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Royal baby on way: UK Prince William's wife Kate Middleton goes into labour

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London: Prince William's wife Kate Middleton has gone into labour and been admitted to hospital for the birth of the couple's first child, who will be third in line to the British throne, his office

Driverless car to be tested in Britain

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London: The first ever trial of self-driving cars on Britain’s busy roads will take place later this year.
Researchers from the Oxford University have been working with Japanese multinational automak

Britain set to honour VK Krishna Menon

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London: India’s first high commissioner in London and former defence minister V.K. Krishna Menon will be honoured with a blue plaque in a commemoration ceremony on Wednesday afternoon.
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British royal baby has mixed lineage

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Paris: Even before the birth of the new British royal baby to Prince William and his wife Kate, genealogists are looking into its family tree, and are coming up with many surprises.
 
The baby’s re

Britain pushes ahead with ‘3-parent’ fertility technique

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The British government on Thursday said it would pursue a radical fertility technique that uses DNA from three parents to create an embryo.

Meet Amol, UK’s first non-white editor

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London: Britain’s first non-white editor of a national newspaper Amol Rajan drea­med of cricketing glory and not bylines as he grew up in London.
The 29-year-old, who will formally take over as the e

Kate Middleton opts for natural childbirth: Royal aides

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London: Kate Middleton, pregnant with her first child, has decided to give birth naturally rather than opting for a Caesarian section and Prince William will be by her side throughout the delivery, a

Queen secretly loves blunders

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London: Queen Elizabeth II dutifully sits through endless hours of displays of military pomp rehearsed to the second — and secretly loves it when everything goes wrong, Britain’s pageant master said

Cameron not in favour of curbing freedom of British press

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British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday indicated he would reject a senior judge's recommendations for new laws to control the country's press despite the publication of a damning report.

UK probe urges new laws for ‘rogue’ press

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Britain should introduce the first press law since the 17th century to rein-in an 'outrageous' press that had 'wreaked havoc' in the lives of innocent people, a major inquiry set up after the phone-ha

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