<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Lobbyist Paid for DeLay's Airfare]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12416-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12416-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[House ethics rules bar lawmakers from accepting travel and related expenses from registered lobbyists. The House Majority Leader has said that his expenses on a 2000 trip were paid by a nonprofit organization, and that the financial arrangements for it were proper.]]></description><author> R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Leading Man and Oscar Winner John Mills, 97]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12561-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12561-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[John Mills, 97, a distinguished and wide-ranging actor who excelled on camera as an appealing British Everyman and dutiful soldier, died April 23 at his home in Denham, west of London.]]></description><author> Adam Bernstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major Liquor Firms To Join and Take On Global Leader Diageo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7984-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7984-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LONDON, April 21  --  Pernod Ricard SA on Thursday launched a much-anticipated friendly takeover of its larger British rival Allied Domecq PLC, a $14 billion deal that would make the combined entity the second-largest liquor company and a more serious challenger to world leader Diageo PLC.]]></description><author> Jane Wardell</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radar Used to Track Butterflies' Loops]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61017-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61017-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Researchers have developed a customized radar tracking approach, in which insects are fitted with electronic "transponders" that yield the first real-time mapping of the flight paths of  butterflies in an agricultural setting.]]></description><author> Rick Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Support for War Puts Labor MP's Seat in Jeopardy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61459-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61459-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For Britain's ruling Labor Party there are few more loyal strongholds than the Bethnal Green and Bow district in London's East End, a blue-collar enclave of public housing complexes, small shops and recent immigrants. But this time around the party's candidate is in trouble here, and the reason is simple: the war in Iraq.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Ricin Finding Called a False Positive]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49564-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49564-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The claim that traces of the deadly poison ricin had been found in the London apartment of alleged al Qaeda operatives, first broadcast around the world in early January 2003, has been proved wrong, a senior British official said yesterday.]]></description><author> Walter Pincus</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indictment Cites Plans to Target Financial Hubs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46550-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46550-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Three British nationals being held on terrorism charges in the United Kingdom have been indicted in the United States on related allegations.]]></description><author> Dan Eggen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Many, It's Back to the State]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42239-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42239-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush's social security plan closely echoes the privatization plan that then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher implemented in Britain in the late 1980s -- a plan that fell flat for many investors.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Windsor, a Royal Pain]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40693-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40693-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For many locals in historic town, it's not lovelier the second time around.]]></description><author> Glenda Cooper</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Royal Knot Is Tied at Long Last]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40507-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40507-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The heir to the British throne and his longtime paramour were wed in a sedate and unadorned civil ceremony behind closed doors at the local clerk's office.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Blood, Old Ideas: Horror's Familiar Scripts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37402-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37402-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hollywood is gripped by horror.<br>Opinions are divided as to whether the current glut of movies that fall inside the very porous boundary of classic horror  --  with vividly suggestive titles, relatively modest budgets, lack of expensive star names  --  is a welcome dose of lifeblood to an...]]></description><author> Bridget rne</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Caterpillar  To Monarch Butterfly]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32900-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32900-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[LONDON<br> According  to the Daily Mirror, when Prince Charles learned that the pope's funeral had been scheduled for the same day as his wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles, he wailed, "Why me?"]]></description><author> Tina Brown</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blair Sets National Election For May 5]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27113-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27113-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LONDON, April 5  --  Prime Minister Tony Blair called a national election for May 5, revealing the worst-kept secret in British politics and starting what could be the first closely fought campaign in more than a decade.]]></description><author> Glenda Cooper</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dowdy Partner]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21104-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21104-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There are any number of striking aspects to Camilla Parker Bowles's fashion sense, but the most startling is that, after more than a decade in the public eye, it does not seem to have changed at all.]]></description><author> Robin Givhan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Antiquities Sleuth Has a Fraud Mandate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8428-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8428-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Anthropologist Jane MacLaren Walsh finds a certain joy in being stumped and a delicious satisfaction in spotting a forgery.]]></description><author> Jacqueline Trescott</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princely Passions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8191-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8191-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[COCKERMOUTH, England<br> The black Audi sedan pulls up at the Lakeland Livestock Centre at exactly 11:40 a.m. and a middle-aged man in a smart gray double-breasted suit and gleaming cordovan brogues leaps out. He heads straight for Marjorie Faulder and her West Highland terrier.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Europe, Sticker Shock for First-Time Buyers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1223-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1223-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  LONDON  --  Jack Bowley was tired of paying rent each month with nothing to show for it and wanted to buy a home in London, where he works. But given how swiftly prices were rising, and how much of a down payment he would need for a mortgage, he couldn't reach even the first rung of the property ladder.]]></description><author> Thomas Wagner</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Magical Mystery Tour]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61700-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61700-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[LONDON, March 23<br> The four long-haired young men from Liverpool were a half-hour late when they poured into Studio Two at EMI Records on Abbey Road on June 6, 1962. They raced nervously through a ragged set of songs, while a producer named George Martin listened to the audition from the...]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[E.U. Wavers on Allowing Arms Sales to Beijing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56977-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56977-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The European Union's consensus to lift a 15-year embargo has fallen apart under increasing pressure from the United States, a new Chinese threat to Taiwan and intensified criticism at home.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Masters; Author,  Art Director, Designer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58552-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58552-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Peter Masters, 83, who escaped Austria in his teens and fought in a British commando unit during World War II, and who later became a prominent television art director and government graphic designer, died March 21 of a heart attack while playing tennis at Georgetown Preparatory School in Rockville. He lived in Bethesda.]]></description><author> Matt Schudel</author></item></channel></rss>