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ARTICLES BY DAVID STRINGER

Man killed amid Britain's post-Christmas sales

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Pope calm after six nabbed in suspected terror plot

LONDON - Police raided a garbage depot and arrested street cleaners in a suspected terror plot against Pope Benedict XVI on Friday. Undeterred, the pontiff stuck to his message, reaching across Britain's religious and secular divide to demand a greater role for faith in public life.
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Queen outlines plans for new coalition government

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II delivered a somber message of austerity Tuesday in a speech outlining the plans of Britain's new coalition government - setting out a program for sharp curbs to public spending, new regulation of the financial sector and changes to the centuries-old political system.
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Brown calls voter a bigot in UK campaign gaffe

LONDON - Britain's Prime Minister blundered into the first major gaffe in his country's short campaign season Wednesday when an open microphone captured him slamming a voter he'd just been trying to win over.
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Enlightening with darkness

LONDON - Europe's best known landmarks - including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome's Colosseum - fell dark Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Forbidden City in joining a global climate change protest, as lights were switched off across the world to mark the Earth Hour event.Millions of …
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