British Petroleum (BP) has signed a joint venture with Russian energy firm Rosneft to exploit potentially huge deposits of oil and gas in Russia’s Arctic shelf.
The “strategic global alliance” will see the firms exchange expertise in exploring the region.
Mila Kunis looks stunning on the Feb. 2011 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine, but until recently, the Golden Globe-nominated Black Swan star’s eyesight was anything but flawless. “I was blind in one eye for many years, and nobody knew,” a newly-single Kunis reveals to the women’s monthly. Cosmo is celebrating the mag’s pick for this year’s [...]
Twiing Too Hard? We thought the whole Twihard phenomenon was slowing grinding to a halt — after all, we now have The Golden Voice of Ted Williams to marvel over — but as it turns out the obsession with sparkly vampires is still alive and kicking, especially among middle-aged women in the UK. Cathy Ward, [...]
Prince William and Kate Middleton aren’t the only posh Brits getting hitched in the New Year: Will’s cousin Zara Phillips has joined the club! Phillips, the eldest granddaughter of Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth II, is engaged to wed her rugby star boyfriend Mike Tindall. The two have been a couple since 2003. Tindall, 32, [...]
British Prime Minister David Cameron has confirmed he has won France and Germany’s support to cap the European Union’s budget.
The EU’s next long-term spending plan (for seven years) begins in 2014.
Butter Up the English Muffins: Prince William’s getting hitched! On Tuesday, British royal Prince William, 28, confirmed that he is to set wed college sweetheart Kate Middleton — the daughter of self-made millionaires — next year. William proposed to Middleton during a vacation to Kenya last month and the happy news was announced by royal [...]
English tabloid newspaper The Sun has taken on the wildly-successful Old Spice “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” advertising campaign in a parody video celebrating the 40th anniversary of its infamous Page 3 Column, known for its racy photos of scantily-clad women. In the knee-slapping bit, model Rosie Jones stars in the video, putting [...]
A British pop singer who served in the military before launching his show business career says he “disobeyed orders to attack Russian soldiers in Kosovo”.
James Blunt, who rose to fame in 2005 and is currently promoting his new album, told the BBC on Sunday that he refused to obey an order coming from NATO Supreme Commander in Kosovo U.S. General Wesley Clark to attack Russian forces stationed at the Priština airport in June 1999.
Students smashed their way through windows into the ruling Conservative Party’s headquarters at Millbank Tower in Westminster this week, Deutsche Welle reports. Some made it to the roof of the building and hurled items down onto police below. Arrests were made as protestors surged back and forth against a police cordon outside Millbank and anti-government chanting rang out.
Questions are being asked of Britain’s largest police force regarding their handling of a student march which turned violent.
Protesters caused extensive damage to the Conservative party headquarters in central London.
British Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth says Serbs in Kosovo should take part in the forthcoming elections there. It is “the parliament in PriÅ¡tina takes decisions which concern their lives”, he told B92, and added that “this would not mean recognizing Kosovo’s independence, that is not an issue for individual persons but for states”.
A hacker exploited a SQL injection vulnerability on the Royal Navy Website to steal administrator passwords and usernames. – A hacker reportedly exploited a SQL injection vulnerability on the Website of Britain’s Royal Navy, according to media reports.
The incident took place Nov. 5, when a hacker known by the alias
TinKode is believed to have attacked the site and stolen passwords
and usernames. Right now, the si…
Fresh details emerged on Wednesday of British forces killing or wounding Afghan civilians.
The Guardian newspaper obtained documents from the Ministry of Defence under the UK’s freedom of information legislation. The files show three British military units killed or wounded civilians on 21 occasions.
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says allegations of prisoner abuse and civilian killings in Iraq are “extremely serious” and must be investigated. Clegg told BBC television (The Andrew Marr Show) Sunday that while the actions of British forces in Iraq “need to be looked at,” it would be up to the U.S. administration to answer for the behavior of its own troops.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague has stated that Britain fully supports Serbia’s EU integration. He added that he is in favor of improving economic cooperation between the two countries.
Britain’s public deficit has hit a record high, as the government prepared to announce massive spending cuts to slash the country’s huge debt. The National Statistics Office said the public deficit rose to 20.7 billion pounds ($32.5 billion) in September.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed concern over British plans to cut defense spending.
Speaking to the BBC, Clinton said maintaining NATO as the most successful defense alliance “in the history of the world” requires all 28 member nations, like Britain, make “appropriate contributions.”
Minister for Europe in the British Foreign Office David Lidington has condemned the violence that has taken place in Kosovska Mitrovica recently. He called on the citizens of Kosovo to resolve their problems in a peaceful way.
