India announced on Wednesday the purchase of 43 planes from European aircraft maker Airbus and the sealing of an "action plan" with the European Union to expand economic and political ties, while British Prime Minister Tony Blair railed against terrorism.
Terrorists are sizing up the City of London, Europe’s premier financial centre, and an attack on the teeming district is only a matter of time, its chief of police warned on Wednesday. A debate continues to rage over how to deal with hard-line Islamists suspected of promoting terrorism among Britain’s 1,6-million Muslims.
Leaders of the world’s eight richest and most powerful nations converge on a heavily-guarded luxury Scottish golf resort on Wednesday, facing the daunting twin challenges of pulling Africa out of dire poverty and slamming the brakes on global warming.
‘Tis the season for youngsters to get some quality face time with Father Christmas — if they can still find him, that is. For as long as anyone can remember, it’s been a Christmas tradition in Britain for children to have a department-store tête-à-tête with Santa Claus, out of earshot of Mom and Dad.
The family of Britain’s Princess Diana said on Thursday they were ”shocked and sickened” by the United States broadcast of paparazzi images of her dying in a Paris car crash. The fuzzy pictures, aired on Wednesday by CBS, came from a French investigation into the August 1997 crash in Paris.
Eight people were arrested under Britain’s anti-terrorist laws on Tuesday in police raids in and around London. The raids also netted half a tonne of a fertiliser that could be used to make a bomb. London has been on guard against a potential attack since the Madrid train bombings.
Alistair Cooke, a broadcasting legend in his native Britain and adopted United States, has died, less than a month after he recorded his final Letter from America, BBC radio said on Tuesday. Cooke passed away at about midnight local time on Monday at his home in New York.
Anti-terrorist police quizzed four British Muslims on Wednesday, a day after their release from United States custody at Guantanamo Bay, as a fifth savoured freedom for the first time in two years. All five men returned on a flight from the naval base in Cuba where the US holds about 650 alleged al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
