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Thatcher papers show fascination with Reagan visit
Few people keep Queen Elizabeth II waiting, especially when she has issued a personal invitation, but President Ronald Reagan managed to do so in 1982 ...
Pope's Christmas message focuses on Mideast, China
In his Christmas message to the world Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to the slaughter in Syria and for more meaningful negotiations ...
Queen delivers 1st Christmas message in 3D
Queen Elizabeth II has hailed the holidays in a new dimension, delivering her Christmas message for the first time in 3D. In the annual, prerecorded ...
Britain: Charges possible in royal prank call case
Prosecutors are weighing whether to press charges over a royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's apparent suicide, police said Saturday.
Prince William to spend Christmas with the in-laws
Prince William will spend Christmas with his pregnant wife Kate and his in-laws in the southern England village of Bucklebury, royal officials said ...
Queen Elizabeth II goes 3D for Christmas message
She made her acting debut at the London Olympics. Now Queen Elizabeth II is hitting the screen again — in 3D. Buckingham Palace says the monarch was ...
Queen Elizabeth II attends UK Cabinet meeting
Queen Elizabeth II sat in on a Cabinet meeting Tuesday for the first time, taking a seat between British Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign ...
Family attends duped nurse's funeral in India
Family and friends of the nurse found hanging in her room days after she had been duped by a royal hoax call from Australian DJs gathered in a church ...
Sympathy over US school shooting stretches globe
As the world joined Americans in mourning the school massacre in Connecticut, many urged U.S. politicians to honor the 28 victims, especially the ...
Mass held for nurse in British royal hoax
A service was held in London on Saturday to mourn the death of a nurse found hanging in her room three days after she had been duped by a hoax call ...
Queen Elizabeth II gets art trove as jubilee gift
What do you get the woman who has everything? Britain's Royal Academy of Arts has presented Queen Elizabeth II with works by some of the country's ...
Inquest: Nurse in British royal hoax found hanging
A nurse was found hanging in her room three days after she had been duped by a hoax call from Australian DJs about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, ...
Financial crisis explained to Queen Elizabeth II
In 2008, Queen Elizabeth II asked academics why no one saw the financial crisis coming. On Thursday, she finally got an answer. Sujit Kapadia from the ...
Autopsy results on nurse in hoax due out Thursday
The result of an autopsy on the nurse involved in a prank call for information about the former Kate Middleton's hospital stay will be revealed ...
Trading soccer for wickets in Nigeria cricket boom
Near the parade ground that Queen Elizabeth II once toured when Nigeria was still under British rule, the sharp crack of a ball against a bat marks ...
Sikh soldier wears turban on palace guard duty
Britain's Ministry of Defense says a Sikh soldier has become the first guardsman to parade outside Buckingham Palace while wearing his traditional ...
Australian DJs apologize for royal hoax call
They say they expected a hang-up and a few laughs. Instead, the Australian DJs behind a hoax phone call to the London hospital where the pregnant ...
Australian radio chair: Station reviewing policy
The reverberations from the death of a nurse who accepted a hoax phone call about the ill Duchess of Cambridge spread through two countries Sunday, ...
Anger at Australian radio station over royal hoax
It started out as a joke, but ended in tragedy. The sudden death of a nurse who unwittingly accepted a prank call to a London hospital about Prince ...
UK hospital: Nurse involved in Kate hoax call dies
The news that Prince William and the former Kate Middleton were expecting their first child — joyous news for a couple looking forward to starting a ...
Hospital: Nurse involved in Kate hoax call dies
A nurse who fell victim to a prank telephone call seeking information about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge has died, the London hospital where she ...
Pregnant Kate discharged from London hospital
The Duchess of Cambridge left a London hospital Thursday after being treated for acute morning sickness related to her pregnancy. Clutching a small ...