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Paul Durant, 47, told a Spanish court he battered mother-of-two Karen Durrell, 41, to death with a mallet at her home on the Costa Blanca.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>160</score><crdate>11/9/2007 10:11:43 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-09T10:11:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>123322</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/123322/1/</url><title><![CDATA[British Airways asks staff to work for free]]></title><description><![CDATA[British Airways has asked its 40,000 staff to work without pay for up to a month as the ailing airline seeks to cut costs. They lost &#163;401 million in 2008 due in part to higher fuel costs, fewer high-dollar paying passengers and labor cost far above their competitors.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>281</score><crdate>6/16/2009 1:47:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-06-16T13:47:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50825</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/entertainment/l/50825/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mr. Rude is French and Flatulent for British TV]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zut alors! The popular British cartoon and television series &quot;Mr. Men&quot; has come up with a malodorous Mr. Rude who speaks with a bad French accent. &quot;Pardon me,&quot; says Mr. Rude in comedy Franglais as he breaks wind when his finger is pulled on a game played on the television show's website <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.mrmen.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.mrmen.com</a>.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>351</score><crdate>2/16/2008 5:20:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-16T05:20:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>16510</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/16510/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Serial Killers freed by Iranian court on the grounds that victim's activities were &quot;un-Islamic&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Iranian Supreme Court has vacated the murder convictions of a group of serial killers because their victims were engaging in un-Islamic activities. The victims all died gruesome deaths that were &quot;sanctioned&quot; by a local cleric.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>40</score><crdate>4/15/2007 5:25:36 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-15T17:25:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>92131</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/92131/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Iran was a democracy till Britain and the US over threw the goverment]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1951 Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh was elected prime minister of Iran. He became enormously popular in Iran after he nationalized Iran's oil reserves. Unfortunately thi$ up$et Britain who got Ei$enhower to work with them to pull off a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">coup</a>. History can teach us. Are we ready and willing to learn?]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>474</score><crdate>1/31/2009 11:22:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-01-31T23:22:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>91724</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/world/l/91724/1/</url><title><![CDATA[British Manners Proved Fatal on Titanic]]></title><description><![CDATA[British Passengers on the Titanic were much more likely to die than Americans who seem to have been happier to push their way to safety.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>286</score><crdate>1/29/2009 8:42:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-01-29T20:42:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36792</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/36792/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Busty British tourist barred from casino because of her 'offensive' breasts]]></title><description><![CDATA[A British tourist has been barred from a casino in New Zealand for upsetting fellow punters with her 'offensive' breasts. Thirty-three year old Helen Simpson from Nottingham, was wearing a low-cut black evening dress when a woman staff member at the Christchurch Casino told her to cover up or leave.]]></description><comments>18</comments><score>288</score><crdate>9/26/2007 11:33:22 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-26T11:33:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>90620</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/90620/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Islamic cleric Abu Hamza says Australians are boozers hooked on gambling and prostitution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Outspoken Islamic cleric Abu Hamza has branded Australians as boozers who are hooked on gambling and prostitution.<br/><br/>In another sermon broadcast over the internet, the Melbourne cleric urged followers to spread the word of Islam to save Australians.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>264</score><crdate>1/22/2009 8:16:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-01-22T20:16:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>101624</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/science/l/101624/1/</url><title><![CDATA[British scientists on course to become the first to produce synthetic human blood]]></title><description><![CDATA[British scientists are on course to become the first to create synthetic human blood from embryonic stem cells, it emerged today.<br/><br/>The ground-breaking project could provide an unlimited supply of blood for emergency transfusions free of the risk of infection.<br/><br/>Because stem cells multiply indefinitely, it would be possible to make enormous quantities, researchers said.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>276</score><crdate>3/23/2009 10:45:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-03-23T22:45:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>60871</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/world/l/60871/1/</url><title><![CDATA[British planners feared tea shortage after nuclear attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Never mind the radiation: British contingency planners are worried there would be a dramatic shortage of tea in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, recently declassified documents showed.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>321</score><crdate>5/6/2008 11:45:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-06T23:45:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>15114</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/15114/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Iran to release British sailors]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 15 British sailors and marines detained in Iran for nearly a fortnight have been formally pardoned and will be released immediately, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>28</score><crdate>4/4/2007 10:56:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-04T10:56:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>14556</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/14556/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Iran: Captured UK soldier calls for troops out of Iraq]]></title><description><![CDATA[TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran released Thursday what it says is a second letter from captured British sailor Faye Turney in which she criticizes British policy in Iraq.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>-14</score><crdate>3/29/2007 10:14:49 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-29T22:14:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>34931</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/34931/1/</url><title><![CDATA[British woman turns 110 years old]]></title><description><![CDATA[A British woman born in 1897 celebrated her 110th birthday in Godalming, England, attributing her old age to ingesting lots of salt.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>148</score><crdate>9/7/2007 12:27:45 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-07T12:27:45+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>51600</id><url>http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/51600/1/</url><title><![CDATA[US embassy in Belgrade attacked]]></title><description><![CDATA[Several hundred protesters have attacked the US and other embassies in Serbia's capital in anger at Western support for Kosovo's independence.<br/><br/>When I posted about the border posts being stormed I questioned whether there would be worse to come. 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