect to be making the headlines in the next seven days:
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II opened the country's parliament Tuesday in a traditional ceremony. The event culminated in a speech in which she outlined the government's legislative program for the next 12 months.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has begun his visit to the UK as controversy continues over issues related to the Middle Eastern kingdom.
Movie awards are going to the dogs – Helen Mirren's costar Corgis, that is.
Once mocked as the beautiful building that didn't attract enough visitors, the newly named 02 has become the capital's coolest venue
Prince William has whisked girlfriend Kate Middleton to the countryside – scene of their earlier adventures together.
Former World Rally auto racing champion Colin McRae was feared dead Saturday after a helicopter crash at his Scottish base at Jerviswood, Lanark, just south of a line midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Queen Elizabeth II was not amused when celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz suggested she remove her crown for a portrait, a clip from a new BBC documentary reveals.
The young boys traveled thousands of miles from their families on a harrowing five-month sea journey not knowing what they'd find when they arrived. Talk about being scared out of your wits. Talk about an adventure of a lifetime!
Last weekend was weird, wasn't it? Notwithstanding the usual plethora of basketball and hockey playoff games, Barry Bonds hitting another home run, Tiger Woods winning another tournament and Spiderman opening another movie, it was retro. It was up memory lane. It was the 1950s. It was your grandfather's weekend. It was horse racing and boxing on top together -- the Run for the Roses and a title fight that mattered.
Queen Elizabeth II is loved, not only in Britain but also in that nation's former North American colony.
The relationship break up of Britain's Prince William and longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton sparked a media frenzy Sunday, as the country's newspapers speculated on the reasons behind the split.
Helen Mirren bears little resemblance to Elizabeth II, given the British monarch's prim, carefully weighed responses and slow, proper walk.
A highly contagious form of stomach flu sickened hundreds of passengers during a worldwide voyage on the famed Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship in what health officials called an unusually large outbreak.
Gareth Edwards, voted the greatest player of all time in a Rugby World magazine poll, has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in Queen Elizabeth's New Year's Honors list.
Not since the last Ice Age, over 8,000 years ago, had the United Kingdom been joined with mainland Europe.
Queen Elizabeth II canceled plans to attend the races at Newmarket on Friday, as she pared back her schedule to rest a strained back muscle.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth was forced to cancel plans to open Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium because of a strained muscle in her back.
$12,360,000: The price paid Monday for "The Lesotho Promise," the 10th largest white diamond ever discovered and the largest diamond found this century, by the South African Diamond Corporation at an auction in Antwerp, Belgium.
(CNN) -- Monarch of the silver screen: Everything you wanted to know about the critically acclaimed movie "The Queen."
Much of Britain fell silent for two minutes Friday as the country marked the painful memory of the worst bombings in London since World War II.
In a day of moving tributes and tears, Britain marked one year since four suicide bombers killed 52 people on London's transit system.
Queen Elizabeth II was praised for her "calmness, serenity and stillness" at a special service of thanksgiving on Sunday to mark her 80th birthday.
Celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday continued Saturday with a special display staged at Buckingham Palace of historic British-built cars.
CNN.com readers have been sending us their thoughts as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 80th birthday.
To the tune of a brass band playing "Happy Birthday," a beaming Queen Elizabeth II joined throngs of loyal subjects at Britain's Windsor Castle to celebrate as she turns 80.
A new portrait of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has been unveiled to mark her 80th birthday, showing her dressed all in pink and ready for the races.
A special set of commemorative stamps for Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday went on sale in Britain Tuesday, signaling the start of a week of events to mark the monarch's landmark anniversary.
The 18th Commonwealth Games were officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in a colorful and emotional ceremony at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Wednesday.
Queen Elizabeth II delivered a somber annual Christmas message, focusing on the suffering wrought by the "dreadful events" of the past 12 months -- the Asian tsunami, the Pakistan-Indian earthquake, the hurricanes in the United States and the Caribbean, and the suicide bombings in London.
Australian TV entertainer Rolf Harris has unveiled his portrait of Queen Elizabeth II to mark the British monarch's 80th birthday next year.
Walking into the highly restricted tuberculosis ward of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Malawi's second city of Blantyre is a lesson in humility.
