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The former mayor of London took to Press TV, an Iranian state-run network, recently to express his disdain for the Bush White House and his assurance that the Boston Marathon bombings were brought upon the United States because of its injustices abroad.
Stella McCartney, who designed the uniforms worn by Britain's record-smashing Olympic team, and Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the so-called "God particle," are among the hundreds being honored by Queen Elizabeth II this New Year's.
Stella McCartney, who designed the uniforms worn by Britain's record-smashing Olympic team, and Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the so-called "God particle," are among the hundreds being honored by Queen Elizabeth II this New Year.
Stella McCartney, who designed the uniforms worn by Britain's record-smashing Olympic team, and Scottish physicist Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the so-called "God particle," are among the hundreds being honored by Queen Elizabeth II this New Year.
London's rumpled, comic and outspoken Boris Johnson has won a second term as mayor of the British capital, triumphing in a surprisingly close election that installs the unvarnished and unpredictable Conservative as host of the 2012 Olympics.
One sports an unruly blond mop, spouts Latin aphorisms and loves to ride his bicycle. The other is a neat, newt-loving socialist who prefers to travel by subway.
She went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands and faced down the powerful National Union of Mineworkers. But one of the hardest things Margaret Thatcher ever did, according to newly released personal papers, was attend a West End farce with herself as the central character.
LONDON — Impassive and staring straight ahead, a British-born Iraqi doctor was led into court by plainclothes security officers yesterday, the first suspect to appear on charges of plotting to bomb London's entertainment district and Scotland's busiest airport.
The notion that, somehow, the cause of Islamist terrorism is "us," the West, persists. And so this weekend's thwarted United Kingdom car bombings have prompted yet another "Why do they hate us?" moment. The West's own preferred answer, it seems, must always be some offense we have committed. London Mayor Ken Livingstone thinks Iraq is driving "disaffected young Muslims" to murderous self-immolation, in apparent ignorance or disregard that three of the suspects are medical doctors. The New York Times refers to a "disenfranchised South Asian population" — this, in one of the world's free democracies. Others finger Salman Rushdie's knighthood as an incitement of Muslim outrage. Still others say Israel-Palestine. Others, poverty.
"Very often, people get incredibly angry about injustices that they see," Ken Livingstone said Friday, according to a transcript by the Middle East Media Research Institute, a nonprofit.
Former London mayor blames the U.S. for Boston bombing attack →
But Ken Livingstone, London's former mayor, said Saturday he turned down a commander of the Order of the British Empire, or CBE, recognizing his services to the Olympics because he doesn't believe politicians should get the queen's honors.
Stella McCartney, Ewan McGregor among queen's New Year's honorees →
