On Tuesday Prince William, British Prime Minister David Cameron and David Beckham arrived in Zurich to help England’s 2018 bid. They hope to limit the potential damage caused by a BBC television investigation that accused four Fifa voters of corruption. On this occasion David Beckham made a surprise visit to a gyms class at a [...]
Posted by uspostWorldThursday, November 18th, 2010
Royal courtiers are already pondering how to tailor the ceremony to the austere times and Britons have started betting in earnest on the likely date for the wedding of Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton. The wedding — which according to one estimate will boost Britain’s economy by nearly $1 billion — has been widely [...]
Posted by uspostEuropeWednesday, November 17th, 2010
Prince William and Kate Middleton are engaged and will marry next year, Clarence House announced today. William, 28, proposed during a holiday in Kenya last month after asking Kate’s father for his daughter’s hand following a marathon eight-year courtship. Kate, also 28, had been dubbed ‘Waity Katy’ amid criticism she was hanging on for a [...]
Kate Middleton has been the subject of intense press attention ever since she began dating Prince William, whom she met at St Andrews University in 2001. Unlike her royal fiance, whose every move since birth has been obsessively tracked in the tabloids, life in the media spotlight has proved a new and unsettling experience for [...]
Hu Jintao has been named the most powerful person in the world by Forbes, ahead of US President Barack Obama who is ranked second among 68 people “who matter,” a list that also includes Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Gandhi ranks 9th on the Forbes 2010 list of the ‘World’s Most [...]