<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - United Kingdom</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><description>United Kingdom</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[Blair Wins Historic Third Term]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41614-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41614-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  LONDON, May 6  --  Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, the Bush administration's closest foreign ally,  won a historic third successive term in office but  appeared to have a significantly smaller parliamentary majority because of voter anger over his support for the war in Iraq.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For British Voters, Calculated Risks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41504-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41504-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  LONDON, May 6  --  Jean Campbell was squeezed into a second-floor office in west London on Thursday afternoon, methodically calling a list of voters. With seven hours until the polls closed, she and two co-workers were working feverishly to prevent the Conservatives from snatching a parliamentary seat away from Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In N.Y., Grenades Explode Near British Consulate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41437-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41437-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  NEW YORK, May 5  --  Two makeshift grenades exploded outside the British consulate here in the predawn hours just as polls opened for  national elections in Britain. A large windowpane at the building's entrance shattered, but officials reported no injuries.]]></description><author> Michelle Garcia</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['A Child of Our Time' Indeed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35306-2005May4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35306-2005May4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When  one considers all the first-rate authors England, Scotland and Wales have given the world, it is discouraging to try to tally a similarly distinguished list of British classical composers. To be sure, there were Orlando Gibbons and Henry Purcell in the 17th century and Arthur Sullivan in the 19th (although Sullivan seemed to need the words of his creative partner, the playwright W.S. Gilbert, to lift him above the mundane, and that worked only some of the time). In the 20th century, a good deal of admirable and expressive music was created by Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten, but even their most ardent champions would find it difficult to claim that theirs was on a level with the best work produced in Germany, France, Russia or Finland.]]></description><author> Tim Page</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blair in a Race To Realize Vision, Define His Legacy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35364-2005May4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35364-2005May4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  LONDON, May 3  --  Prime Minister Tony Blair remains the most skilled political performer in Britain, but his drive toward Thursday's election and what he hopes will be a historic third term often appears to be a joyless march, in striking contrast with the bright promise of his first election in 1997.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Election Looms, Tony Blair Basks  In Warmth of the Sun]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35472-2005May4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35472-2005May4.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LONDON, May 3  --  Never  mind the polls and the speeches and the brutal grilling of national political leaders on a range of TV and radio shows. If you really want to know what the British public thinks of the general election taking place here Thursday, have a look at Tuesday's Sun.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blair Takes His Lumps Before Vote]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28800-2005May1.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28800-2005May1.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LONDON, April 30  --  After a punishing day on the campaign trail, Tony Blair faced one last challenge Thursday night: a live BBC television studio audience eager for combat.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Britannia came to rule those waves.By Daniel I. Davidson]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24380-2005Apr29.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24380-2005Apr29.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sir Walter Raleigh, the Elizabethan adventurer, believed that "Hee that commaunds the sea, commaunds the trade, and hee that is Lord of the trade of the world is Lord of the wealth of the worlde." In the mid-16th century, England commanded little. Spain controlled the vast wealth of the New World, and when its monarch inherited Portugal in 1580, he added the world's second-largest empire to its largest. France, for its part, had a population perhaps four times larger than England's.]]></description><author> Daniel I. Davidson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Soccer Films, Few Shots on Goal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25690-2005Apr29.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25690-2005Apr29.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Rugby  has "This Sporting Life." "Breaking Away" is cycling's shining star. The marquee feature for track and field is "Chariots of Fire." The list goes on with nearly every major sport and several minor ones producing classic sports films: horse racing ("Seabiscuit"), hockey ("Slap Shot"), basketball ("Hoosiers"), skiing ("Downhill Racer"). Fans are spoiled for choice when it comes to football, baseball and boxing films, and even pool has a claim to excellence ("The Hustler").]]></description><author> Randy Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Actress, Writer Kay Walsh]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21664-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21664-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Kay Walsh, a subtle but expressive actress who starred in some of the finest British films of the 1940s and helped her then-husband, David Lean, emerge as a director, died April 16 in London. No cause of death was reported. She was in her early nineties.]]></description><author> Adam Bernstein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel Agent: Jackson Aide Ordered Ticket To Brazil for Boy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18720-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18720-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  SANTA MARIA, Calif., April 26  --  In  those hectic days in February 2003, after a British documentary aired that had Michael Jackson saying he saw nothing wrong with sharing his bed with children, his business associate ordered Jackson's travel agent to get one-way airline tickets to fly the young accuser in his current trial, along with the boy's brother, sister and mother, to Sao Paulo, Brazil.]]></description><author> William Booth</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Vote Nears, Tories Can't Get Started]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18551-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18551-2005Apr27.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NOTTINGHAM, England  --  Michael Howard was hammering home the need for more policemen on the beat before a television studio audience the other day in this city in central England where the rate of gun crime has soared in recent years.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deadly Poisons and Their Known Anecdotes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16471-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16471-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The guy doesn't feel good. He complains that his stomach hurts. His doctors at the University of Virginia can't figure it out. They keep running tests.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12416-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 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</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12561-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/westerneurope/unitedkingdom</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 18:01:50 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></channel></rss>