British forces have thwarted attempts to carry out more terrorist attacks since the July 7 London bombings and a botched bid to repeat them on July 21, the capital's police chief said in remarks published Wednesday.
One of America's most watched breakfast shows has been broadcast live from inside a royal palace in an unprecedented move to draw visitors back to Britain.
Windsor Castle, one of the British queen's royal residences, is to be powered by environmentally friendly energy, following approval from a local council for a hydroelectric power plant to be built nearby.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has said that the terrorists responsible for the bomb attacks on London "will not change our way of life."
More than 150 ships from three dozen nations are anchored off the coast of Britain for a mock sea battle marking 200 years since Adm. Horatio Nelson routed Napoleon Bonaparte's French and Spanish forces at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Hundreds of bereaved families and friends of those killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami have joined Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair at a memorial service to honor those who died.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has visited the Channel Islands to mark the 60th anniversary of their liberation from Nazi rule at the end of World War II.
The problem-plagued fountain built in memory of Princess Diana reopens Friday after being closed for four months of repairs.
Designing clothes for as high profile a figure as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is one of the greatest challenges the fashion world has to offer.
The heir to the British throne Prince Charles and his new bride Camilla have emerged from their Scottish honeymoon estate to attend a small church service together, a day after a regal wedding made official their decades-old love affair.
A solemn ceremony has blessed the wedding of the heir to the British throne Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, now the Duchess of Cornwall, at which the couple each pledged to be faithful to each other.
The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles will acknowledge their "sins and wickedness" when their wedding is blessed by the Archbishop of Canterbury on Saturday, royal officials said.
Britain's most senior policeman has ordered an inquiry into how a journalist drove a fake "bomb" into the heart of Windsor Castle where heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles will have his marriage blessed this weekend.
Souvenir hunters are finally starting to snap up memorabilia bearing the original date of Prince Charles's wedding after its last-minute postponement because of the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
The blessing ceremony following the civil marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles will be shown live on television, the prince's spokesman has told CNN.
Queen Elizabeth II seems to have started a trend by deciding to miss the civil wedding of her son Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles.
Britain's double Olympic gold medalist Kelly Holmes said she was amazed and honored after being made a dame in Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's Honors list.
Britain's most unusual war heroes -- including glow worms, elephants and monkeys -- have been honored for their devotion to duty under fire.
Princess Alice, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II and the oldest member of the British royal family, has died aged 102, Buckingham Palace said Saturday.
Five protesters burst onto the floor of Britain's House of Commons on Wednesday as lawmakers were preparing to vote on a ban on fox hunting.
London's police chief has demanded an urgent inquiry after a fathers rights campaigner dressed as Batman evaded supposedly tight security to stage a protest on a Buckingham Palace balcony.
British champion jockey Kieren Fallon and colleagues Fergal Lynch and Darren Williams were back in action on Thursday after their arrests over allegations of race-fixing.
Getting away from work and taking a break in today's connected world is almost impossible, most holiday destinations are now wired up so you can logon 24/7.
Frail veterans of World War I have gathered in London to remember the 90th anniversary of the start of the conflict.
World leaders gave a standing ovation to D-Day veterans Sunday at a moving ceremony overlooking the invasion beaches of June 6, 1944.
France has gone on red security alert for the visit of a host of world leaders at the weekend for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
British police say they are questioning a man who tricked his way into Queen Elizabeth II's main southern English country residence by pretending to be a police officer.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has appointed a security director after being warned in a report she could be at threat from terrorists.
Queen Elizabeth II has warned Britain and France they cannot afford to be divided while facing threats to their security.
Queen Elizabeth II is marking 100 years of peace between Britain and France by taking her first trip to Paris on the Eurostar -- one of the strongest symbols of the two countries' ties.
Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates will be awarded an honorary knighthood by Britain's Queen Elizabeth for an outstanding contribution to enterprise, officials said Monday.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth has named a new $800 million cruise ship, the Queen Mary 2 -- billed by its owner Cunard as the largest passenger ship of its type ever built.
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Will the next 30 years of Internet expansion be as fast and furious as the first 30 years? "We're not done, by any means," says Internet analyst Henry Blodget.
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They may pay as little as $160 a day for a wee cabin down near the boiler room or as much as $3,500 a day for the penthouse suite atop the Queen Elizabeth 2. But whatever they spend, more and more ...
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