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Marching Season In Northern Ireland: Who Are The Orangemen?

July 12th is one of the most important dates on the calendar for Northern Ireland?s Protestants for it commemorates the Battle of the Boyne of 1690 in which King William III (The Protestant William of Orange) defeated the Catholic King James II.
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Animal Testing In UK Increases, Draws Yowls From PETA

More animals were used in scientific procedures in Britain in 2011 than 2010, with particular increases in the use of cats, pigs, birds and fish as testing subjects, according to new numbers from the UK government.
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Fed Knew About Libor Issue In 2007-08, Proposed Reforms

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York may have known as early as August 2007 that the setting of global benchmark interest rates was flawed. Following an inquiry with British banking group Barclays Plc (NYSE: BSC) in the spring of 2008, it shared proposals for reform of the system with British authorities.
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ASEAN Hammers Out Code Of Conduct In South China Sea, Seeks China's Nod

Seeking to resolve the territorial tensions in the South China Sea, the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Monday hammered out the key elements of a code of conduct in the region which has been at the heart of recent maritime confrontations between China and the other nations in the Pacific.
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Kate Middleton Cover: Is The Satirical Image Of The Duchess' Rotten Teeth Funny Or Cruel?

A supposed cheap shot was taken at the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, when a magazine cover was photoshopped to look like her teeth were rotting out of her mouth.The New Republic morphed Middelton's chompers into the American stereotype of Britons for a special politics and arts issue regarding the future of Britain- - clearly, the magazine doesn't think much of their former motherland's future or their dentition.
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Germans Buck Trend With Love Of Newspapers

(Reuters) - The news: Americans love to publicly debate it, British people hardly ever pay for it online and Germans prefer to get theirs through more traditional means, according to a survey about media consumption released on Monday.

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