We were at the eastern gate to the Libyan city of Ajdabiya 10 days ago trying to figure out which way the frontline was going when I first spotted Tim Hetherington out here. Tim Hetherington came bounding over, grinning broadly, cameras dripping from his neck. I teased him about his huge success with ‘Restrepo’, his [...]
The final Harry Potter movie is set to go out with a bang. Film bosses are keen to see the premiere of the last ever Harry Potter film a magical one. The screening of the final movie will be the first ever to be held at London’s iconic Trafalgar Square. The J.K. Rowling final book [...]
Britain’s coalition government survived the most serious challenge yet to its austerity plans on Thursday when Parliament narrowly approved a sharp increase in college fees. But violent student protests in central London, including an attack on a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, to the theater, provided a stark measure of growing public [...]
There’s a date and a place for next year’s nuptials of Prince William of Wales and his fiancé Catherine “Kate” Middleton: It will be April 29, 2011, at London’s Westminster Abbey, where British monarchs are crowned, wed and buried. Royal officials announced a few more details for the eagerly anticipated wedding on Tuesday, just seven [...]
Posted by uspostEuropeThursday, November 11th, 2010
Tens of thousands of students waving placards and chanting anti-government slogans marched through central London on Wednesday to protest plans to triple university costs as part of Britain’s radical deficit-reduction program. Organizers said about 50,000 students marched through the streets and around the Houses of Parliament, including small breakaway groups that vandalized a government building, [...]