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Government Vows to Improve Rape Conviction Rate
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:49:00 AM
The government and police will promise on Wednesday to take action to improve the low rate of conviction for rape, saying more will be done to help victims.   Full Story
 

Ex-MI5 Chief Calls 42-Day Detention Unworkable
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:48:00 AM
LONDON—Proposals to let police detain terrorism suspects for up to six weeks without charge are wrong in principle and unworkable in practice, former intelligence chief Eliza Manningham-Buller said on ...   Full Story
 

Builder Discovers 'Priceless' Tolkien Postcard
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:47:00 AM
LONDON—A demolition man stripping a fireplace from the former home of "The Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien stumbled across a postcard to the writer dated 1968, and hopes to sell it for a smal ...   Full Story
 

Police Quiz Man Over Murdered French Students
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:46:00 AM
LONDON—Police were given extra time to question a man on Tuesday in their widening probe into the brutal murder of two French students killed last week in a frenzied knife attack and then burned in a ...   Full Story
 

British Mercenary Gets 34 Years in Jail
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:49:00 AM
MALABO—British mercenary Simon Mann was jailed for 34 years by a court in Equatorial Guinea on Monday for a failed 2004 coup plot in which he said former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's son was ...   Full Story
 

Artists Go Zero-Gravity Painting
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:48:00 AM
A group of British artists will take a giant leap for art when they attempt to produce masterpieces in zero gravity conditions on board a plane in Russia on Tuesday.   Full Story
 

Russia Seen to Back Litvinenko Murder
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:47:00 AM
The Russian state backed the murder in London of former KGB agent and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, according to British security sources quoted by the BBC on Monday.   Full Story
 

Boy, 14, Becomes Latest London Knife Victim
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:46:00 AM
A 14-year-old boy has died in a London hospital after being stabbed last month, police said on Monday.   Full Story
 

Report Calls for New Look at Biofuels
Monday, July 07, 2008 6:49:00 AM
A British government report on food policy to be published on Monday says the link between demand for biofuels and rising world food prices needs to be more closely examined.   Full Story
 

Parents of Murdered French Student Appeal to Killer
Monday, July 07, 2008 6:48:00 AM
LONDON—The parents of one of the two French students murdered in London a week ago in a frenzied knife attack appealed on Sunday for the killer to come forward and said they would not rest until the g ...   Full Story
 

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