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  • ** FILE ** Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher waves to members of the media on Monday, June 29, 2009, upon returning to her home in London from the hospital after suffering a broken arm. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

    Embassy Row: First impression

    The U.S. Embassy in London found her "imperious" and "patronizing," with a "quick, if not profound, mind" and "frightfully English to boot."


  • Possible Wintour appointment gets London talking

    Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams ... and now Anna Wintour?


  • Inside Politics: British tabloids take aim at Wintour talk

    Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams and now Anna Wintour?


  • This photo taken from PA video shows police outside a house in Cadogan Place, Chelsea, after the body of Eva Rausing, a member of the family behind the Tetra-Pak drinks carton empire and one of the richest women in Britain was found, Tuesday July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/PA Video, Leanne Rinne)

    U.K. police: Heir's wife found dead in London

    One of Britain's richest women, American-born Eva Rausing, was found dead in her west London home and a man was arrested in connection with the case, British police said, adding that an autopsy had failed to uncover a formal cause of death.


  • World Briefs: Transition leader predicts Islamists won't rule country

    Libya's outgoing leader on Wednesday described the recently held parliamentary elections as a "miracle" and said he does not expect Islamists to rule the country.


  • Internet chatter up on bin Laden revenge attacks

    Pipe bombs, a targeted car crash, a lone gunman: Western intelligence officials said Friday they are seeing increased Internet and phone chatter about cheap, small-scale terror attacks to avenge the death of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.


  • ** FILE ** Abdel Baset al-Megrahi (Associated Press)

    Britain slammed in Lockerbie 'charade'

    Relatives of the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing denounced the British government Tuesday, after learning more about London's private contacts with Libya over the release of the only man convicted in the terrorist attack over Scotland that killed 190 Americans.


  • Embassy Row

    Nearly one-third of Muslim college students in Britain support killing in the name of religion, while 40 percent want to live under Islamic law, according to a secret cable from the U.S. Embassy in London that reviewed public polling data and government population predictions.


  • This is an undated file photo, issued by the Crown Office, of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Libyan man found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing. (Associated Press/Crown Office, File)

    Embassy Row

    President Obama's top counterterrorism aide denounced Scotland's decision last year to release the Lockerbie bomber as a "travesty" and categorically denied a widespread report that the United States secretly endorsed the decision to free the Libyan terrorist, who was sentenced to life in prison.


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