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The Phantom composer's prostate condition was detected early
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II unveiled a new medal Wednesday to honor the families of British service personnel killed while serving their country.
Royal Ascot comes to an end Saturday after five days of pomp and circumstance, royal grandeur, free-flowing champagne and impossibly big hats.
A controversial British politician convicted of inciting racial hatred could soon be sipping tea with Queen Elizabeth at one of her annual garden parties.
Madame Alexander was one of the great innovators in the doll industry.
Queen Elizabeth II has become a YouTube hit after apparently losing her temper with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a photocall for G-20 leaders.
"I really enjoyed our meeting," the First Lady says after her audience with the Queen
The day will also bring dinner with J.K. Rowling - cooked by celeb chef Jamie Oliver
The honorary distinction will recognize his services to U.K.-U.S. relations
Have you been paying attention to the news? Answer these questions and find out.
The Phantom composer's prostate condition was detected early
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II unveiled a new medal Wednesday to honor the families of British service personnel killed while serving their country.
Royal Ascot comes to an end Saturday after five days of pomp and circumstance, royal grandeur, free-flowing champagne and impossibly big hats.
A controversial British politician convicted of inciting racial hatred could soon be sipping tea with Queen Elizabeth at one of her annual garden parties.
Madame Alexander was one of the great innovators in the doll industry.
Queen Elizabeth II has become a YouTube hit after apparently losing her temper with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a photocall for G-20 leaders.
"I really enjoyed our meeting," the First Lady says after her audience with the Queen
The day will also bring dinner with J.K. Rowling - cooked by celeb chef Jamie Oliver
The honorary distinction will recognize his services to U.K.-U.S. relations
The monumental quarterly loss revealed by U.S. insurance giant AIG of $62 billion is the largest in corporate history, amounting to about $460,000 per minute. The loss caused jaws to hit the floor around the world and left us wondering, what else would $62 billion buy?
Olympians, business leaders, designers and the lead singer of an iconic rock band are among those receiving New Year's honors from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, the Cabinet Office announced Wednesday.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II reflected Thursday on the economic and political crises sweeping the globe, acknowledging in her Christmas Day message their impact on holiday festivities.
About 60 miles north of San Francisco, the strip malls of Solano County give way to gently rolling hills where, as far as the eye can see, wind turbines sprout from the golden bluffs overlooking the Sacramento delta. Construction on Solano's newest turbine farm, Shiloh II, began this summer, part of a wind rush that has transformed the U.S. into the world's biggest wind market.
It's been a century or so since Britain ruled the waves, but Queen Elizabeth II will soon reign over the wind. Earlier this year the Crown Estate, which manages royal property worth $14 billion and controls the seas up to 14 miles off the British coast, agreed to purchase - for an undisclosed sum - the world's largest wind turbine.
Buckingham Palace accountants insisted Friday that the cost of maintaining Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family is a bargain for taxpayers
Queen Elizabeth and the royal family cost British taxpayers an average of 66 pence ($1.32) per person last year, Buckingham Palace announced Friday in its annual report of royal finances.
He may be on first name terms with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, but Nelson Mandela would never let his status go to his head.
The actress spends an hour with Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Ascot race meeting
Fergie's daughter spends Tuesday at the Royal Ascot with her granny, the Queen
Britain's Princess Eugenie has been reprimanded by her school after being caught frolicking naked on college grounds, it was reported Saturday.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth celebrates her 82nd birthday Saturday with a parade and military ceremony known as "Trooping the Color."
Zara Phillips, a member of the British royal family, has been selected to compete in the equestrian events at the Beijing Olympics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
(CNN) -- Monarch of the silver screen: Everything you wanted to know about the critically acclaimed movie "The Queen."
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.
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.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has said that the terrorists responsible for the bomb attacks on London "will not change our way of life."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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