Henry VIII News
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Swan meat has disappeared from the menu at a hotel restaurant on the Baltic island of Ruegen after protests from environmentalists in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s home constituency.
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Since its founding in 1350, Trinity Hall, one of the University of Cambridge’s 31 colleges, has endured the plague and the English Reformation. Now it is taking on the banking business.
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Witnessed from across the Atlantic, the U.K.’s heated debate over Justice Brian Leveson’s inquiry into the press after a phone-hacking scandal must be startling.
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Pope Benedict XVI criticized Catholic Church officials for not acting quickly enough against priests accused of sexually abusing minors, as he arrived in the U.K. for the first papal visit to the country in 28 years.
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Almost five centuries since King Henry VIII split from the Catholic Church, the pope arrived in Britain today for a first state visit, with protesters waiting along with Queen Elizabeth II to greet him.
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Hilary Mantel has won the Costa Book of the Year award for “Bring Up the Bodies,” the first time an author has received that prize and the Man Booker Prize for the same novel. She accepted the honor, which comes with a check for 30,000 pounds ($47,250), during a champagne reception at London restaurant Quaglino’s.
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“Let’s just say, I think this is my time,” Anna Netrebko suggested after her performance in “Anna Bolena” at the Metropolitan Opera’s opening gala last night.
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Prime Minister David Cameron urged former British colonies to back his proposal to end rules that discriminate against women and Roman Catholics succeeding to the throne.
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Fixer-in-chief Thomas Cromwell is back with a new mission: to dispatch the queen he helped create.
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How should New York City assign students to schools? How should young doctors be matched with residencies? How should lifesaving kidneys be allocated to desperate patients?
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