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/ 19 October 2009
Judges for a $5-million prize recognising good governance in Africa said on Monday they had decided not to award the honour this year.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was battling to stay in his job on Friday after a minister quit calling for his resignation.
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/ 8 February 2008
The religious head of the Anglican church sparked an angry row in the United Kingdom on Friday after saying the adoption of some parts of sharia law alongside Britain’s legal system "seems unavoidable". Leaders across the political spectrum criticised Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’s call for "constructive accommodation".
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/ 21 November 2007
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced angry questions from lawmakers on Wednesday after confidential records containing nearly half the population’s bank details went missing in the post. The disappearance of about 25-million people’s personal data vanished in the biggest-ever loss of personal information by any government.
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/ 10 November 2007
The threat of serious flooding along England’s east coast receded on Friday after officials said the main tidal peak had passed, although storms were still causing problems elsewhere in Europe. High seas still threatened The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Norway and Sweden.
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/ 13 September 2007
As the pressure grows on the parents of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, support from their extended family, who have angrily denounced the police probe, has become stronger. The McCanns — named as formal suspects by Portuguese police last week — come from close Roman Catholic working-class families.
The fate of more English cities, towns and villages hung in the balance on Tuesday as emergency crews built up defences against rising waters during Britain’s worst floods in living memory. The government’s crisis-response committee met late on Monday and again on Tuesday as some rivers topped levels reached during the floods in 1947.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the scene of Britain’s worst flooding in 60 years on Monday as thousands of people remained stranded in their villages and towns, many without clean water or electricity. With swathes of central and western England under water and more rain on its way, Brown flew in a helicopter over the water-logged county of Gloucestershire.
British pop group the Spice Girls are to reform for a world tour spreading their ”girl power” message — including a stop in Cape Town — but it will only be a one-off event. The 1990s all-female band will play 11 dates in cities on six continents in December this year and January next year.
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/ 18 December 2006
British police on Monday arrested a man on suspicion of the murder of five prostitutes in the port town of Ipswich in a major breakthrough in a case that has gripped the nation. The unnamed 37-year-old man was arrested early on Monday morning at his home at Trimley, near the port town of Felixstowe, Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull told reporters.