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• U.K. government to partially nationalize banks
LONDON - The British government announced plans on Wednesday to partially nationalize major banks, with taxpayers taking a share stake in a bid to restore stability. The Treasury made the announcement a half hour before markets opened, saying eight ...
• U.K. official says Taliban talks may be necessary
LONDON - Decisive military victory in Afghanistan is impossible and the Taliban may well be part of a long-term solution for the country, the senior British commander in Afghanistan was quoted as saying Sunday. The Sunday Times newspaper quoted Brig ...
• U.K. university probes 'Nazi' initiation video
LONDON - A British university is investigating a video of binge-drinking undergraduates taking part in a bizarre initiation ceremony with a student dressed like a Nazi officer. The University of Gloucestershire said on Thursday it would try to trace ...
• Classy check-bouncer faces sentencing in U.K.
Oct. 1: European Union monitors enter a buffer zone on the edge of Georgia's separatist province of South Ossetia. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports. LONDON - A woman who admits using bad checks to buy art and jewels worth some 2 million pounds (US$3.6 ...
• Guess what? There's no harm in a little gossip
Even though gossip has negative connotations (the work of small, unbusy minds, or of shrews), "gossip can be very positive," says Eric K. Foster, a social psychologist in Philadelphia and a study director at Temple University. A few years ago, he ...