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Whether she is writing about Bangladeshis in East London, as in her vivacious first novel, "Brick Lane" , or Portuguese villagers struggling to hold their own against an influx of affluent tourists, as in her more subdued novel-in-stories, "Alentejo Blue" , Monica Ali's focus is on the displaced.

DANCERS from Germany, a live ram and more than 100 types of beer will all feature in Derby's annual beer festival.

It's often been said, and rightfully so, that if you are free, thank a soldier, and if you can read, thank a teacher.

London Back in contention for the Ashes with his first five-wicket haul on English soil, Australian pacer Brett Lee says he has finally mastered reverse swing, which the Englishmen had used with destructive precision during the 2005 series.

Englishman attacked by cow herd, Ohio police on the hunt for a serial gum thief, a New Zealand teen defends himself with a violin and a shoplifter is caught with his pants down, sort of.

HAVING brilliantly satirised political spin, actor Peter Capaldi takes the director's chair for a new, dark comedy series.

A metaphor is a figure of speech using a word or phrase that usually means one thing to refer to something else.

On our first night in Cambridge I cursed out two learned Englishmen in gray suits.

Researchers found that Americans had better memories, were quicker witted and were generally smarter than their English counterparts.

Girl Scouts of Shawnee Council Inc. held its final "Young Women of Distinction" ceremony last month at the Best Western-Lee Jackson Hotel in Winchester.

From : Mike Stephan Date : Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:31:22 PDT Sebouh Aslanian: `Quedah Merchant was no ordinary vessel' reporter.am June 18, 2009 Expert puts legendary ship's story in historical context Earlier this month, Armenian Reporter Washington Editor Emil Sanamyan wrote about the recent discovery of a 17th-century Armenian ship, the Quedagh ...

LONDON - Guinness World Records said Friday that 113-year-old British World War I veteran Henry Allingham has become the world's oldest man.

The proverb "a dog runs for his amusement, and a rabbit runs for his life" fits the difference between Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps and Fritz Lang's first American espionage film, Man Hunt .

NORFORK - U.S. Army Field Artillery Group 406 landed on Omaha Beach around 4 p.m. 65 years ago today - D-Day - the largest military array of modern times.

A play performed in Shakespeare's London in the early 1600s may have "inspired" the man who led a famous mutiny against British explorer Henry Hudson, claims a new book probing the 400-year-old cold case from the dawn of Canadian history.

The man accused of shooting two U.S. Army privates in Little Rock, killing one, gets new legal counsel.

An official with the embassy in Yemen says Adbulhakim Muhammad, 23, was not tortured while he was held in prison for overstaying his visa.

The man accused of killing an Army private outside an Arkansas recruiting center never suffered torture or beatings while jailed on an immigration violation in Yemen, an official with the country's embassy said Friday.

The man accused of fatally shooting a soldier outside a recruiting center begged for FBI agents to free him from a Yemeni jail where he was "radicalized" by Islamic terrorists, his lawyer told The Associated Press on Thursday.

A Denver-based organization is hoping to partner with five Colorado counties - including Jefferson - to help Latino and Hispanic applicants with supplemental nutrition assistance, or food stamps.