Posts Tagged ‘charles’

VIDEO: Prince Charles turns his hand to DJing

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Prince Charles proved to be a dab-hand as a DJ on a visit to a youth centre music studio in Canada.

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Prince set to meet Canada chiefs

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Prince Charles is to take part in a gathering of first nations chiefs as part of his four-day Diamond Jubilee tour of Canada.

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Taylor says witnesses ‘bought’

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Liberian ex-President Charles Taylor accuses the prosecution of paying witnesses to testify against him in his war crimes trial in The Hague.

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Takeover deal for Rangers agreed

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

Former Sheffield United chief executive Charles Green agrees a deal to buy Scottish Premier League club Rangers.

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Green fronts Rangers takeover bid

Friday, May 11th, 2012

The group in pole position to buy Rangers is fronted by former Sheffield United chief executive Charles Green.

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VIDEO: Prince Charles presents the weather

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Prince Charles presents a special weather forecast during a visit to BBC Scotland’s headquarters in Glasgow.

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VIDEO: Prince Charles presents the weather

VIDEO: Lasting scars of S Leone conflict

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

People in Sierra Leone are awaiting the verdict of former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s war crimes trial, 10 years on from the end of the civil war.

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Tolkien and Dickens join for book

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

A grandson of JRR Tolkien and a descendant of Charles Dickens are to collaborate on two new fantasy books for children.

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Turbulence shakes plane, 12 hurt

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

Several people were reported injured on a United Airlines flight that encountered turbulence over Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Wednesday, said Lynn Lunsford of the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Cato Institute and Koch in Rift Over Independence

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

The Cato Institute says that Charles Koch’s Republican activism threatens its reputation for independent research.

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When Dickens fell out with America

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

On his first visit to America in 1842, English novelist Charles Dickens was greeted like a modern rock star. But the trip soon turned sour, as Simon Watts reports.

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When Dickens fell out with America

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

On his first visit to America in 1842, English novelist Charles Dickens was greeted like a modern rock star. But the trip soon turned sour, as Simon Watts reports.

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Did Dickens really save poor children and clean up the slums?

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

From Oliver Twist to A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens highlighted poverty and squalor. But did he really help change things?

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Did Dickens really save poor children and clean up the slums?

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

From Oliver Twist to A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens highlighted poverty and squalor. But did he really help change things?

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Did Dickens really save poor children and clean up the slums?

Prince optimistic for fisheries

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Prince Charles says there is a reason to be optimistic about the state of the world’s oceans, but it is “critically urgent” to tackle overfishing.

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