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Luxury hotels put on special packages for royal wedding

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Remembrance Sunday: UK events mark the nation's war dead

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Royal Mail will seek an injunction to try to stop planned 48-hour strike

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Breaking with tradition in a rare duet between two ballerinas

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Sublime submarines: How sea warfare could look in 2067

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Doctors using Snapchat to send patient scans to each other, panel finds

DoctorsareusingSnapchattosendpatientscanstoeachother,apanelofhealthandtechexpertshasfound,concludingthe“digitalrevolutionhaslargelybypassedtheNHS”.Cliniciansuse

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Queen to receive £6m pay increase from public funds

The Queen is to receive an 8% increase in income from public funds, after the Crown Estate's profits rose by £24m.

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National Museum unveils Louvre treasures

​The National Museum of China Friday opened an exhibition featuring 126 treasures from France's Louvre Museum.

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Oil giant Shell faces London court over Nigeria pollution claim

A legal case on behalf of more than 40,000 Nigerians against the global oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has started in the High Court in London.

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Chinese tourists arrested in Sydney for public urination

On Oct. 29, two Chinese tourists from Wenzhou, Zhejiang province were arrested by patrolling police officers from the New South Wales Police Force after being caught urinating in Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden.

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Cambodia to inter late King Sihanouk's ashes in stupa

Cambodia on Thursday began a three-day elaborate ceremony to transfer the ashes of the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk from the Royal Palace to a stupa in the opulent Silver Pagoda.

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Brunei naval ship departs for Qingdao to join drills

A total crew of 69 Royal Brunei Navy (RBN) personnel including attachments set sail on their vessel KDB DARULEHSAN on Monday to attend the Western Pacific Naval Symposium and join the Multilateral Maritime Exercise (MMEx) to be held in Qingdao, a port city in east China’s Shandong province.

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British navy vessels continue hunt for missing Malaysian Airlines plane

British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Echo and submarine HMS Tireless continued their hunt for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that went missing on March 8, the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced Wednesday.

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Sweden's newborn princess named Leonore

Sweden's newborn princess, daughter of Princess Madeleine and her husband Christopher O'Neill, was named as Leonore Lilian Maria, with the title Duchess of Gotland, local media reported on Wednesday.